Done and Done: The flamingo Simplicity 1873

If you’ve followed me for any amount of time, you will know that Simplicity 1873 is probably my favourite pattern. In fact, I first made it before I even started blogging. I made it later, as the failed green plaid dress. I succeeded later, in making another white and fuchsia dress for a wedding/graduation (I know what I like!). Most recently, I made myself a pink sequined version for my champagne birthday. … Read More Done and Done: The flamingo Simplicity 1873

Done and Done: The banana Kalle tunic

“Sam, we get it. You really like Kalles.” 

I promise this will be the last one (for a while) and I don’t have tons tons to say about since I’ve written extensively about my love of this pattern.

I had originally planned on this being a Kalle shirt-dress, but after realizing I didn’t love my sailboats version  as much as I expected, I decided to chop this one off to a tunic length, too. What I didn’t remember, until I had finished the whole dang thing – bias binding and all – was that I had shortened both of my other Kalles by two inches.
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