Sorry your blog has been deleted

Mini me & I 

Well I'm back.....& so is my blog.  

I have been gone for so long because Google

deleted this blog & mini-me's blog while we were traveling Europe together.

I have traveled before on this blog & posted & commented with no problems.

This time we were in London, France & Portugal & we were not really going to post

 but when we found a cool charity shop with some awesome fabric & frocks

in the middle of London, this came up:

"there has been unusual activity on your account, type in your phone number to 

verify your blog"

I thought right away this was a scam & no way was I giving out my cell phone number (never mind the international charges)!

I closed the page & went to log in again & this showed up:

Blog has been removed

Sorry, the blog at SewCoco blah blah has been deleted.

Seriously Google?  It's not like if you even read my blogs or you would

know we are traveling & WTF do other bloggers do when they

freaking travel?  We had the correct password!!  

By the time we landed in Portugal our blogs had been completely

deleted.....if you typed in mother daughter sewing/fashion.....we were gone.

Middle daughter-The Model

A few months later I returned to Vancouver & finally have time to sew again.
Mini-me does not want to continue our other blog as she has moved on to
Instagram & twitter which she likes for ease of posting & commenting,
but I did miss this blog - because this is where I
documented my novice sewing with my 3 daughters.

Mini-me was the first of my daughters to take interest right away & after 6 months

of sewing we started this blog together.

My oldest - rare appearance on this blog


So I gave Google my cell number now that I was back home & they text a code,
which I entered & voila, I had this blog back.  They didn't even verify that
this was me & indeed my cell phone....what do others do that
do not have a cell phone?

Lesson learned - back up your blog & maybe try another site?
Wordpress? My own domain? or just instagram & twitter, the
fast, barely there communication?



Rant.....over.... next up....a little sewing!

Sharing with Holly @ 504 Main

Powder Puff Skirt

Well hello there.....

London had beautiful weather so perfect for visiting castles & having high tea.  I also haunted
 fabric stores & a fabulous charity shop right in the middle of London!
Paris was truly breath taking & I relaxed by sitting in cafes & writing
Poetry with Mini-me.  I also found so me beautiful fabric
 and some fabulous Paule Ka heels!

Thank you for your lovely emails while I have been long gone
from this blog!

This is a silk skirt my girls sewed for me a while back that 

I never got around to posting before I left.

It is leftover fabric from one of my silk curtains from the 90's that they serged with

hot pink. 

 I like it!

Sew you later!

~DeniseAngela~

The sewing dress

It is named this because of the sewing notions on the bodice,
& I finally made it into a dress!  New Look 6934 pattern.



I have had this fabric for about 5 years now & the skirt part
is a white circle upholstery fabric that I made pillows for our RV more than
10 years ago.

I used a cotton silk for the lining, leftover from my beach cover up.

An easy dress to make & I have made it many times, 

but I always forget about

the bodice lining...how to match up correctly...

maybe next time I will remember!

I used a contrast Tiffany blue zipper....well, because I

love contrast!

 Lucinda my new mannequin is

 modeling it for me.

Sharing my Project with:
Justine

Sew you later!

~DeniseAngela

mini-me sews

Mini-me & I are off to Europe in a few weeks so we

 have started to sew some garments for our trip.

She saw that I had all this fabric & wanted to design 

her own dress!

She picked this pink polka dot fabric & a little Spring 

time sateen for her design.

She sewed the skirt part & she asked for help with the stretchy polka

dot fabric.  I used a zig zag stitch of course.

I also serged the seams in tangerine because I still have not

changed the thread.......I know so bad.

This is her design....not bad for for a teen & so like her....original!  She plans on 

wearing this in France with a Beret.

Sew you later!

~DeniseAngela~

Projects for April....

I have been back to designing in addition to 

sewing with patterns.  This New Look pattern 6125 is for my oldest who 

is 20 years old.  She is in University & is tired of spending what little

cash she makes on clothes so she asked me to make this dress for her.

New Look workroom pattern 6051 I thought would make a colourful 

lounge dress or cover up for me in this silky sateen fabric.

I am also drafting a bias skirt pattern in a larger size than the one 

I made a few years ago for my middle daughters friend.

This blue & white cotton sewing machine fabric I bought a few years ago & decided to

design a contrast dress using New Look 6934.

Last but not least mini-me has designed her own dress

& this is all I can show you until she 

finishes it!

Thanks for stopping by &

Sew you later!

~DeniseAngela~