Week 16 of 2026

This week I sewed a summer dress -

Made using the cotton fabric I snowed dyed a few weeks ago.

Sewing is a learning experience for me, and I did learn a few new things. The pattern didn't have pockets, so I added slash pockets - I learned that slash pockets don't work with gathers, so the pockets stick out (fine for collecting eggs), pockets in the seam would have worked better.

I also learned how to install an invisible zipper - turns out it is the easiest way to install a zipper (I used an invisible zipper foot for sewing it).

The pattern is a Lutterloh pattern - #81 from supplement 321 (Summer 2021). I made the skirt with less width than called for, but I could have made it a lot narrower (it has too many gathers - an A-line skirt would look better, and look more like the pattern image).

Photos from Around -

Luckily planting in the garden is over a month away. Lots of work to come when the snow finishes melting, and it dries out (it flooded in August and never dried out before winter, so we weren't able to clean it up in the fall).

The coop has dried out a bit for the hens.

GingerSnap! has been hunting again.

He didn't get anything this time, but I need to make him a bright ruffle collar so the birds really see him.

All the best!♥︎