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…
A revolutionary way to sew a capsule wardrobe you love – EASILY Planning a wardrobe is easy. I use the Pick One, Sew Two method that I wrote for Christine Jonson Patterns. I pick ONE item in my closet and…
Recapping a #MakeNine for 2020 Maybe more accurately, make 18 or 24! The sewing world and crafting world usually abounds with #MakeNine in the later part of December and early January as sewists, knitters and crocheters, crafters of all kinds…
In your laundry room! In the spring of 2020, we all locked down. My spouse moved home, he took over his desk in our shared home office, our kids started doing school in the playroom and I moved to my…
What do I wear now? Sewing wardrobe planning for a post-pandemic work-from-home-life For most of us, the pandemic has caused a permanent shift in worklife. If your company hasn’t completely shifted to remote work, you may now be offered the…
Oh how we miss our lives before. Will they ever be the same again? There’s a blazer hanging in my closet. I sewed it myself. Fellow blazer friends of it also hang nearby, they were also made by me. I…
The “paperbag” style elasticated drawstring waistband is super popular right now. And it’s a SUPER easy hack too! Any elastic waistband skirt or pant pattern. A ruler Some tracing or large-format paper (even newspaper will work fine.) A pencil/pen/marker Fabric…
“The Stack” One of my favorite RTW brands, J. Crew, does this thing called “the Stack”. A stack of curated essentials / capsule wardrobe. They photograph it as a stack and show you how the pieces work together. I know…
We love Maxi Dresses in the summer! But we also don’t love wearing a bra in summer’s heat or wearing one peeking out of the dress spaghetti straps. Fortunately, even if your dress doesn’t come with an option, it’s easy…
Using a precious fabric bought on an Italian vacation, I made a sewing mistake. And I fixed my sewing mistake to become one of my favorite summer outfits! Around the corner and up two twisty blocks from the Duomo in…
Use any straight elastic-waist skirt to create a trendy midi skirt with shirt-tail curved hem. Sew it in your favorite knit or woven fabric. You’ll need five things: a basic pull on skirt with elastic waist. I used the Christine…
I sewed my second Scout Tee from Grainline Studio this week. This one, in a raspberry silk noil I sewed in a smaller size than my printed cotton voile one here. Both fabrics I purchased from Seams Fabric in East…