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Cuello trenzado

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  El patrón descargable para el Cuello Trenzado lo encuentras en Alicanta Knits .

Simple reversible apron/ Delantal reversible simple

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Last year I made all the Christmas gifts. Most of the women in the family got aprons (two had started vegetable gardens and one moved into her own place and has gotten into cooking), so it was the perfect excuse to make some cool stuff (my favorite was the  harvest apron  I designed for one of my sisters). This apron was for my mom who asked for something super simple and long, to cover her bottom half especially when watering.  En la última navidad, decidí hacer todos los regalos para mi familia. A la mayoría de las mujeres les hice delantales (dos hicieron huertas en sus casa y una se fue a vivir sola y desarrolló un gusto por la cocina), así que fue la ocasión perfecta para probar cosas nuevas (el  delantal para cosechar  que diseñé para una de mis hermanas fue mi favorito). Este lo hice para mi madre quien pidió algo simple y largo, para tapar su ropa, especialmente al regar.  Because of quarantine, I had to work with material I already had, so I c...

DIY Velvet dress/ Vestido de terciopelo (hazlo tu misma)

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I’ve had this stretch velvet for-e-ver and was terrified of using it with my old and very basic sewing machine. I didn’t trust that it would be able to sew this type of fabric, but it did! And it was easier than expected. I wanted to use the velvet for a simple dress, this is what I did… I decided to draft my own pattern using a skirt and shirt as templates. For the skirt portion, I folded the butcher paper in half, folded the skirt in half and placed it on the paper (not pictured). I made three marks (small white dots in first picture). The first at the end of the waist, past the hip. The second, on the fold line of the paper, right in the middle of the waist. The third mark for the bottom hem, about 9 inches above the hem line of the skirt. Then I drew a line from the waist mark on the fold to the mark outer hip mark and a second line from this point to the mark of the bottom hem.       To make the bottom even, I measured the length of the side and then replicated ...