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Pilvi Coat

Pilvi Coat

I've shared my love for the Everyday Style book by Lotta Jansdotter on this blog before (you can read more about it here) but I just can't help it! I'm back again today to share another pattern from the book - the Pilvi Coat. Or the Piviot Coat as we sometimes call it, for some reason. I looked it up and I guess Pilvi means cloud in Finnish, but I'm afraid it means nothing to us. So sometimes we get it right and sometimes it's the Piviot. Regardless of it's name, we like the pattern! I've made two Pilvi coats....

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Linden Sweatshirt x 2!

Linden Sweatshirt x 2!

Check out our new Linden Sweatshirts! Connie and I were both excited to make new Lindens with two of our favorite new fabrics we have in the shop - organic fleece and indigo knit. Connie's Linden mixes up the Grainline Studio pattern a bit by using the length of View B but the sleeves of View A. She skipped the cuff bands and just hemmed the sleeves. The fabric she chose is our Organic Cotton Fleece in Dusk. She put the super soft side on the inside to give it a classic sweatshirt feel. The fleece was very easy to...

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Garment Lecture Notes

Garment Lecture Notes

A few weeks ago we hosted a Garment Lecture from Jean Sando in our shop. We had an amazing group of people join us, but we know even more of you wished you could be there! We thought we would share some highlights from the evening with you here. All Bodies are different Jean started the evening talking about her background in Victorian literature. In the Victorian era clothes were being made for people, it wasn't possible to purchase them "off the rack" and there weren't standard sizes like we have today. You don't find women in the Victorian era...

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