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Tag: Sewing
Bookshed: Dressmaking for Real Women
Lorna Knight’s Dressmaking for Real Women: How to Adapt Your Store-bought Patterns to Flatter the Curves You Want to Keep and Drape the Ones You Don’t is a book that I wish was on my shelf when I started sewing garments a couple of… Continue Reading “Bookshed: Dressmaking for Real Women”
Skirt city…..
No matter the time of year, I tend to lean pretty heavily on the basic skirt as part of my wardrobe. Dresses off the rack have rarely worked for me because I’m either too short or too booby or too whatever for them –… Continue Reading “Skirt city…..”
Sewing Notebook: The (Un)Wedding Quilt!
Finally! I have been itching to show off this quilt for the last week and a half since I finished it, but because it was an un-wedding present for two of our closest friends I was worried that to parade it online would spoil… Continue Reading “Sewing Notebook: The (Un)Wedding Quilt!”
An autumn quilt in time for summer.
As part of my spring cleaning, I have been tackling my unfinished object pile in the sewing room. Some things ended up going in the garbage right away, but others – like this quilt – went back into the finishing basket. Until yesterday! When… Continue Reading “An autumn quilt in time for summer.”
First fabric stencil…..
First the dreaming. Then the learning. Here is my first stencil – cut and inked three times on some hemp-rayon jersey that arrived in the mail today. It’s my practice fabric but I’m hoping I can do some stencil layers and turn this into… Continue Reading “First fabric stencil…..”
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