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A DRESS A DAY
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAY Just so we're clear: I freaking love this dress. So far I've made it twice, and if I am ever in my sewing room while the sun is up, I will take a picture or two of the ones that I've completed. (I also have two more cut out and half-sewn.) Here is why this dress is near-perfect: 1. The collar is adorable.ERIN_SEWING
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. TEN REASONS SKIRTS ARE BETTER THAN PANTS 1. Drawing your pants legs back from someone in disgust as you pass them is insufficiently scornful.2. Studies have shown that wearing skirts is 90% effective in preventing VPL (visible panty line).3. Ditto for "plumber's butt," "whale tail,"and "camel
THE HUNDRED DRESSES: DAY 100 And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses-the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it.I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: I don’t know if I ever postedthis one:
FREE PATTERN FROM THE V&A! Broadly speaking American sizes are one size different to UK. So UK 10-12-14 is approx US 8-10-12 or if you’re used to BurdaWOF sizes, its a 36-38-40.The pattern instructions gives sizing in cms, but to convert into inches thats:UK 10 – B32.5, W25, H34.5 UK 12 – B34, W26.5, H36 hipsUK 14 – B36, W28, H38The V&A has a great little site DON'T WEAR GREEN TARLETAN DRESSES Don't Wear Green Tarletan Dresses. Attention has very frequently been called to the presence of large amounts of arsenic in green tarlatan, which has given rise so many times to dangerous symptoms of poisoning when made into dresses and worn, so that it is very rare now to see a green tarlatan dress. This fabric is still used, however, to a JANE TISE PATTERN AKA "BEST MIDRIFF EVER" But a couple quick Googles turned up that she was one of the founders of Esprit, back in the day! And that Esprit was called The Plain Jane Dress Company first, which, while cute and having that fakey-homespun feel of the late sixties/early seventies, probably didn't have the marketing ooomph that "Esprit de Corp" had. Or the little inherentpun.
WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW PATTERNS AGAIN So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?):. I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns."Cool," I thought. (Insert ominous music here.) I blithely entered my Paypal information and WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?): I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns. "Cool," I thought. (InsertA DRESS A DAY
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAY Just so we're clear: I freaking love this dress. So far I've made it twice, and if I am ever in my sewing room while the sun is up, I will take a picture or two of the ones that I've completed. (I also have two more cut out and half-sewn.) Here is why this dress is near-perfect: 1. The collar is adorable.ERIN_SEWING
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. TEN REASONS SKIRTS ARE BETTER THAN PANTS 1. Drawing your pants legs back from someone in disgust as you pass them is insufficiently scornful.2. Studies have shown that wearing skirts is 90% effective in preventing VPL (visible panty line).3. Ditto for "plumber's butt," "whale tail,"and "camel
THE HUNDRED DRESSES: DAY 100 And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses-the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it.I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: I don’t know if I ever postedthis one:
FREE PATTERN FROM THE V&A! Broadly speaking American sizes are one size different to UK. So UK 10-12-14 is approx US 8-10-12 or if you’re used to BurdaWOF sizes, its a 36-38-40.The pattern instructions gives sizing in cms, but to convert into inches thats:UK 10 – B32.5, W25, H34.5 UK 12 – B34, W26.5, H36 hipsUK 14 – B36, W28, H38The V&A has a great little site DON'T WEAR GREEN TARLETAN DRESSES Don't Wear Green Tarletan Dresses. Attention has very frequently been called to the presence of large amounts of arsenic in green tarlatan, which has given rise so many times to dangerous symptoms of poisoning when made into dresses and worn, so that it is very rare now to see a green tarlatan dress. This fabric is still used, however, to a JANE TISE PATTERN AKA "BEST MIDRIFF EVER" But a couple quick Googles turned up that she was one of the founders of Esprit, back in the day! And that Esprit was called The Plain Jane Dress Company first, which, while cute and having that fakey-homespun feel of the late sixties/early seventies, probably didn't have the marketing ooomph that "Esprit de Corp" had. Or the little inherentpun.
WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW PATTERNS AGAIN So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?):. I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns."Cool," I thought. (Insert ominous music here.) I blithely entered my Paypal information and WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?): I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns. "Cool," I thought. (Insert BOOKS – A DRESS A DAY The lovely people at Chronicle Books sent me a copy of Sunday Sews, by Theresa Gonzalez recently, and it’s a beautiful book.I would love to live in the perpetual Sunday of this book, where everything is suffused in a kind of mid-morning sunlight and you still have hours and hours left to get through all your weekend errands and projects before Game of Thrones comes on.THE HUNDRED DRESSES
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-bePATTERN STORIES
Here we present four stellar graduates demonstrating what they learned in our best-selling How To Look Like You’re Listening While Thinking Of Completely Unrelated Things course—available as a seminar on three long-playing records!. In this course, you’ll learn how to: keep an attentive, thoughtful look on your face for up to three hoursstraight
100DRESSES – A DRESS A DAY The Hundred Dresses: Day 100. September 10, 2013. Erin. 30 Comments. And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses -the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it. I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit:A DRESS A DAY
This is the Rushcutter dress again—this pattern is definitely one of my favorites now, even though I’m convinced I look faintly ridiculous in it. (Actually, “Faintly Ridiculous” would be a great title for an autobiography.) This is some old Marc Jacobs stripe denim/canvas—it’s plenty heavy, either way. QUICK MASK HACK: ADD A NOSE WIRE WITH PIPING! Here’s how to do it: Cut out your mask pieces (fabric and lining) and sew the center seam of your mask as directed. Cut a piece of piping long enough to go the whole top edge of the mask: Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wireINTO
A DRESS A DAY
A dress, nearly every day. Salt: No, you have to maintain an air of mystery, like this. Turn your head, just until you can see your right shoulder blade, or your neck cramps, whichever comes first. A NEW FAVORITE DRESS, AND A NEW FAVORITE SIZE. The more eagle-eyed among you will notice that this pattern is a half-size pattern, and so that Simplicity 1577 is, too. Half-sizes are my new favorite, favorite, favorite thing, because, wonders of wonders — I don’t have to alter these half-size patterns. Not one bit, not one jot. It turns out that (unsurprisingly, since I AM a middle-aged FREE PATTERN FROM THE V&A! Broadly speaking American sizes are one size different to UK. So UK 10-12-14 is approx US 8-10-12 or if you’re used to BurdaWOF sizes, its a 36-38-40.The pattern instructions gives sizing in cms, but to convert into inches thats:UK 10 – B32.5, W25, H34.5 UK 12 – B34, W26.5, H36 hipsUK 14 – B36, W28, H38The V&A has a great little site – I seem to remember there were some vintage PROM TIME (CIRCA 1989) Prom Time (circa 1989) It's prom time, isn't it? I am starting to see prom stories in the news, and folks on the various sewing lists I'm on are starting to post their war stories of sewing dresses for their daughters so I thought I'd dig up the photo of the great dress my mom made for me. My mom has actually made me two prom dresses; theA DRESS A DAY
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAY Just so we're clear: I freaking love this dress. So far I've made it twice, and if I am ever in my sewing room while the sun is up, I will take a picture or two of the ones that I've completed. (I also have two more cut out and half-sewn.) Here is why this dress is near-perfect: 1. The collar is adorable.THE HUNDRED DRESSES
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be APRIL 2020 – A DRESS A DAY Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wire INTO the piping. Just poke that sucker in between two stitches! Skoosh it through the piping, like you were putting elastic or a drawstring cord through a casing.ERIN_SEWING
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. TEN REASONS SKIRTS ARE BETTER THAN PANTS 1. Drawing your pants legs back from someone in disgust as you pass them is insufficiently scornful.2. Studies have shown that wearing skirts is 90% effective in preventing VPL (visible panty line).3. Ditto for "plumber's butt," "whale tail,"and "camel
THE HUNDRED DRESSES: DAY 100 And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses-the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it.I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: I don’t know if I ever postedthis one:
DRESSADAY_LOGO
Visit the post for more. I just read “The Secret Lives of Dresses” and I fell in love with the characters and storyline. WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW PATTERNS AGAIN So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?):. I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns."Cool," I thought. (Insert ominous music here.) I blithely entered my Paypal information and JANE TISE PATTERN AKA "BEST MIDRIFF EVER" But a couple quick Googles turned up that she was one of the founders of Esprit, back in the day! And that Esprit was called The Plain Jane Dress Company first, which, while cute and having that fakey-homespun feel of the late sixties/early seventies, probably didn't have the marketing ooomph that "Esprit de Corp" had. Or the little inherentpun.
A DRESS A DAY
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAY Just so we're clear: I freaking love this dress. So far I've made it twice, and if I am ever in my sewing room while the sun is up, I will take a picture or two of the ones that I've completed. (I also have two more cut out and half-sewn.) Here is why this dress is near-perfect: 1. The collar is adorable.THE HUNDRED DRESSES
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be APRIL 2020 – A DRESS A DAY Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wire INTO the piping. Just poke that sucker in between two stitches! Skoosh it through the piping, like you were putting elastic or a drawstring cord through a casing.ERIN_SEWING
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. TEN REASONS SKIRTS ARE BETTER THAN PANTS 1. Drawing your pants legs back from someone in disgust as you pass them is insufficiently scornful.2. Studies have shown that wearing skirts is 90% effective in preventing VPL (visible panty line).3. Ditto for "plumber's butt," "whale tail,"and "camel
THE HUNDRED DRESSES: DAY 100 And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses-the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it.I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: I don’t know if I ever postedthis one:
DRESSADAY_LOGO
Visit the post for more. I just read “The Secret Lives of Dresses” and I fell in love with the characters and storyline. WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW PATTERNS AGAIN So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?):. I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns."Cool," I thought. (Insert ominous music here.) I blithely entered my Paypal information and JANE TISE PATTERN AKA "BEST MIDRIFF EVER" But a couple quick Googles turned up that she was one of the founders of Esprit, back in the day! And that Esprit was called The Plain Jane Dress Company first, which, while cute and having that fakey-homespun feel of the late sixties/early seventies, probably didn't have the marketing ooomph that "Esprit de Corp" had. Or the little inherentpun.
PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAY Only four pieces sounds like a bad deal when it's a box of See's, but when it's a pattern, it sounds pretty nice (especially to me because I'm still wrestling with Simplicity 2180, and by "wrestling" I mean "sobbing over with a seam ripper that is glowing red from friction").. Like with this great pattern from Michelle at OldPatterns.com (which, by the way, has had a major update, includingPATTERN STORIES
Here we present four stellar graduates demonstrating what they learned in our best-selling How To Look Like You’re Listening While Thinking Of Completely Unrelated Things course—available as a seminar on three long-playing records!. In this course, you’ll learn how to: keep an attentive, thoughtful look on your face for up to three hoursstraight
MAY 2020 – A DRESS A DAY 1 post published by Erin during May 2020. Here we present four stellar graduates demonstrating what they learned in our best-selling How To Look Like You’re Listening While Thinking Of Completely Unrelated Things course—available as a seminar on three long-playing records!. In this course, you’ll learn how to: 100DRESSES – A DRESS A DAY The Hundred Dresses: Day 100. September 10, 2013. Erin. 30 Comments. And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses -the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it. I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: QUICK MASK HACK: ADD A NOSE WIRE WITH PIPING! Here’s how to do it: Cut out your mask pieces (fabric and lining) and sew the center seam of your mask as directed. Cut a piece of piping long enough to go the whole top edge of the mask: Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wireINTO
A DRESS A DAY
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PROM TIME (CIRCA 1989) Prom Time (circa 1989) It's prom time, isn't it? I am starting to see prom stories in the news, and folks on the various sewing lists I'm on are starting to post their war stories of sewing dresses for their daughters so I thought I'd dig up the photo of the great dress my mom made for me. My mom has actually made me two prom dresses; the YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PRETTY You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked“female”.
DON'T WEAR GREEN TARLETAN DRESSES Don't Wear Green Tarletan Dresses. Attention has very frequently been called to the presence of large amounts of arsenic in green tarlatan, which has given rise so many times to dangerous symptoms of poisoning when made into dresses and worn, so that it is very rare now to see a green tarlatan dress. This fabric is still used, however, to aA DRESS A DAY
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAYA DRESS A DAY BLOGNEW DRESS A DAYA NEW DRESS A DAYONE DRESS A DAYDAY DRESS GOWNSLIGHT CHIFFON DAY DRESS Just so we're clear: I freaking love this dress. So far I've made it twice, and if I am ever in my sewing room while the sun is up, I will take a picture or two of the ones that I've completed. (I also have two more cut out and half-sewn.) Here is why this dress is near-perfect: 1. The collar is adorable.THE HUNDRED DRESSES
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be APRIL 2020 – A DRESS A DAY Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wire INTO the piping. Just poke that sucker in between two stitches! Skoosh it through the piping, like you were putting elastic or a drawstring cord through a casing.ERIN_SEWING
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. TEN REASONS SKIRTS ARE BETTER THAN PANTS 1. Drawing your pants legs back from someone in disgust as you pass them is insufficiently scornful.2. Studies have shown that wearing skirts is 90% effective in preventing VPL (visible panty line).3. Ditto for "plumber's butt," "whale tail,"and "camel
THE HUNDRED DRESSES: DAY 100 And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses-the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it.I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: I don’t know if I ever postedthis one:
DRESSADAY_LOGO
Visit the post for more. I just read “The Secret Lives of Dresses” and I fell in love with the characters and storyline. WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW PATTERNS AGAINSIMPLICITY SEWING PATTERNSBUTTERICK SEWING PATTERNSFREE PRINTABLE SEWING PATTERNSONLINE SEWING PATTERNSONLINE SEWING PATTERNS So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?):. I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns."Cool," I thought. (Insert ominous music here.) I blithely entered my Paypal information and JANE TISE PATTERN AKA "BEST MIDRIFF EVER" But a couple quick Googles turned up that she was one of the founders of Esprit, back in the day! And that Esprit was called The Plain Jane Dress Company first, which, while cute and having that fakey-homespun feel of the late sixties/early seventies, probably didn't have the marketing ooomph that "Esprit de Corp" had. Or the little inherentpun.
A DRESS A DAY
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAYA DRESS A DAY BLOGNEW DRESS A DAYA NEW DRESS A DAYONE DRESS A DAYDAY DRESS GOWNSLIGHT CHIFFON DAY DRESS Just so we're clear: I freaking love this dress. So far I've made it twice, and if I am ever in my sewing room while the sun is up, I will take a picture or two of the ones that I've completed. (I also have two more cut out and half-sewn.) Here is why this dress is near-perfect: 1. The collar is adorable.THE HUNDRED DRESSES
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be APRIL 2020 – A DRESS A DAY Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wire INTO the piping. Just poke that sucker in between two stitches! Skoosh it through the piping, like you were putting elastic or a drawstring cord through a casing.ERIN_SEWING
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. TEN REASONS SKIRTS ARE BETTER THAN PANTS 1. Drawing your pants legs back from someone in disgust as you pass them is insufficiently scornful.2. Studies have shown that wearing skirts is 90% effective in preventing VPL (visible panty line).3. Ditto for "plumber's butt," "whale tail,"and "camel
THE HUNDRED DRESSES: DAY 100 And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses-the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it.I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: I don’t know if I ever postedthis one:
DRESSADAY_LOGO
Visit the post for more. I just read “The Secret Lives of Dresses” and I fell in love with the characters and storyline. WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW PATTERNS AGAINSIMPLICITY SEWING PATTERNSBUTTERICK SEWING PATTERNSFREE PRINTABLE SEWING PATTERNSONLINE SEWING PATTERNSONLINE SEWING PATTERNS So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?):. I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns."Cool," I thought. (Insert ominous music here.) I blithely entered my Paypal information and JANE TISE PATTERN AKA "BEST MIDRIFF EVER" But a couple quick Googles turned up that she was one of the founders of Esprit, back in the day! And that Esprit was called The Plain Jane Dress Company first, which, while cute and having that fakey-homespun feel of the late sixties/early seventies, probably didn't have the marketing ooomph that "Esprit de Corp" had. Or the little inherentpun.
PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAY Only four pieces sounds like a bad deal when it's a box of See's, but when it's a pattern, it sounds pretty nice (especially to me because I'm still wrestling with Simplicity 2180, and by "wrestling" I mean "sobbing over with a seam ripper that is glowing red from friction").. Like with this great pattern from Michelle at OldPatterns.com (which, by the way, has had a major update, includingPATTERN STORIES
Here we present four stellar graduates demonstrating what they learned in our best-selling How To Look Like You’re Listening While Thinking Of Completely Unrelated Things course—available as a seminar on three long-playing records!. In this course, you’ll learn how to: keep an attentive, thoughtful look on your face for up to three hoursstraight
MAY 2020 – A DRESS A DAY 1 post published by Erin during May 2020. Here we present four stellar graduates demonstrating what they learned in our best-selling How To Look Like You’re Listening While Thinking Of Completely Unrelated Things course—available as a seminar on three long-playing records!. In this course, you’ll learn how to: 100DRESSES – A DRESS A DAY The Hundred Dresses: Day 100. September 10, 2013. Erin. 30 Comments. And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses -the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it. I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: QUICK MASK HACK: ADD A NOSE WIRE WITH PIPING! Here’s how to do it: Cut out your mask pieces (fabric and lining) and sew the center seam of your mask as directed. Cut a piece of piping long enough to go the whole top edge of the mask: Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wireINTO
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PROM TIME (CIRCA 1989) Prom Time (circa 1989) It's prom time, isn't it? I am starting to see prom stories in the news, and folks on the various sewing lists I'm on are starting to post their war stories of sewing dresses for their daughters so I thought I'd dig up the photo of the great dress my mom made for me. My mom has actually made me two prom dresses; the YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PRETTY You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked“female”.
DON'T WEAR GREEN TARLETAN DRESSES Don't Wear Green Tarletan Dresses. Attention has very frequently been called to the presence of large amounts of arsenic in green tarlatan, which has given rise so many times to dangerous symptoms of poisoning when made into dresses and worn, so that it is very rare now to see a green tarlatan dress. This fabric is still used, however, to aA DRESS A DAY
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAYA DRESS A DAY BLOGNEW DRESS A DAYA NEW DRESS A DAYONE DRESS A DAYDAY DRESS GOWNSLIGHT CHIFFON DAY DRESS Just so we're clear: I freaking love this dress. So far I've made it twice, and if I am ever in my sewing room while the sun is up, I will take a picture or two of the ones that I've completed. (I also have two more cut out and half-sewn.) Here is why this dress is near-perfect: 1. The collar is adorable.THE HUNDRED DRESSES
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be APRIL 2020 – A DRESS A DAY Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wire INTO the piping. Just poke that sucker in between two stitches! Skoosh it through the piping, like you were putting elastic or a drawstring cord through a casing.ERIN_SEWING
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. TEN REASONS SKIRTS ARE BETTER THAN PANTS 1. Drawing your pants legs back from someone in disgust as you pass them is insufficiently scornful.2. Studies have shown that wearing skirts is 90% effective in preventing VPL (visible panty line).3. Ditto for "plumber's butt," "whale tail,"and "camel
THE HUNDRED DRESSES: DAY 100 And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses-the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it.I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: I don’t know if I ever postedthis one:
DRESSADAY_LOGO
Visit the post for more. I just read “The Secret Lives of Dresses” and I fell in love with the characters and storyline. WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW PATTERNS AGAINSIMPLICITY SEWING PATTERNSBUTTERICK SEWING PATTERNSFREE PRINTABLE SEWING PATTERNSONLINE SEWING PATTERNSONLINE SEWING PATTERNS So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?):. I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns."Cool," I thought. (Insert ominous music here.) I blithely entered my Paypal information and JANE TISE PATTERN AKA "BEST MIDRIFF EVER" But a couple quick Googles turned up that she was one of the founders of Esprit, back in the day! And that Esprit was called The Plain Jane Dress Company first, which, while cute and having that fakey-homespun feel of the late sixties/early seventies, probably didn't have the marketing ooomph that "Esprit de Corp" had. Or the little inherentpun.
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heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAYA DRESS A DAY BLOGNEW DRESS A DAYA NEW DRESS A DAYONE DRESS A DAYDAY DRESS GOWNSLIGHT CHIFFON DAY DRESS Just so we're clear: I freaking love this dress. So far I've made it twice, and if I am ever in my sewing room while the sun is up, I will take a picture or two of the ones that I've completed. (I also have two more cut out and half-sewn.) Here is why this dress is near-perfect: 1. The collar is adorable.THE HUNDRED DRESSES
The dress is the last bit of femininity in our closets; it's the only item of clothing which (most) men and women don't share. Wearing a dress is a powerful way for women to express themselves--and every style conveys a different message. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be APRIL 2020 – A DRESS A DAY Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wire INTO the piping. Just poke that sucker in between two stitches! Skoosh it through the piping, like you were putting elastic or a drawstring cord through a casing.ERIN_SEWING
heavily modified Chalk and Notch Fringe dress in Kaffe Fassett yarn-dye. I think I bought this fabric at Scrap in Portland, in the beforetimes, but I’m not sure.. So yeah, this is the Chalk and Notch Fringe dress, which is super-comfortable, even more so when you turn the skirt into a six-panel one and add gathering to the center front and back and extremely deep pockets. TEN REASONS SKIRTS ARE BETTER THAN PANTS 1. Drawing your pants legs back from someone in disgust as you pass them is insufficiently scornful.2. Studies have shown that wearing skirts is 90% effective in preventing VPL (visible panty line).3. Ditto for "plumber's butt," "whale tail,"and "camel
THE HUNDRED DRESSES: DAY 100 And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses-the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it.I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: I don’t know if I ever postedthis one:
DRESSADAY_LOGO
Visit the post for more. I just read “The Secret Lives of Dresses” and I fell in love with the characters and storyline. WHY I WON’T BE USING SIMPLICITY PRINTSEW PATTERNS AGAINSIMPLICITY SEWING PATTERNSBUTTERICK SEWING PATTERNSFREE PRINTABLE SEWING PATTERNSONLINE SEWING PATTERNSONLINE SEWING PATTERNS So I was faffing about on Pinterest, and there was this great link from SewWeekly's Make This Look (isn't this dress lovely?):. I went to go check out the pattern (which is Simplicity 2180, not Butterick 2180, as it has in the image) and saw that Simplicity was now offering print-on-demand patterns."Cool," I thought. (Insert ominous music here.) I blithely entered my Paypal information and JANE TISE PATTERN AKA "BEST MIDRIFF EVER" But a couple quick Googles turned up that she was one of the founders of Esprit, back in the day! And that Esprit was called The Plain Jane Dress Company first, which, while cute and having that fakey-homespun feel of the late sixties/early seventies, probably didn't have the marketing ooomph that "Esprit de Corp" had. Or the little inherentpun.
PATTERNS – A DRESS A DAY Only four pieces sounds like a bad deal when it's a box of See's, but when it's a pattern, it sounds pretty nice (especially to me because I'm still wrestling with Simplicity 2180, and by "wrestling" I mean "sobbing over with a seam ripper that is glowing red from friction").. Like with this great pattern from Michelle at OldPatterns.com (which, by the way, has had a major update, includingPATTERN STORIES
Here we present four stellar graduates demonstrating what they learned in our best-selling How To Look Like You’re Listening While Thinking Of Completely Unrelated Things course—available as a seminar on three long-playing records!. In this course, you’ll learn how to: keep an attentive, thoughtful look on your face for up to three hoursstraight
MAY 2020 – A DRESS A DAY 1 post published by Erin during May 2020. Here we present four stellar graduates demonstrating what they learned in our best-selling How To Look Like You’re Listening While Thinking Of Completely Unrelated Things course—available as a seminar on three long-playing records!. In this course, you’ll learn how to: 100DRESSES – A DRESS A DAY The Hundred Dresses: Day 100. September 10, 2013. Erin. 30 Comments. And so we come to the end the Duro! The Duro is actually one of the Hundred Dresses in The-Hundred-Dresses -the-book, and it’s named for Duro Olowu, who designed it. I fell in love found a reasonable facsimile and I made it a lot. To wit: QUICK MASK HACK: ADD A NOSE WIRE WITH PIPING! Here’s how to do it: Cut out your mask pieces (fabric and lining) and sew the center seam of your mask as directed. Cut a piece of piping long enough to go the whole top edge of the mask: Cut a piece of wire (with paper scissors, not fabric scissors!) about 3/4 to 5/8 as long as the piece of piping (I just eyeball it): Insert the wireINTO
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A dress, nearly every day. Salt: No, you have to maintain an air of mystery, like this. Turn your head, just until you can see your right shoulder blade, or your neck cramps, whichever comes first. FIVE SEWING TOOLS I USE ALL THE TIME Highly recommended, and under ten bucks. 3. Tailor’s Ham. You’ve probably read by now that half of sewing is really pressing, and it’s true. A tailor’s ham lets you really steam curves so that your collars, facings, sleeves, and so on all lie flat nicely. Also, it’s really fun to throw a tailor’s ham at people who bother youwhen
PROM TIME (CIRCA 1989) Prom Time (circa 1989) It's prom time, isn't it? I am starting to see prom stories in the news, and folks on the various sewing lists I'm on are starting to post their war stories of sewing dresses for their daughters so I thought I'd dig up the photo of the great dress my mom made for me. My mom has actually made me two prom dresses; the YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PRETTY You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked“female”.
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A DRESS, NEARLY EVERY DAY. ANOTHER MASK PATTERN__April 2, 2020
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With a few small adjustments this mask would handle both airborne virus particles AND help a LOT with social distancing! NOTE: THIS IS A JOKE _PLEASE_ DON’T MAKE ONE OF THESE INSTEAD OF A REAL MASK. GOT A GREAT MASK PATTERN? PLEASE PUT IT IN THE COMMENTS! (If you really want to make this—I don’t know, social isolation does weird things to people, no judgment—the pattern is available on Etsy from seller PatternGrove.)
TODAY’S PATTERN STORY: ADVANCE 5640__March 26, 2020
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Flora: Soon my “date” will be here! Little does he know this will be the last prom he _ever_ attends! My Boutonnière of Death shallensure it!
Nora: If … I … can … just … get … this … electric … collar … off … must … warn … Bobby! Image is from our old pal Sandritocat, on Etsy.
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Lara: If I just made these sleeves a little bigger—like, five or so feet, that’s not even two yards!—I could leave the house! Nobody could get close to me! Sara: I’ve heard dumber ideas! STILL ON THE FRINGE(S)__December 27, 2019
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Hello! Happy New Year! Well, 2019 has been a blur, hasn’t it? I did more sewing than I did blogging, that’s for sure. The dress I was obsessed with for most of the latter half of 2019 was the Chalk and Notch Fringedress (with some
significant alterations, mostly in the pocket department). I liked the neckline and the roominess of it, and the shirt-tail hem (which I faced for better weight/drape rather than using a narrow hem finish). It’s nice in the summer, with sandals, but I’ve also been wearing it over a long-sleeved tee/with a cardigan and leggings with boots.
What did I make it in? Well, probably a better question is what _didn’t_ I make it in. My favorite was probably the Nani Iro double gauze, which I made in two colorways because one is neverenough:
I didn’t take a good picture of the multicolor stripe, but you can get a glimpse of it here. I
also made it in a lovely gray broken plaid double gauze from Stonemountain and Daughter(did you know they
send you sewing stickers now if you mail-order?), but no pictures of that yet, I’ve been too busy wearing it! This pattern is great for fabrics with large motifs (and/or masochists), because there’s really only one big, important seam tomatch:
In order to have pockets in the style to which I have become accustomed, I split the front skirt panel into three pieces, and changed the pockets from in-seam to scoop, like so: (Of course there’s piping, pockets are 87% to hold your stuff and 10% to give you an excuse to add piping, and 3% to put funlinings
in.)
By making the skirt three panels (I did this with the back skirt, too) I could add some more gathers and make my now-customary Sir Mix-A-Lot adjustment to the back pieces. I replaced the cuffs and ties in the pattern instructions with plain ol’ bias finishing: This dress has a button-front version, which I also made at least three times (but only have pictures of one version so far). This is a gray chambray with some slightly dodgy topstitching: With any luck it won’t be another year before I update again! HEAR ME ON HOBBY HORSE!__November 18, 2018
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ANOTHER SHIRT-SHIRTDRESS __September 24, 2018__Erin
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Remember my erstwhileobsession
with
making shirtdresses out of shirts?It’s back.
I started this time with (again) the Seamwork Veronica , because it’s easy to make and to wear, and the panel version (for subscribers) is
a perfect target for weirdnesses such as this: This particular dress is made out of (I think) four men’s shirts of varying gingham and stripe patterns (I tried really hard to find all different ginghams but ended up with the stripes, which I think workedout okay).
I thought about trying to cut the waistband so that it too would unbutton, but the placket width was slightly off (and I was more thanslightly lazy).
But I remembered to take construction pictures this time! So here’s how I cut out that center front skirt panel from the front of a shirt—I extended the front panel to include the curved hem.Here’s a closeup:
Basically, I created a new pattern piece for the full center front panel (since it’s too hard to put buttons on the fold) and drew a line to mark the CF, which I could then line up over the center of the buttons in the shirt. (I did the same for the CF bodice and CB bodice& skirt pieces ).
For the CB, I was able to keep the locker loop and yoke, which I always like (but not enough to go out of my way to sew myself, oh no): The pocket backing is cut on the bias from the sleeve (men’s shirt sleeves have a lot of fabric in them): Here it is, constructed: A little in-progress view of the bodice: This is right after I resewed the front pocket to overlap the side bodice piece — I usually use washaway tape to hold the pocket in place while I sew, because otherwise things go badly. Here’s the full back view: You can almost see that there’s a shirttail hem on the back, to mimic the one on the front—here’s a closer photo of that: And the piecing of that, since I couldn’t get the curved hems on the shirts to match up well with the pieces I was cutting. (I actually like how this turned out better …) I just took the curved hem bits I had left over and eyeballed how they should match the front skirt, like so: Then it was just a matter of making sure I had seam allowance on theother side, too:
Finished result:
Unless you already have a lot of old men’s shirts lying around, making a shirtdress out of shirts is not that much less expensive than buying yardage (at least not in SF, where a decent shirt at a thrift store will cost you $5-9, depending on condition and whether or not it’s on 50% off sale that day). It takes 4-5 L or XL shirts for one dress, and I try to limit myself to shirts that are unwearable as shirts when I can—ones with stained cuffs, frayed collars, or minor holes that I can work around. I hear tell there’s a Goodwill warehouse in Burlingamethat has
a ‘pay-by-the-pound’ sale, but I haven’t gone yet—if you’ve gone, feel free to leave your report in the comments! I want to make a version that is all different flannel plaids for fall, but finding coordinating flannel plaids on intermittent thrift-store trips is a loooooooong project. (It’d would also be fun to make one in Hawaiian-shirt prints, or one in novelty prints … ) COFFEE CANDY, RANKED __September 11, 2018__Erin
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A few weeks ago I was in SF’s Japantown and found that the grocery there (Nijiya Market) sells my
favorite coffee-flavored candy, coffeebeat . (I love this stuff and hadn’t been able to find it for ages, so this made me veryhappy!)
Also, it has the BEST packaging: Coffee candy is odd, in that it melds something that is considered ‘for grownups’ (coffee) with something that’s for kids (candy). This narrow audience of immature adults and/or precocious children means that there isn’t a ton of coffee-flavored candy out there. (I’m deliberately leaving out high-end fancy chocolate that includescoffee.)
“Erin,” you might be saying (and are saying for the purposes of me setting up this blog post) “If coffeebeat is your favorite coffee candy, how do all the other available coffee candies rank against it?” I’m so glad you asked, imaginary blog interlocutor! Here, I will rank all the best coffee-flavored candies for you! NB: I don’t actually like to DRINK coffee (other than cold brew) so none of these candies are ranked by how well they replicate the experience of drinking a hot cup of coffee. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯*
* coffeebeat
I know we covered this above, but coffeebeat’s particular blend of coffee, chocolate, and a crunchy candy shell, plus the adorable packaging, puts coffeebeat at the top of the coffee-candy list.2. Coffee Crisp
Does what it says on the package: is coffee-flavored, is crisp. (In the small print you will also find that this is Canadian.) These are addictive and my son knows that if he brings me back one of these when he returns home from college I will do all his laundry without complaint, which makes this a pretty powerful candy bar.3. Coffee Nips
These are delicious, but terrifyingly sticky and the sworn enemy of dental work. You can lose a filling just opening the box. (I imagine unscrupulous dentists keeping bowls of these in their waiting rooms.) Nips come in other flavors, including Butter Rum, which is what you buy when you think Werther’s are for whippersnappers.4. Coffee Rio
Coffee Rio is a kinder, gentler Coffee Nip (at least, texture-wise) which comes in more coffee flavors (although I’ve never seen anyone eat the Raspberry Mochas, and I would be slightly weirded out if you told me those were your favorite, but _de gustibus, _whatever). These are easier to find, being carried by most Trader Joe’s, and come in sugar-free versions, too.5. Hopjes
Hopjes taste a little more on the bitter side to me, but they have the best typography (after coffeebeat, of course) so that’s a definite plus. They’re also usually available at bulk or penny-candy shops (for grandma? I don’t know, several of the Amazon reviews for Hopjes mention grandmas) which makes them more accessible.6. Sperlari-Lavazza
These are a hard candy that have a soft center, but not a liquid one (this is an important distinction). Sperlari candies are also classy, because they’re Italian, but the best Sperlari candies are the aniseones .
7. Bali’s Best Coffee The espresso and latte flavors have fillings that can be a little grainy (and disconcerting if you weren’t expecting them) but the plain coffee flavor is delightful and not too strong.8. Kopiko
Kopiko is a fine (and caffeinated) coffee candy that comes individually wrapped. Kopiko is great for when you have a sore throat but still want to maintain the pretense that you are a working person doing work things like a worker (but should really just be zonked out on the couch with those lozenges that make you think of yodeling).9. CoffeeGo
CoffeeGo’s schtick is that they replace coffee. They do not. They also do not replace candy. I’m not sure what they replace.10. Pocket Coffee
You might think it’s called “Pocket Coffee” because it’s convenient to keep in your pocket, but I suspect (from the taste) that the coffee in Pocket Coffee is actually brewed from pocket lint. If you are old enough to remember liquid-center chewing gum,
and are thinking “huh, I’d like to experience that again, only with cold espresso,” then maybe this is for you. I haven’t tried the coffee Werther’s , this Brazilian coffee candy , these suspiciously-unreviewed Coffee Drops , or these Woogie Fine Drops (the sellers describe eating them as “sinking into an abyss of rich and succulent coffee flavor”, so bewarned).
I may have tried these French hard candies in junior high school (they look familiar and are supposedly available at Epcot (!) which makes them exactly the kind of thing I would have purchased at 13) and these Simpkins coffee “travel sweets” , but I have no firm recollection of either, just that at one point I had a nice round tin with coffee candy in it, which I later used to hold my D&D dice. If you have a favorite coffee candy, feel free to rave about it in thecomments!
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