Merida progress

I worked on getting Merida mostly finished this weekend. Here she was on Friday: I had to get the other sleeve made and finished - I had all the pieces cut, so I figured it would be fairly easy, but it wasn't. I had a hard time getting them to look the same and be even - I need to stop doing that and start making things like that at ...

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Sleeves!!

So yesterday morning I had a little migraine and I took my medicine and ate my breakfast and usually after that, everything is cool. Well the medicine didn't do anything and all morning it kept getting worse and worse. I hadn't brought any more medicine with me because usually one dose is enough to at least last me through lunch. I tried to hold on til it was lunchtime so ...

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“Little” Merida

Some more progress on the "little" Merida dress. I keep calling it that in my head, it's not really little... just, it's not serious. So it becomes little Merida. The bottom hem was rolling up and exposing the crushed velvet right side. I thought that looked kinda neat. So I pinned the hem on the outside. I like it! I also got the sleeve pieces cut except the very top ...

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Random Stuff

Hey! I'm behind on posting. Here's what's been going on lately. Last week I made a dress for a friend for Halloween! It's not a great picture of it. The main part of the dress is a really neat, heavy matte knit that I really liked working with. My only issue was that I didn't have the best needle for it, so when I went to sew the main hem, ...

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