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Don’t you love it when a project turns out better than you had imagined?

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Don’t you love it when a project turns out better than you had imagined?

That happened with this skirt! I had an idea of how it would look, but seeing it finished and on, I absolutely LOVE the finished skirt! The fabric was purchased from Hancock Fabrics, and I found it on the clearance table. Never under estimate clearance!  I purchased 1 1/2 yards. Here it is unfolded and laid out. You can see that the stripes are only one side of the fabric. As soon as I saw the fabric, I knew that I wanted to make a circle skirt with it. I used the same method for this women’s circle skirt, that...

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Hey y’all! Heather here

PietraPants SewingTutorials Wovens

Hey y’all! Heather here

Today I want to share a tutorial for adding an invisible zipper to our Pietra Pants. I love this pattern because it’s the best of both worlds, pants-wise; a clean, flat front and a gathered elastic waist at the back for comfort. In order to make them easy to get on and off, we built a lot of elastic gathered ease in the back. As a result, the back is gathered a bit more than a pair of pants that have elastic gathering all the way around. The downside of this is that it makes grading between more than two...

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