Category Sew Paradise

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 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…

I managed to sew together the body parts of the cape – and lining. But in sewing them up I realized the CF plaids did NOT match. Not even close. So I had to recut (!) new CF panels. One…

The messenger bag is DONE! and it came out GREAT! I am going to retweak one little part of topstitching on the front (where the lining and the bag are sewn closed – I don’t really need topstitching there, so…

So I opened my Garment Designer software tonight to check on my design for the long cardi (after seeing a woman walk by wearing hers tonight, in a lovely mint green color) and I have no less than THREE of…

Yesterday I wore a sweatercoat that’s too big for me. and it looked sloppy. So I decided what would make me feel good would be to draft one that does fit. What I like in a sweatercoat is a fitted…