Me Made May, Kids Clothes week, Sew Weekly, Skirt Week, Spring Top Week, the Ready To Wear Fast, or my own Sew & Tell Saturday I used to host here on the blog…. I’ve done them all and have been doing so off and on since soon after I started blogging in 2010. And have […]
A Modern Mad Hatter
This week’s theme for Project Run and Play was to make an outfit inspired by a child’s story book. Gigi wanted me to make something from Alice And Wonderland, and I wanted to make something from one her favorite books, The English Roses. So I’m doing kind of a mix up of the Mad Hatter […]
Oktoberfest Crop Top
This was fun project because it involved teaching my older daughter a bit of pattern drafting and sewing. She wanted a cropped peasant blouse inspired by a little vintage German style folk dress she loves wearing but which is falling apart. I was having a hard time figuring out what she wanted, so I asked […]
Drafting a lace bodice over bustier from scratch: Rosarios first muslin
Hi readers! I have a new sewing adventure this week. Isabelle’s classmate from high school, the lovely Rosario, is getting married! I’ve know her since she was a tween, and boy does time fly, doesn’t it? Rosario already bought a dress at BHLDN in Beverly Hills but after that, she realized she didn’t like it […]
Pattern drafting : Simple boned bodice A line dress
I finished Lily’s boned bodice and a line skirt dress and she likes it! This is the finished result and part three of my process of creating a pattern from scratch. In part one I draped the bodice to the dress form and created a paper pattern. In part two I cut it out of […]
My Free Leather skirt pattern in this month’s Sew News Magazine
As some of you know, I’ve been writing articles for the American sewing magazine Sew News , for the past year and a half. So far I’ve written about eight articles, and have had one of my projects featured on a cover last spring, which was really cool. Last year, I appeared on their PBS […]
Taking apart a ready to wear jacket to make a pattern.
As you may have read, I’m participating in the Pattern Review Sewing Bee! I made it through to round 3 and this week’s challenge is to create a lined jacket. I love these contests, because they push me to try things I’ve been mulling over, but am probably too lazy to try without a deadline […]
Shibori hand dyed button front jumpsuit with drawstring
It’s been quit a week! But somehow I managed to get my jumpsuit done last night in time to enter it into the Pattern Review Sewing Bee. You should see my house! I should be cleaning it right now instead of blogging, but I just want to eek out my shiftlessness a tiny bit longer […]
Fringed Hand Sewn Leather Bucket Bag Tutorial
Hi readers ! This is going to be a long post where I will attempt to explain to you how I sewed my fringed leather bucket entirely by hand. I’ll be including the cutting dimensions and entire process of making this bag, which is my own design and evolved as I made it. I love […]
DIY workout wear
February 1st I joined an eight week fat loss contest at my gym. I’ve been gaining about a pound a year since my late thirties, and I wanted to do something about it. Sometimes I need a contest to get me motivated and it’s working! I’ve cleaned up my diet and am trying to get […]