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Sew Your Favorites-Tips on handy pieces you love

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  Find something you like just keep that piece and use it with everything... I make the long dresses by the method described with double folds 1. At this point you just cut out your dress so you will have a front and back piece exactly the same.   So you then cut a neckline a little lower so it is going to be the front. I have a separate Cowl neck piece I use on everything. I have a pocket piece I use on everything. This shape pocket can go in any side seam, or make no side seam quick pants and make this piece sewn together and flip and top stitch on top of pants lining up with side seam and leave opening for hand.  Still a great pocket I have a bigger pocket piece I use on coats. I have a burlap like piece of fabric on my wall to hang the pieces I use over and over..... collars, pockets, sleeves, cuffs I have a sleeve I use on everything ...unless I am doing my favorite cut out one back piece squared...cut in have and becomes two rectangles for front pieces...take two more rectangles
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What is Kitty Doing?.....Tiny stitch hand quilting...Traponto

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IMPOSSIBLE UNDERTAKING...SOMEONE STOP ME I was given this fabric that was already sewn into a Queen size top by sewing three pieces together Could I make it into a 5x5 childs quilt? Simple enough, but then it would be so nice it if the characters were 3 D.... In  my mind...Sure,  I could do that... UH Somebody stop me... that was over 2 weeks ago and I have worked on it every waking moment...  Fabric...cut to size  2 pieces..front and back Muslin and batting...cut same size... Sew on batting and muslin to the piece for the top Outline each figure through the sandwich and slice behind the figures and then stuff and hand stitch opening shut... Top  done... uhoh... how to sew the back on.... Two pieces together and then sew on the binding... now Hand quilt each figure First of all you need the right tools.... To hand sew a quilt bigger than your small desk top you need a quilting rack.   I DO NOT HAVE ONE.... I do not recommend what I am doing....  A rack is about $200 + -  I am in a tiny
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Everyone needs a Hibiscus Free Flowing Jacket

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  This is a true hibiscus or Rose of Sharon flower Free Flowing jacket.  As you can see as usual I paired a scarf of the leftover fabric with a scarf of the leftover slinky knit in red. To Look together your outfits can have a catchy pair of earrings, a scrunchy or braided fabric bracelet. I love this jacket with the feathers on it.  I satin stitched the edges of the chiffon jacket to give the simple appearance of serging. I believe the red slinky knit pullover with the red slinky knit pants are catchy with any jacket that has a spot of red. I made this slinky knit top to wear with the feather outfit .The other day.   Now with the new free flowing jacket, I have added slinky knit palazzo pants.    Note the bottom of the palazzo pants has a cuff to add length to my tops of my shoes.  I love the slink of these pants and they have nice pockets and a drawstring added to the elastic waste. I tucked the long sleeves of this jacket into the pockets to show the things I love about this style..
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Sewing the Stash Outfit

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  OUTFIT IDEAS Jacket, scarves (one same as jacket one contrast), earrings, facemask, 3D pockets on bottom of palazzo pants-solid t-shirt same contrast as color of solid color pants All the fabric I use does not come from G Street Fabrics, where I work.....  I also have a Spoonflower shop and this is one of my fabric designs.... This is printed chiffon- I will make one of my freeflowing jackets out of this... Along with the regular freeflowing jacket I made a scarf, scrunchie and earrings plus mask Matching earrings and mask from the same fabric. My favorite mask pattern has a filter pocket.  I will write the next blog when I make the matching masks for the next outfits. Earrings are our covered buttons from G and I buy the earring backs in bulk, and the elastic adjustable ties. Scrunchies from the same fabric, I use a black hair rubber band and just fold over the fabric and topstitch fast and easy. These two yellow fabrics came from GStreet Treasure Hunt Room.... I am going to make fl
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Light Cotton Jacket, Matching Design No Pattern

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  This was a lovely gift of two yards of fabric from my friend who went to Bali. I am proud of how I figured it out and also I had the perfect button hooks to match the fabric, wasting away in my button sewing box. It was a 2 yard piece of fabric with dark blue background and gold metallic design. When it was finished I took the scraps and made a mask and earrings.  Used every inch of this fabric. I needed something lightweight and cotton, so I picked up the piece and examined the print.  It had some lovely design that was in columns I could use for borders, but I could see it would take work to cut it out. The selvage was a nice print of gold, that I didn't want to lose.  I laid out the whole piece of fabric and figured how I could cut the front pieces and the back piece on a fold and utilize the border strips. When there wasn't quite enough of the strips I would block end them with the scraps. In my sewalongwithkitty.com blog this post explains taking a simple piece of fabric
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