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    Hot! Circle Skirt Challenge Contributor Creations

    The “Bowled Over” Circle Skirt

    posted April 24, 2012 / 57 Comments

    The Facts  Fabric: Skirt: black polyester/rayon mix (?) from Goodwill charity shop $3.99, Shirt: men’s dress shirt also from Goodwill $5.99 Pattern: Based on [...]

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    Contributor Creations Green Challenge 2012 The Sew Weekly Challenges

    The “Green Top, ‘Green’ Skirt” Combo

    posted March 13, 2012 / 13 Comments

    The Facts Fabric: Green/orange patterned lycra from stash, Orange polyester crepe pillow case from Goodwill thrift store $1.99 Pattern: Top – Butterick 5497. Skirt [...]

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    Hot! Contributor Creations Refashion Challenge

    The “Refashioning for Dr Seuss, he speaks for the trees” Skirt

    posted February 29, 2012 / 38 Comments

    I was taking a week off, I was going to get well, To try to recuperate, but try not to smell. I would NOT [...]

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    Contributor Creations Down Under

    G’day From Lake Mendocino

    posted February 1, 2012 / 21 Comments

    The Facts Fabric: Cotton/poly blend (upcycled) Pattern: NewLook 6057 Year: 2011 Notions: thread white bias tape, invisible zipper Time to complete: off and on [...]

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    Hot! Contributor Creations Made This Look Challenge

    My Favorite Mod Dress aka The Branch Division Dress

    posted January 25, 2012 / 36 Comments

    Fabric: a thrifted polyester blouse/skirt set that’s been in my closet for years, waiting for the right upcycling moment to come along. The brand [...]

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    posted June 18, 2012 / 38 Comments

    I started writing in second person narrative because it felt most comfortable to me.  I hope it doesn’t come across as domineering, but rather [...]

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    More Diamond Jubilee Inspiration

    posted June 1, 2012 / 3 Comments

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    10 Things I’ve Learned: Cheryl

    posted May 29, 2012 / 8 Comments

    Tempest over at Fanbloomingtastic wrote a neat little piece on the ’10 Things Learned’ whilst participating in the Sew Weekly Challenges.  Seeing as that reflection is key to [...]

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The Sew Weekly began as Mena Trott's attempt to document the process of sewing all of her own clothes in 2010. In 2011, four other contributors (Debi Fry, Adey Lim, Veronica Darling & Sarah Gabbart) joined her and for 52 weeks, they sewed based on a particular weekly theme. In 2012, The Sew Weekly became a much larger group blog with over 130 contributors sewing along each week.

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