Hello Internet friends!

It feels like a whole age since I last wrote here but in reality it has only been about two weeks! I purposely postponed last weeks’s scheduled post and took a step back from posting my own content on Instagram to allow for voices in the BIPOC communities to be heard, and to do my own research, learning, and reflection. I say this not to ‘get a pat on the back’ but to acknowledge my own short comings, failings, and to re-affirm to myself, and to you, to continue to listen, to learn, to accept criticism, and to continue the work of identifying/dismantling my own internalized biases. This is not something that can be done over the course of a few weeks or months, it will take years. There will be mistakes that I make along the way, much like any type of learning, but I have committed to starting and I am committed to this life long path. I hope that you too have taken some time to reflect and begin this much needed work! I have collated all of the resources I’ve been sharing on my Instagram stories in my highlights under resources, I’ll continue to update these as time continues, and I hope they are just as helpful to you as they are to me.

Today I’m sharing two Seamwork pattern makes, one that I made over a year ago and one that is brand new! First up is the latest of the two makes, a Lito T-Shirt Dress made in a striped cotton from BlackBird Fabrics (recently restocked I believe! this is the Gingerbread and Ivory colour way if you’re interested! Love how the colour is called gingerbread mostly because I love food 😅). Highly recommend this fabric for a dress (I may have recently bought more in a different colourway for another one lol) as it has great drape and recovery and is opaque enough for a dress without being overly thick.