Good morning, kittens! I'm taking a break from Kibbe ruminations today to share my latest project, the Autumn Warmer sweater from the latest issue (05/2018) of Ottobre Woman. This was the la...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2018/12/miss-lotta-bundles-up-ottobre-052018.html
Good morning, my dear marmosets! Last week, I posted about the Kibbe System and my incipient plans to overhaul my wardrobe. Your interest in this process--and the fact that anyone still reads m...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2018/12/sewing-kibbe-planning-soft-dramatic.html
Good evening, kittens! Tonight, I don't want to share my latest project (which is good, because it's a white sweater that I promptly spilled spaghetti sauce on), but instead take a deep dive in...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2018/11/sewing-kibbe-on-style-changes-style.html
Good afternoon, kittens! This past weekend, I turned 33, a delightfully palindromic age that required quite a bit of celebration. There was Black Forest Cake, a bird-festooned pink ...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2018/09/miss-marguerite-blows-out-candles-sew.html
Good afternoon, kittens! Somehow, it's been a year since I last blogged. Well, I say somehow. We all know the actual how of it, don't we? A wee bouncing bundle of joy who just turned 10...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2018/07/miss-babette-and-rose-imposters-burda.html
Good afternoon, kittens! Life is in full on baby mode at Chez Fancy. Our guest room is mid-transformation into a nursery, we spent an absurd amount on the world's safest car seat, and box...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2017/07/cashmerette-concord-tee-maternity_16.html
Good afternoon, kittens! As my five month lapse in blogging may tell you, sewing dropped low on my priority list in 2017. This has been an eventful year, in both extraordinary and harro...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2017/06/miss-vesper-makes-her-debut-butterick.html
Good evening, kittens! There's time for one more 2016 blog post, right? We originally had grand plans for tonight, but after two straight weeks of travel, decided to plant ourselves on th...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/12/miss-bernadette-decks-halls-butterick.html
Good evening, kittens! It's hibernation season, down here in Texas. We've had a surprisingly chilly beginning to winter*, the kind of weather that demands tights and coats and copious amount...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/12/miss-georgia-knows-these-woods-well.html
Kittens, this was a week. You know the kind. Everything with a plug breaks, deer jump into the road right as you drive by, and you discover that the night shift Emergency Room doctor kn...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/10/miss-hildy-gets-promotion-knipmode.html
Good afternoon, my dear wombats! Over the last year, I've alluded to my evolving sense of style. It's something everyone goes through, of course. Your body changes, you get older, you move. ...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/09/miss-margot-could-be-your-silver.html
Good afternoon, kittens! This weekend was filled with Hitchcock movies, turning plums into plum cakes, and a fair bit of sewing. After a summer of illness and calamity, we're reveling in th...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/08/miss-gloria-and-swinging-vines-papercut.html
Hello, my loves! After six years of blogging, quiet summers have become something of a tradition on Idle Fancy, haven't they? The temperature skyrockets and all I want to do is wear yoga pan...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/08/miss-gloria-feels-heat-papercut-sway.html
In sewing, mistakes are inevitable. Perhaps you accidentally clip a seam allowance and the seam, or you decide to skip interfacing this one time. Some overzealous scissor wielding or a too h...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/06/miss-irene-and-yankee-doodle-dandy.html
Kittens, meet my white whale. For the entirety of my adult sewing career, I have longed for the perfect button-front shirt. This is, obviously, a running theme with me. I believe in th...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/06/miss-delphine-meets-her-match-mccalls.html
There are times when sewing is more than a craft. In graduate school, this hobby was something I could conquer and control within a set time frame. That last part was particularly impor...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/06/miss-irene-lights-up-night-mccalls-7351.html
Good evening, kittens! After too many weekends on the road, Sam and I are spending this one firmly ensconced at home. The NBA Finals are on TV, both dogs are napping by the back door, and an...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/04/miss-irene-is-for-birds-mccalls-7351.html
It's remarkable how quickly things change in the sewing world. Of all the sub-cultures I'm involved with, this industry is by far the most responsive to changing consumer demands. In just th...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/04/miss-iris-digs-for-victory-mccalls-7351.html
When I picked up sewing again, back in graduate school, it was for one reason only. I adore clothes. That's practically heresy, these days. We live in the age of capsule wardrobes and Mark Zu...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/04/miss-charlotte-rides-at-night-knipmode.html
Good afternoon, lovelies! If the daffodils brightening my kitchen are any sign, spring had officially arrived in Texas. As y'all know by now, my wardrobe obsessions are decidedly seasonal. T...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/03/miss-iris-checks-it-out-mccalls-7351.html
Hello there, kittens! After six weeks without blogging, thanks to various travels and a shoulder injury that made sewing hazardous, I have things to show you. Prepare for a barrage of Idle F...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/03/miss-veronica-drafts-on-potential.html
As a rule, I don't make New Year's Resolutions. They tend not to work for my personality. I am easily distracted by new discoveries and ideas--Oh, look! There's a squirrel!--which means smal...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/02/miss-elise-is-all-askew-knipmode-102015.html
Happy New Year, kittens! Admittedly, I am twelve days late on that score. There are any number of legitimate reasons for my brief blogging absence, but honestly, it comes down to one fact: I...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2016/01/miss-georgina-changes-direction-style.html
Good evening, kittens! Happy December! Honestly, I can't believe that sentence is applicable. How is it December already? Autumn slipped right by me, a whirl of pie making, furious writing...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2015/12/miss-lenore-wraps-up-her-year-appleton.html
Good evening, friends! As you know, I've been on a knit sewing kick lately. After years of using mostly wovens, my wardrobe is now bursting with handmade, stretchy garments. Fueling this obsessio...
http://www.idlefancy.com/2015/10/miss-wren-attends-ballet-giveaway.html