Chasing Coco

This was a fun and spontaneous project! I was hitting up the pattern sale at Joann's and browsing around at their fabric, like one does on a Thursday after work 😎 and I saw their doodles line. I usually don't find their fabric to be the best quality for apparel, my store is more quilting and fleece but I had seen a few makes online using their doodles fabric that were super cute and they had this pink unicorn print that I knew my nieces would love so I bought it totally on impulse! Here it is in my cart! It's a good thing there was also a pattern sale going on because I didn't have any patterns for the girls who are 2 and 4 years old. I picked up a few options and decided to make them M7344 , a simple dress with little raglan sleeves. I made top view B and bottom hem F (sleeveless with straight hem). Sizing & Alterations I will be honest and admit that I know nothing about sizing for kids patterns and very little about sizing for kids clothes. Than...

Last week I made the Ellie & Mac Lucky Girl top ( pattern can be purchased here ) with the split sleeve (style 1) and I really loved the outcome (see it here)  but of course, I also wanted to make the tie sleeve version (style 2). I was looking at the fabric I had available and most of it was double brushed poly (DBP) which doesn't look nice on the back side (usually it's white on the back, printed on one side only), so I knew I’d want to line my sleeves. Last week, I decided to make the split sleeve version because how I was going to construct the lined sleeve was still percolating a little bit but now, I was ready to go! Despite my plan to make more separates this year, I had 3 yards of the fabric I wanted to use and opted to make a dress. I can’t help it, I just love dresses! It’s one garment to have a whole new outfit. The E&M Lucky Girl has a dress option but it’s a sheath style and I decided I would prefer a bodice + skirt option. McCall’s 7313 is a patte...

One of my sewing goals this year is to make more separates instead of pretty dresses, to that aim, I made the Ellie & Mac Lucky Girl pattern as a top. I really like the many sleeve options that are in style right now. Originally, I wasn't going to buy this pattern because I felt like I could easily hack the pattern's sleeve options from other Ellie & Mac patterns , but then it went on sale and I thought I'd save myself the time. More sewing time is always better!   Fabric choice I used some ponte knit that I had leftover from the shirt I made my husband a few weeks ago, a green ponte knit from fabric.com and a new floral DBP from Cali Fabrics. I was a little worried about the ponte fabric having enough stretch because the pattern specifies 50% 4-way stretch and it only had 50% 2-way stretch (which is still pretty stretchy for a ponte!). For that reason, I decided it would be best to use as my main fabric and do the sleeves and bands all in the flor...