As I was updating fixing my website links yesterday, I got to thinking about how the Spin Around Dress is one of my favorite patterns, and from the looks of it, it’s one of yours too. Which lead to more thinking and I arrived at the sad fact: Molly could no longer fit in to the 2T pattern that I designed for her back in 2009. So, what else could I do?

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Well, sorta. If "famous" means having your passions featured in two different blogs that you idolize in less than a week, then YES!! On Saturday, my cloudscape photo of Thomas and Molly won the tap tap tap contest. I was completely floored that they also chose another photo entry of mine in the honourable mentions. If you have an iPhone, I totally recommend Camera+ it's a great app (and I'm not just saying that because I won, lol). Today, I'm guest blogging over at Sew Mama Sew! Can you just pinch me now? I submitted an idea for a Summer Sewing series and they liked it, they really liked it!

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So, if you know me, you know I can never leave well enough alone. Which is why yesterday I thought, hmm I wonder if it would work as a knit and I could totally make sleeves to go with it for the cold weather months ahead. :) Well, that should be easy, right? All I needed to do was cut the two back pieces on a fold where the first line is (totally thinking ahead when I made the pattern) before the part with the snaps in it. Knit part complete! Oh and here's my sleeve pattern add on while I'm at it: **** FOR KNITS****  http://www.kingstondesign.com/SpinAroundSleeveAddon.pdf ***FOR WOVENS*** http://www.kingstondesign.com/WovenSpinAroundSleeveAddon.pdf Here's

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Whenever I come up with a new dress pattern for Molly, she always asks, "It Spin Around?" In this pattern, she is all princess and all spin. The Spin Around Dress, made just for Molly, and she's not shy about sharing. This Pattern is for PERSONAL USE ONLY. Please do not reproduce or sell items made from this pattern. Quicky instructions and full size pattern pieces available in pdf form for downloading here: http://www.kingstondesign.com/SpinAroundDressFreebie.pdf Materials: A yard and a half of any woven of your choosing. I picked a lovely quilters cotton for mine. A good key to selecting

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(Whew! That’s a wordy title!) All In Ones (AIO) are great for outings or when you’re showing off your cloth diaper collection to your friends in hopes to convert them. PUL is great but only comes in a limited array of solid colors and Cotton Laminated PUL is adorable, but the prints you love are hard to come by and wicks anyway. So what is a girl to do? If you have the Little Half Moon Pattern, the answer is easy: Combine your favorite cotton woven (heck, it could even be a great skirt that you found at a vintage shop) and make a wick-less all in one. ;) Start out with your pattern laid

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My ever lovely licensee Jessica from Utopian Dreams is an expert Little One Size maker, and she was so kind to write up this tutorial on how she makes the cloth diaper pattern into a pocket diaper. She's very clever in her snap pocket, I admire her ingenuity ;) Go try it! -Samantha ------------------- With this being the first in-depth tutorial I have written, I tried to be as detailed as possible but if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask. This was done with the side snapping version, but is pretty easily translated over to the front snapping. 1. Gather your supplies. I did also

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If you've been watching me for awhile (stalker) you've seen the tighty whitey hipsters before ;) Debuting here in March of '06: It's been a bit tweaked since then, but the overall look is the same ;) (BTW, the star goes on the booty) Well, if you have seen them and thought; "Wow, I really want to make my own!" then here's your chance. There is just one size on here, just set your printer to the % associated with the size you'd like and tape printed edge to edge ;) (if you are a hook and loop gal, use 2" on the larger sizes and 1.5" on sizes small down, just cut to the width, not the height)

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When I updated my website I forgot to put up links to the Not So Flat Wrap! There was quite a stir I caused! lmbo Sorry about that!

Without further ado…

Not So Flat Wrap (500 KB PDF)
Not So Flat Wrap Detailed Instructions

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