beauty4ashes

Over Christmas, there was little sewing happening around here, since we had my parents here, visiting from Norway. It was a fun time of ...

My three-year old daughter has decided she loves wearing skirts. Since this is a new thing, she only actually had one skirt, a full circle-s...

I think the last time I went to have clothes made by a Guinean tailor was back in 2009. I wasn't very happy with the results back then...

I made these several months ago and finally got around to blogging them! My son really likes to wear these pants, as they are sooo soft and ...

As a mostly self-taught home sewist, I find most of my inspiration in sewing blogs written by people that live in a very different world tha...

Once upon a time, it must've been over a year ago, I started prepping the pattern pieces of McCall's 6554. I can not remember wh...

  About a year ago, I decided to rip apart a well-worn over-the-shoulder bag my mother got me in Italy. I loved the shape of it, but ...