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Deer & Doe Plaintain Top Experiment
I don't purchase the new indie patterns. There are several reasons for that. 1. Most of them don't grade up to plus size ranges thus eliminating my size group. Many times I just don't feel like...
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Addiction
These 17 pieces of fabric have shown up from Fabric Mart and fabric.com in the last six weeks. They are a mixture of ponte, wovens, maybe a knit piece or two, and denim. Kristin asked about my fabric...
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*Sigh!*
It's been a long six days full of 12-13 hour days and absolutely no thoughts of sewing. So after sleeping late this morning, then having lunch with my Mom and daughter, doing a little shopping and...
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A Quickie ~ The Blue/Black Print Skirt
When I work the hours I've been working lately, my sewing mojo hibernates...and an involved project just irritates me. If I'm going to sew, I need something quick and easy. Something I can sew up in...
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Sewing Machine Maintenance ~ Do you or don't you?
I think most sewists know the basics of sewing machine maintenance - changing your needles often, keeping your tension disks free of lint and thread, checking your bobbin casing and adding oil if your...
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OFCG: Prepping the Fabrics
I knew the minute I touched my fat quarters that I would be making dresses with them. One ~ some days it does feel like spring will eventually arrive and my pants get shelved during nicer weather. Two...
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Saturday Morning Diary Bits ~ April 2014
First I made it through! Didn't kill anyone. Didn't get fired. Didn't quit. Made it through two extremely stressful weeks of work. I knew I was reaching the end because I've started to think of sewing...
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Resurrection
I'm gonna be honest...there will be very little sewing in this post. I think I'm writing it for me because it's the way I'm feeling right now. It's just a bunch of thoughts that's been running...
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OFQC: Pattern Alterations & Update
I started working on the first dress and I'm going to be frank and upfront, the dress front sucks. Seriously sucks. So much so that I'm doubting my ability to sew. This is part of the reason that I...
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Workroom Social's Manhattan Pop-up Studio, May 2-4
I don't know if you've heard but Jennifer who runs Workroom Social is holding an amazing sewing workshop next weekend May 2-4th in Manhattan!There will be classes by some of our favorite...
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Sunday in the sewing cave...
Four days on antibiotics and I still don't feel like myself. I spent yesterday catching up on things around the house that culminated with a trip to Home Depot. Taking care of a house is a lot of...
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Thoughts while hemming...
I don't know about you but my mind wanders when I have a lot of hand hemming to do to finish a garment. True Confession: I use to hate the hemming and finishing bits of a garment because they took so...
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Seeing the future of sewing!
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by one of the Sewing Instructors at Fabricland in North Plainfield, NJ. Every year they host a "Project Fabricland" contest for their students ages 12-18. This...
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About Last Night
Saturday Night was the Workroom Social Manhattan Pop Up Swap Meet and Party ~ and what a party it was! It was a rainy Saturday evening in New York City and everyone must have been on the street or in...
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Looking Good Every Day...
The author of the book is Nancy Nix-Rice, who contacted me and asked me to review the book. I've known of Nancy for years and have a copy of the first version of this book. So I was thrilled to...
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A few updates...
I'm finally sewing that's why this post is appearing later in the evening. My daughters asked what I wanted for Mother's Day and I said a quiet weekend. So we have no plans for tomorrow. I've spent...
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And The Book Goes To...
....Sew Great!Would you kindly leave your email address in the comments section and I will contact you regarding your address. I will get the book out to you this week.Even though I asked for quiet and...
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My AT Black Lace Ponte Dress
It has taken me way longer than usual to finish this dress. I really wanted to finish it a couple of weekends ago but I had so many things happening that when I finally made it to the sewing cave, I...
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I have plans...loads of plans...
...and finally I have some time to work on them. This weekend I will be making more basics using some pretty fabrics from the collection...The lavender will become a TNT dress. Can't decide if I want...
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A Fabric Gift
Y'all know that I love fabric! I love the possibilities and the journeys that fabric can take you on. I like owning it. Manipulating it. Taking it from it's one dimensional form and turning it into...
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