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Working with border prints
My Smugglers Daughter dress/Vogue 8972 bodice is made using part of a border print. The next dress I want to sew using my Milly fabric will also be made from a border print. And over the years I've...
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Cutting out Vogue 8972
The interesting thing about this pattern is that I chose to use three different fabrics for the dress ~ a border print for the top ~ a gray medium weight linen for the center band ~ and a black mid...
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Do you Google?
Or more specifically, do you google requests for sewing techniques? I'm wondering because I read someone's opinion specifically asking why do we need more beginner sewing books when you can google...
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Remembering the Elders or the Sewists who've gone before...
Lately, I've been having conversations with my sewing friends and acquaintances about "Remembering The Elders." Sometimes I think we get so caught up in the here and now, and don't realize that people...
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Burda Style Webinar ~ Learning to Fit Using a TNT Pattern
Join me on Thursday, July 24th at 11am EST for a 60 minute seminar on "How to Fit Using Your Tried 'n True Patterns." To register for the seminar, please check out this link.I posted this to my...
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The Curvy Sewing Collective
I am so thrilled with the curvy sewists who came up with this idea and then made it happen! Check it out here!Finally there's a place that caters to the curvy and plus size sewist helmed by these...
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A Carefree Summer Afternoon...
I don't shop much in the garment district anymore...mainly because by the time I get off work...most of the shops are closed. Since I rarely have a proper lunch hour, when I go at "lunch time" I'm...
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Some Shorts for Danny...
My daughter and her family are going to Myrtle Beach for a few days of vacation later this week. Danny is growing by leaps and bounds and needs some new shorts. So while she and the grandkids were...
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The Charles James Exhibit at The Met
I love The Met Ball and every year look forward to the theme and the dresses. But even more than The Met Ball and the amazing fashions, is the fact that the Ball heralds the opening of a new fashion...
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Learning to Fit Using Your Tried 'n True Patterns
Today is the last day to register for the seminar! I really hope you will join me tomorrow at 11 am!...as always more later!
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Unselfish Sewing
I don't know if you've noticed but I did take vacation this week. Usually I hype these days up in my mind and here on the blog, because they're 7-8 days of uninterrupted sewing bliss. Not so this...
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I've Got Some Catching Up to do!
In one way, I know it's been a week since I last posted...but in another the days seem to be whirling by...cause peoples it's August 2nd already! So this is going to be a catch up post. Then because I...
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The Side to Side Border Print Dress
How about a completed garment post from me? I know it's been a minute since one has appeared here...somewhere in there my sewing mojo just up and went on vacation! *LOL* But it showed back up for the...
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Butterick 5821 - Summer Version
My winter version of this dress was made in January 2013. I used a laminated ponte knit for the first one. This version is all linen with a little sumthin' sumthin'.Supplies ~Fabric ~Black 'n white...
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Pimping Out My Ironing Board Cover
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a new ironing board after my older one faltered. I set it up and started to use it when I realized something was missing. See I'd added extra padding to my old ironing...
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The Pieced Four Gore Skirt
There was a little less than a yard of the black n white polka dot linen, and I didn't want to consign it to the scrap bin. Especially since the white fabric scrap was still out and I thought the two...
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The Smugglers Daughter Dress or Vogue 8972
About two months ago, I eagerly started this dress. I made all of the pattern alterations which were quite extensive and detailed them in this post and this one. Then there was the post on how to use...
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Linings...
Lately I've been cutting my linings out after I've assembled my garment. I started doing this because I wanted to make sure that I captured any changes I made to my garment shell. However, I've found...
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Sewing Miscellany
Just a few thoughts that have been running through my mind over the last couple of days...Do you touch fabric or a completed garment and it's whole history flashes through your mind? Do you remember...
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Sleeve Embellishment
The summer version of Butterick 5821 is my favorite piece of all of the garments I've made recently. It wears easily plus I love the details that I included in this dress. I especially love the...
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