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Me-Made-May’15 Pledge & Sewing Plans

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I, Kyla of lifebyky.com, sign up as a participant of Me-Made-May ’15. I endeavor to wear each of my me-made items at least once throughout the month of May 2015. Yay! This will be my first time participating. I don’t have enough me-made items to wear something every day, so I’m challenging myself to wear each of the ones I have made at least once throughout the month. That and getting rid of the ones I don’t want to wear ever… because I’m pretty sure there are at least a few of those in the mix :/ Although I know Me-Made-May isn’t meant to be about making things, here are a few things coming down the pipeline – a couple of which may or may not happen in May :) No stress sewing here – if I knew the meaning of stress sewing I’m pretty sure my jeans that I started in what – October? – would be a little farther along :) Pattern | Fabric Pattern | Fabric | Inspiration Pattern | Fabric 1 + 2 | …

Casual Friday: Union St. Tee

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Do you have casual Fridays? I don’t, but here’s a little piece of casual sewing on Friday anyway! :) As you can probably tell, these photos were taken on the same day as my bird top. Gotta take advantage of the time and the weather when I have it :) (don’t mind the pups… poor Finny doesn’t get to win very often) Fabric: This was another knit from my knit fix way back when :) It’s a really soft, lightweight knit. It was fun to work with, although super slippery and kind of a pain to keep a hold of when I was sewing the neckline. Pattern: Hey June Union St. Tee. I’m pretty sure the sentiment about this pattern is consistent across the blogsphere – it’s a wonderful pattern! It’s a simple top, but the directions are great. It was my first time with a v-neck, and it turned out a lot easier than I was imagining. The fabric didn’t have a lot of stretch, so I sized up to the medium and I think it …

Put A Bird On It: Vintage McCall’s Edition

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I have to admit, when the voting came around for this month’s TMS challenge, I believe I voted for “Put a fox on it”. Yes, there are some adorable fox prints out there… but I’m pretty the majority had it right on this one in selecting birds! :) Plus, I already had bird fabric in my stash from months ago! I got it back when we were living in Wyoming, shortly before we left. I had to travel to Utah to take my California pharmacy licensure exam (somehow this was the closest testing site) :/, so after the test I dragged Danny to A Fashionable Stitch back when she had her brick & mortar store open. It was an adorable place and I couldn’t pass up this beautiful cotton voile. I told myself it was my celebratory gift for passing my exam (even though I didn’t hear the results for months… I told myself I could use it as soon as I found out I passed… so considering I passed and have been working for …

Sunday Sew Love: 5 April

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First things first… check out that picture: “Kyla, it’s just the Easter morning sky” you say. Well, yes… but that right there is the Easter morning sky… unedited… with no annoying black dot in the middle of the picture! Hooray! I finally got a cleaning kit for my camera. $8 vs. hundreds… I’m so glad I didn’t send it in to get professionally cleaned. At least this time it worked… I shouldn’t gloat too much or next time it may not :) But at least for now, it’s starting out to be a great day. HAPPY EASTER by the way! I’m hoping for no rain so we can do our brunch festivities outdoors, but I’m pretty sure that’s not on the weatherman’s agenda. We shall see… So this week is all about the details… ogle with me, will you… (top/left) Offsquare Winter Blazer | (top/right) Thread Theory Comfiest Jeans (bottom/left) See Kate Sew Soho Blouse | (bottom/right) Sewn by Elizabeth Relaxed Plantain Until next time,

Monday Sunday Sew Love

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Well maybe one of these days I’ll get my days straight! :) So here’s what’s on my sewing table right now… I’m completely in love with this fabric, but I’m about halfway through and I’m not sure it was a good fabric-pattern match. :/ We’ll see how it finishes up… Exciting sewing tidbit! I won one of the prize packs from the Crazy Dog Lady Sewing Challenge! Wahoo! The winners were completely random, but I will take it! :) See all of the makes here and here. They are super impressive! So here’s the real reason we’re here: Lovely x 4! (top/left) Threaded Crochet Lace Midi Dress | (right) Sewing and So On Best Summer Dress (bottom/left) Handmade by Carolyn Chanin Tank Top | (bottom/center) Clipped Curves Stripe Renfrew Hope you have a great week! Until next time,