Sometimes I don’t have the inspiration. I don’t feel it. That fabric, all pre-washed, ironed, and folded neatly in my stash just doesn’t speak to me. It doesn’t say, “make me into that box-pleated dress”, or a “button-down shirt.” It isn’t begging to be transformed from a flat, lucid piece of fabric into a dynamic, living, and loved garment.

But a few days ago, I had found one of those forgotten pieces of breezy summer blue cotton in the bottom of my fabric bin, and it spoke to me. I am gauzy. I am soft. I am floaty. I am summer breezy blue. Use me. Form me. Now. And so I did.

Of course, for Mini Mister  it was a new shirt that was necessary. I’d been saving these cute blue and red car buttons for a while, waiting for just the right project. He simply adores them, and fell asleep holding his new shirt to his cheek.

And for Little Miss. Well, I thought I’d try a new smock dress pattern in the same matching blue. Because who doesn’t love matching her “Oppa”? Super duper easy to sew up. And we were matching in our summer breezy blues in no time.