Double #memademay today! Core bias skirt from @somanualstudio and my trusty #SophieHood from @petiteknit ✨ Don't look too closely, everything is covered in cat hair 😌
It's been stormy but the sun is on the horizon 🌻
#memademay2026 #sewing #memademay17
Another gingham dress for #memademay 💙 I spent Saturday at the vintage market in Delft, so blue seemed to fit!
This is another Anabelle dress, but this time I kept the skirt and ruffle 🪡
#memademay2026 #sewing #anabelledress #delft
Gathered gingham skirt for #memademay day 7 because I love anything yarn dyed and live in swishy skirts🌞
Three gathered rectangles, each 2x the one before with elastic, plus pockets of course! Final slide is @kamauj868 acting like I am heading off to the war when we split up for errands 🫡
#memademay2026
#sewing #memade
#memademay day 3! We got exactly 3 days of summer weather this week and it was glorious 🌞
This is my Anabelle dress by @patternsbypatterncos which is one of my favorite dress patterns. I have a process video in an earlier post from sometime ago, and this is one I wear on heavy rotation in the summer. I changed the skirt to a gathered one with 2 tiers, and made tie straps! Not pictured is the overflowing shopping cart with bbq items, because we never waste a sunny day.
#memademay2026 #memade wardrobe #sewing #patternsbypatterncos
For #memademay day 2, my self drafted cotton skirt and the @patternsbypatterncos Paulette blouse (which is a free pattern!!✨) I omitted the ruffle and lengthened it to have a deep hem (also in cotton). Both of these were wearable toiles. The scarf is the @castawayyarnshop simple triangle scarf.
I wear these on repeat so if you see me in them multiple times, look away, that's my business 😌
#memademay #memademay2026 #patternsbypatterncos @patterncos_
Happy #memademay!!!!
I have absolutely loved Spring in Rotterdam 💗
This is the @castawayyarnshop easiest triangle scarf in garter stitch. It was a really relaxing project, and I used 100g (2 skeins) of DK merino wool on 4mm needles. No counting! No tracking! Just mindless increases and knitting! It was perfect.
#memademay #memademay2026
A self drafted skirt in white cotton. I've been seeing the pintuck petticoat vibe and loving it, so of course I had to make one. A lot of math was involved to get the tucks properly arranged but it all came together 🎉
The blouse is cotton voile from Madewell, I got it years ago for $0.07 (!!!!) and the boots are thrifted.
Oh, and I promptly sat on something pink whilst on the skirt's maiden voyage luckily, the stain came out 😤
#memade #doendupe #sewing #rotterdam
Babushka was out and spent the sunny Saturday taking long walks and rifling through other people's old stuff.
I knitted this bonnet in a cherry red wool left over from my #sophiescarf that I'm also wearing here! Gotta keep these immigrant ears warm, they've never gotten used to the wind.
#ellibonnet #knitting
Dead inside but I'm still knitting 🧶
Here's my version of the #SophieHood by @petiteknit in the wrong yarn weight on too small needles. Did some math (yuck) and I was able to do it in a DK weight yarn on 4mm needles!
The skirt is also one of my own makes: a bias cut maxi in viscose twill. Pretty warm and I've been wearing it a lot this winter. I can't remember the last time I wore jeans and honestly I feel great about it.
The #sophiescarf!! I made this scarf with the sole purpose of looking like a Victorian street urchin at Christmastime 🎩 I also unravelled it four times before it looked anything remotely scarf-like, but as a sewist and an illustrator, starting over means nothing to me at this point 🤣 at least with knitting you can reuse the materials!
Thank you to my knitting bestie @hildurpetursdottir who has been my long distance knitting teacher, and didn't laugh when I proudly showed her something that looked like a raccoon had crawled into a box of yarn 🧶
I used icelandic merino wool from the mulesing free brand Kambgarn.
#petiteknit
Some quilted cushions to use up my Christmas fabric scraps! This winter I've been making a lot of jam, pumpkin pies and plum tortes. I'm also learning how to knit! My hands are a mess 🫠 Everything I love is giving me carpal tunnel, help 🫳🏽
Happy December!! My furry children love to hang out under my tree so this year I made them a quilted tree skirt. It's a self drafted pattern, with some sawtooth star blocks and handmade bias binding. I doubled up the batting to make it extra cushy for them, and added ties for no real reason other than the fact that Georgie loves to chew them. 🐈⬛ They love to hang out under there and play! The bottom of our tree is full of ornaments they can play with, including a dozen jingle bells 🔔 My tree has also been up since the week after Halloween 🎃
#treeskirt #quiltedtreeskirt #sewing #quilting
