I'm really starting to get into this whole vintage thing.  Lately I can't seem to stay out of antique stores and my husband says I'm starting to dress like I stepped out of a time machine. Well that's vintage baby.  This Sew for Victory sew along has really gotten me in the mindset of less is more.  The 40's seemed like such a...

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Well I was going to do another Thriftin' Thursday post for ya all but all I had was some pillows I made using vintage fabric I scored at an antique store.  Hardly worthy of a full blog post and talk about a snooze fest.  Instead I was thinking about posting my plans for Rochelle's Sew for Victory 1940's inspired sew along.  I then...

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As some of you may have seen already Karen over at Did You Make That pulled 3 names out of the Sewlutions jar to check on their progress.  Wouldn't you know it that yours truly was one of the first names pulled.  If some of you aren't familiar Karen's awesome idea was to have everyone write down what their sewing goal was for the year. ...

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Well let's all take a little gander at this beauty... At first glance, beautiful is probably not the first thing that comes to ya'lls mind I bet.  I only picked this shirt off the Goodwill rack cuz I was like, What the hell is going on here? But when I looked closer a thing of beauty it quickly became...it was homemade!!  Someone made...

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