Women's Aviator Pants by Winter Wear Designs

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Women's Aviator Pants by Winter Wear Designs

Self-care sewing at its finest as we show you the latest and greatest pattern, the Women's Aviator Pants, from our resident PDF designer, Suzanne Winter of Winter Wear Designs.

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Halloween Extravaganza Day 5: Vampires and Detectives

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Halloween Extravaganza Day 5: Vampires and Detectives

Today we travel back in time to visit one of the greatest detectives - Sam Spade, and one of the oldest movie villains - Dracula.

Let Andrea and Rebecca transport you to a different world....

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Pattern Anthology 8 Days a Week Tour

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Pattern Anthology 8 Days a Week Tour

Today I am on the tour for Pattern Anthology's 8 Days a Week Collection!  I wish there were 8 days in my week... I just think of all the things I could get done with an extra 24 hours in my life, but then again, that extra 24 hours would only be helpful if it came with childcare and a nap ;o)

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Women's Leggings, Side by Side

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Women's Leggings, Side by Side

So this week is a huge week for Women's Sewing, and we are happy to be joining in through the week with some Self Care Sewing of our own. (head over to ImagineGnats to see some amazing sewing and enter to win an awesome giveaway!)

If you want to find more reviews and inspiration on Pattern Revolution for Self Care Sewing, Just go to the right hand side and click the link for Women's Patterns.

Today, Jeanine is here to help you make an educated decision about which legging pattern is best for you - Leggings are a fall staple, and all patterns are different!  Let's take a side by side look at the Jocole and Greenstyle Leggings.

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Jocole Skinnies On Tour

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It's no secret that we are HUGE fans of Jocole patterns here at Pattern Revolution. Today we are sharing the Jocole Skinnies again because we just love them so much! If you've never made a Jocole pattern before, be sure to check into the Jocole Facebook group to participate in their upcoming Sew Along and keep tabs on the featured section of the website so you don't miss our favorite day of the week- Wednesday, when one Jocole pattern is half off every week!

 Here's Melissa to tell you more about the Skinny Pants.

Hi, I’m Melissa from Sassy Fras Designs and I’m so excited to be on the Jocole Blog Tour today!

I have thought the Jocole Skinny Pants were the best thing since sliced bread since the first time I laid eyes on them. However, I was very intimidated by them. I loved every version I saw, but I know the seamstresses who had sewn them are also a little bit like Wonder Woman, and my only super power is keeping a household of 5 kids from running (too) wild, so I remained intimidated. With a little encouragement, I jumped into sewing up a pair. Now I just have two problems #1) I need more stretch fabric in a rainbow of colors. #2) Why did I wait so long to try this pattern?!

From start to finish, this pair was done in under 3 hours. No joke. That includes taping pattern, tracing in my size, cutting fabric & sewing. I would have sworn something like this was going to take me days! 

This is my wearable muslin. I did back pockets, but no patch pockets, and was bucking the recommendations & planning on them being wearable all along. It could have gone either direction, but I was lucky (this time!)  The fabric is a teeny bit on the stiff side (it’s a chocolate brown stretch denim that happened to be in my stash) which highlighted areas where any bunching or pulling was occurring, but one quick session of pinning & altering & they’re much better. My next pair will be made with a little more lightweight stretch denim.

The pattern comes in a range of sizes from 00 to 28w, with lots of stops in between and makes it very easy to blend sizes to fit our bodies.

I’m still no Wonder Woman, but these pants absolutely make me feel like Super Girl at least! Ready to take on all that my kids & job throw at me, while looking pretty stylish to boot! And that is the moral of my story – if a mere mortal like me can do this, so can you.

The Bird is the WORD - L'Oiseau Fabrics

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The Bird is the WORD - L'Oiseau Fabrics

We are so happy to announce our newest Sponsor here at Pattern Revolution - L'Oiseau Fabrics.  This Canadian based company ships world wide and carries some adorable knits from around the world including Stenzo, Euro Knits, and Birch Organics.  They also have a variety of Poplin and Corduroy and are constantly putting new gems in stock.

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Runway Deconstructed: #ChallengeCreate Destash Entry, Explained

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Runway Deconstructed: #ChallengeCreate Destash Entry, Explained

That is right - it is the FINAL week of team Becca & Suzanne competing in the Skirt Fixation Challenge Create: Adult Edition.  We hope you have enjoyed following us in this competition - we sure have had fun sewing! (And now, I for one, am ready to not cut an adult sized pattern for quite a while!)

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