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I started another knit dress while I was on a zoom call with another Locals community this afternoon. If I cut the skirt after dinner, I can wear it to church tomorrow. It's sort of patriotic with the stars for Independence Day.

Making the bodice was a a test to see how the fit of this pattern is (brand I've never tried before) and to see if my corrections to fix the center front hem weirdness I've seen on all the other versions out there worked. So far so good!

I'll give full review and more construction details later.

Anyone else doing any sewing this weekend or have plans to?

#FridayPatternCompany #LucidaDress

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I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild

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I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild

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We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild

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September 09, 2025

I finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.

Wawak interfacing is excellent.

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