Simple Simon and Company

Dresses· sewing

A Summer Dress

 How is summer break going for you?  The first week at our house was filled with sickies but I have two fingers crossed that we are out of the worst of it and on to summer break!  (And guess who was the lucky member of the family to get it twice.....um...yeah....me.) I actually made this dress a couple of weeks ago but am finally now posting about it.  It is a simple vintage-esque dress with a  full gathered skirt and cap sleeves. I pulled the pattern of a body draft I had done a month or ... View the Post

Riley Blake· Sew for Girls· Tutorials

A Cross-Stitched Collar Tutorial

If you know us you know that we are always making up some sort of pattern for our girls and that we have a definite signature style---vintage with a touch of modern.  So to gear up for Fabric Fest I made one of our very favorite dresses.  This style of dress is actually the first dress I ever drafted from scratch...using only Gracie's measurements...and yes, yes, I have made a million of them.  But never out of this fabric! This is a piece from Riley Blake's Hipster Line and I've been ... View the Post

Girls· sewing

A Cross-stitched Shirt

I really meant for this shirt to be in the Spring Look Book, but alas it didn't get there.  But maybe I should just be glad it got finished (and not in the projects of doom pile) and hopefully it will look just as cute with shorts, which reminds me....I have got to make this girl some shorts. Both liZ and I are pretty much in LOVE with anything cross-stitched right now (you may or may not see another similar project tomorrow) but the top was a fun sew.  And I like fun sews lately.... I made ... View the Post

Dresses

A Vintage Butterick Pattern—My $2.50 Dress—And A Confession

Ok. So here is another ginormous photo with me in it. (I promise this isn't going to be a regular thing.) Here is the story: Awhile ago I was at Wal-Mart and they were unloading some fabric that was all $2 a yard.  And I bought some.  (A lot actually.)  Including a yard of some heavy white stuff that is soft like velvet but with a cool, graphic, crushed pattern in it.Later that night I was looking though some patterns for myself and I found a vintage Butterick pattern.  This pattern to be ... View the Post

Girls· Sew for Girls· Tutorials

An Easy Swimming Suit Cover Up Tutorial

Things are about to get crazy around here. Ok maybe not girls-gone-wild crazy but tutorial-fun-and-projects-we've-been-dying-to-post kind of crazy. So I decided that if I want to share Gracie's swimsuit cover up (which has already been worn far more often than it should have been by June 3rd) then I better post it today before all the madness begins. I originally posted it over on the Terra's blog (one of the nicest people I've ever "met") but today I am reposting here to start off the ... View the Post