I’ve written down three challenges for myself over the next few years: Challenge 1: The Vogue Elements Wardrobe: One Year. 22 patterns. All stash. Challenge 2: The thing that started this blog: the “I can sew it faster than washing…
Plaids matched, finally done…and it’s now 30 degrees out all the time. Sigh. It will warm up to 40s (where I feel a cape is best suited). Burda World of Fashion 8/08 issue, it appears there as a longer cape…
They’re done! And a nice job too! Click on the image for a big one 😉 I love these Christine Jonson jackets – they go together so well, so easily, and she offers such great finishing techniques like sewing down…
I looked up while bathing my toddler to see a perfect capsule wardrobe hanging from the back of my closet! A pair of what I’ll call “digital herringbone” pants in black and white, a tan and brown abstract print knit…
Once these UFOs are taken care of, I’m going to move on to a few easy things – all tops. First on the list are a few of the CJ tops – a brown stretch velvet princess top. Same one…
I have three items in the UFO pile and that’s it. I’m working on the two CJ fitted jackets that I started at least three years ago, if not more. I’m also altering the PJ’s I worked on last winter.…
This afternoon, I’m reaching (not far, just across my desk) and I feel and hear rrrrip! My first thought is the lining of my BWoF cropped jacket has torn out. but then I realize it’s the 20-year old Ann Taylor…
I recut a fourth (fifth?) panel and voila, almost a perfect match for the other side! It looks great, it’s done. It calls for topstitching, around the collarband, but I am not sure I’ll do that. I will post a…
I have picked out three new pairs of shoes. Well, one new pair, and two others I like. They’re all based on that Sketchers mary jane shoe that’s so popular (that I’ve had for a long time, in light blue…
I removed the offending unmatched plaid panel. Pinned my second one in, not a match. The vertical plaid is along the seamline, and on the other side, it’s two inches over. Cut another one, but cut it too much on…
The cape is almost done. I took the morning to finish it up (it’s my wednesday day off, babe is at day care til noon as usual). I’m doing the hand openings and then independently machine hemming the lining and…
I don’t know that I could have expected to show up at a local asg and see anything different than the national one – mainly women who are much older than I am, and a lot of quilts and surface…