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    Picture Smocking on Corduroy, my Solution to Carpool Line Entertainment.

    Its been a minute since I’ve done a blog post. Life has been wild around here! We’ve purchased land (nineteen acres) in my hometown and are slowly starting to take the steps toward building a house. I’ve found myself spending a ton of time in carpool lines with Robby and Maria in different schools and keeping up with John Luke is a full time job….see the picture below for his personality in-a-nut-shell. I’ve discovered the best way to spend my time in the carpool line is smocking…otherwise I get sucked into social media and yucky news. Soooo these outfits are the fruits of the carpool. I’m going to start with…

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    Fall 2021: What to Make and What to Buy.

    My mom told me this is her favorite of my annual posts…so I had to make another 🙂 I can’t sew it all. I’ve tried but I just can’t. Below you will see a graphic of what I’ll be making and what I’ll be sewing for this fall and winter. Looking at the graphic above, the items on the top are pieces I’ll be buying. I love Peter Pan collared shirts but I cannot make them as fast as my kids can destroy them. I also prefer them in knit but I don’t prefer sewing with knit. For me, purchasing staple knit pieces for the kids makes the most sense,…