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Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to Simple Life Pattern Company! Happy Birthday to you! We can't believe it has been an entire YEAR since the Simple Life Pattern Company was formed! We are so super proud of Katie Skoog, the owner and founder of SLPco. In one year, she

Welcome to the latest stop on the Avantgarde Fabrics Blog Tour!! I'm so honored to be a part of this blog tour and to be able to have my creations paired up with all of these remarkably talented people! Katarina Roccella's latest fabric line is bold, edgy, vibrant and fresh!

This is Ali Brorsen of Because of Brenna. I am so excited to be guest blogging for Simple Life Pattern Company today! This is my second stop along the DARE Blog Tour, and as promised I am going to take you through how I created the Bella Herringbone Dress. The

  Welcome to the Dare by Pat Bravo blog tour! Lets just start by saying I love this fabric line.  I feel it has the perfect amount of whimsy and all my favorite colors (who doesn't love navy and pink together???). I grabbed the graphic below from Pat's Facebook page. That blazer

Have you ever noticed how many party dresses for girls are sleeveless? Seems like virtually all of the fancy dresses are sleeveless. Finding just the right sweater to pair with a dress can be so hard. Well, your friends at Simple Life Company and Hawthorne Threads paired up to create an adorable solution!

Hey Everyone! I am so excited to share some news with you! We have been super busy working on girls patterns and I had been trying to do a few baby patterns here and there but I just can't do everything. With that said, I am so proud and happy

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! And, let's bring on the holidays!! OK, I admit it, I love the holidays! We celebrate Christmas at my house and I love everything about this season. The decorations, the music, the cookies, and of course the dresses!! To get you all in the spirit of the holiday season

Who hasn’t been drooling over the new Hawthorne Threads fabric lines?!?! I love the fresh new color palettes and new designs. I especially love that these fabrics will NEVER SELL OUT! How great is that?  Last week my family went to Tucson, my hometown, to visit my family. When I saw the Roam fabric

When I find a pattern that fits well, I tend to like to make it over and over again. I love finding ways to change up the look of a pattern. Look what you can do with Saige!! My daughter wanted a special shirt for Halloween and I had just the

The best thing about having twin girls is getting to do girl things, like having tea parties. The problem is, we don't really have tea parties. We have backyard picnics with string cheese and lemonade and call them a tea party. I have always wanted to host one of those