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This year, you’d like to share your sewing skills, or maybe avoid excessive consumerism, and you’ve decided to give handmade presents… Let’s go find the perfect project! Deer and Doe investigated to bring you pretty gift ideas in every style… and the icing on the cake is that these are all free patterns! If you […]

May has just wrapped up, along with the favorite challenge of the sewing community. Me-Made-May is without a doubt the most-followed sewing event of the year: created by UK blogger So Zo in 2010, this yearly challenge pushes sewists to wear their handmade clothes with pride “in real life”. Everyone sets their own goal, and […]

We’ve recently released the Zéphyr dress in PDF format! For the occasion, let’s round-up a few of our favorite dresses made from this pattern. And boy, has this pattern inspired you since it came out! We’ve seen so many lovely interpretations, and many of you have even tried hacking it or mixing it with other […]

Year after year, velvet is always on trend during the fall-winter season: soft, shiny, with deep jewel tones, it’s hard to resist it. However velvet is not the easiest fabric to wear! Worn from head to toe, it can look very formal… or sometimes quite dated. Here are a couple outfit ideas to wear velvet […]

Me Made May 2017 is in full swing, and like each year we are delighted to see how you wear Deer&Doe patterns in your daily life. This year we felt like celebrating you by selecting our favorite looks from the beginning of May! Brume by Ruth / Plantain by Elena / Mélilot by rosieupnorth Luzerne […]