A 28-year old dress gets new life as a duster vest, with a new color, new batik design This dress began life likely in a factory in China in about 1990. It’s a heavyweight linen, cotton and rayon blend. It’s…

Favorite FREE summer top sewing patterns for woven fabrics This roundup showcases the Sew News / Sew Daily Antero Shell, the FREE Solee Top by Natalie Ebaugh and the FREE Greenbush Top by Ann Siegle. Summer top sewing is always…

Build your me made capsule wardrobe FAST by sewing multiple pants at once. I’m sewing the Pietra Pants by Closet Core Patterns It’s no secret, we love efficiency. And today, when you’re waiting days to buy something on line, you…

What do you sew for a casual work from home wardrobe when you want to be stylish and put together? Choose to sew basic garments in nice fabrics, build on what you already have, create cohesive trios of patterns and…

Sew a spring break road trip capsule wardrobe for the mid-Atlantic coast Luna Pants – woven jogger pants by Made by Rae Toaster Sweater – turtleneck by Sew House Seven Unfolding Jacket – woven oversized jacket by Wiksten Miracle Pants…

Pattern review for the Cambria Duster by Friday Pattern Company by Ann Siegle of Sew Paradise I picked up the Cambria Duster and some camel windowpane linen fabric to make a chic duster / trench style coat with a dramatic…

Luna woven jogger pants sewing pattern by Made by Rae Sew Along by Ann Siegle I’ll be sewing the Luna pants pattern by Made by Rae (no affilliation, yada, yada) this month. It’s the Pattern of the Month (March 2021)…

This tee is a rectanglar top that can be worn as a bateau neck tee or a poncho (depending on how you finish the top). The Greenbush Top is a quick no-pattern one-yard poncho kimono rectangular top sewing pattern is…

I make things in threes, and I’ve sewn three Toaster Sweaters by Sew House Seven and will probably make three (or a dozen) more! This comfortable, slightly cropped banded hem and sleeve sweater is a fun, EASY sew even for…

Sew each pattern three times for maximum enjoyment and use out of your sewing patterns. I’ve begun a new sewing approach that I got from one of the Sew News editors: sew it three times! Why sew it three times?…

First off, let’s acknowledge that in great British English, a vest is a Gilet, because it sound so much cooler than vest. A vest is what you wear over your athletic clothes, and it’s great, but a gilet, well, that’s…