More to Love Sewing: Summer Top

Cute, fast, easy!
And best of all, it fits you, because it’s based on your measurements!

If you can sew a straight line with a sewing machine, then you can make this sleeveless summer top, tunic or sundress.

Wear it alone, over a tank top or a tee shirt.
Sew it hip length for

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A Mother's Day Card for You!

Happy Mother’s Day!
Free to print and color for my friends, fans, and blog readers :
a drawing of a mother and her young children.

This link will download the illustration as a printable PDF file.
Mother’s Day by Elizabeth Patch © elizabeth patch, 2011, all rights reserved
This illustration is for personal, non-commercial use

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More to Love Sewing: Altering a Shirt

Apple or pear, thin or thick, old or young, short or tall we all can choose clothes that are either flattering or…
not so much.
I’ve lost count of the times I bought something on a whim
(its on sale! its trendy and cool! I’m in a bad mood and I deserve something

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Does Positive Body Image Even Matter?

Sometimes it feels a bit trivial to focus on body image, self-esteem, size acceptance.
After all, in a world filled with horrifying natural disasters, violent political uprisings,
wars and and the resulting suffering,
how important is positive body image?

In world where people are dying of hunger,
lack of medicine,
lack of clean water,
toxins in the

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All the Pretty Ladies

I believe that no matter what size, shape, color or age we are,
each of us has an inherent beauty that is so much more than any physical trait. Redhead, middle-aged, black, white, skinny, fat, none of these words can capture who we truly are, even if they describe one aspect

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Hilda: Plus-Size Pin-Up

I know that “body image”, “size acceptance” and “self-esteem for women” are not generally fun topics!
So one of the things I try to do with both my art & writing is to take a light-hearted look at things that can often be emotional and serious for many, many women. My

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International No Diet Day!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

International No Diet Day (INDD) is an annual celebration of body acceptance and body shape diversity. This day is also dedicated to raise awareness of the dangers in diets. This day is observed on May 6, and its symbol is a blue ribbon, similar to

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* blush*

Three people gave me the “Beautiful Blogger” award this week!

Many thanks to Julie Parker at Beautiful You
and Andrea Owen at Live Your Ideal Life
and Revolution of Real Women
I am so honored!

The rules of this award are to list 15 blogs that I also consider beautiful.
Any and all of the

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More to Love Valentine

More to Love

More of Heart.

More of Soul.

More of Mind.

More of Me.

More to Love.

© Elizabeth Patch, all rights reserved, from “More to Love”

Heart, Soul, Mind, Me!
There is so very much more to love
about who you are.

Wishing you a life filled with love!
(and chocolate & flowers too, of course!)

A Valentine from Elizabeth

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Get a Gift and Give a Donation!

I always donate 10% of sales to food banks
in gratitude for the food I received for my family during the time in my life when I was a single mom and had very little income.

During the month of December,
I will donate 100% of all sales from More to Love to

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