Whats more fun than getting together with fellow sewers? Getting together with fellow sewers to participate in a focus group, the subject being how to revamp Moods website to be the destination...
I saw this post this morning http://keepitchic .com/ on the website Keep It Chic on loving white jeans. The images struck me as fresh and appealing. Of course the pictures show t...
With color that is. Almost everything in my wardrobe can be worn with black or gray. I have one pair of brown tweed pants and a few things that go with them, but thats it. Last year...
When I get a new pattern I immediately, well as soon as possible, start reading the instructions. I know sewing nerd here. I dont always use the instructions but I like to see if there ar...
Vogue came out with new patterns this week and I managed to buy a few on sale. I missed the last day of the regular sale but gave in and bought a Club BMV membership. They have finally included...
Hubris does come back to haunt you and in the case of making jeans its certainly bit me on the ass. I was so sure that I could make a better fitting pair than the jeans from Net a Porter I post...
Lots of sewing has been going on, mostly for my unexpected trip to Austin to see Alex and spend her birthday together. My wonderful husband surprised me with tickets and I was there last week d...
American Idol has never been on our tv watching agenda until now when we actually know one of the contestants. Jen Hirsh is my nephews girlfriend who we met in California last summer. &nb...
My jeans obsession has taken up a lot of my time, that and the muslins for my leather jacket as well, and I need some clothing! To that end I have been making tops based on my tnt t shirt patte...
When my daughter was young I rarely made clothing for her. She couldnt stand still and if I should poke here with a pin? Forget it. She was pretty awful. Now, she considers cl...
I procrastinated on renewing my Burda subscription because there were just too many issues in 2011 that I hadnt made or even wanted to make, one thing from. I finally gave in and renewed in tim...
Why do I never remember to take photos at workshops? I dont know, so there are no photos of my wonderful day of fitting with Kenneth King yesterday. Sew Right in Bayside, Queens has regul...
Happy New Year everyone. We had a quiet end of year with friends not far from home. Great company and good food. For years I had a love hate relationship sewing knits. I rarel...
While Ive sewn a lot in the past couple of weeks I have nothing to show for it or rather nothing to wear for it. Not fun. I put aside my jeans until more cheap inexpensive denim ar...
When one is over confident it usually ends in a fall. At least with me and pants! I finally have a tnt pattern for trousers, but jeans have eluded me. I am on my 4th pair, the first...
The Brentwood campus of Suffolk Community College on Wicks Road is hosting a Home Show this weekend. Ill be hosting in the booth I designed for John Sparrow Landscapes. Its free and if yo...
These jeans sell for $560 on Net a Porter. Yes, they are by Chloe, but they dont fit her very well. See those wrinkles in the crotch? Ouch! I think I can do better than this a...
The last time I won something? Well I cant remember, that is until today when I opened my Hot Patterns e mail. It is their 6th anniversary and if you buy a pattern during the month of Sep...
Weve had a busy summer: a wedding in California, visiting family, meaning Jakob of course, and having computer issues, all of which pushed blogging to the bottom of the list. I did ...
The chicken or the egg, do men not sew because they arent interested or because there are so few patterns available to them? Thats been a discussion on sewing boards and several blo...
Augusts Burda Style Magazine arrived yesterday. My husband gets the mail at our PO box before he goes to work. If my new Burda is there he leaves it and calls to tell me its in the ...
Its been over a month since I last posted. Between work and getting my outfit finished, something had to give and blogging was it. I finished my outfit for my nieces wedding, ...
A few months ago, after I took KKs moulage class I needed to learn how to use the resulting slopers. I wanted to use them to adjust commercial patterns so I bought Lynda Maynards cd book De-Mystifyi...
This morning over coffee I was reading Carolyns blog Diary of a Sewing Fanatic and she was talking about how you become an advanced stitcher, a term I found on a blog new to me, Tilly and the Buttons...
My weekend was spent sewing, taking advantage of the cool weather that is not lasting much longer. I basted my silk organza underlining to my fabric. Ive done this for silk pa...
Atlanta Thread had a sale last month and I took advantage. I bought the prosaic, some thread and shoulder pads. Kenneth King likes their needle punch pads. Then came the biggi...
Its been nothing but disasters in the sewing room lately. Not all of them my fault. Got all my silk organza jacket underlining cut out and marked and went to lay it out on my fabric...
My drafting skills are just not that good and while, not a wadder, its taking up entirely too much of my limited time considering the amount of time I have left to make the main event, th...
Waiting to be sewn are a muslin of the jacket for my nieces wedding(havent even cut this out), a wearable muslin to test the alteration I made to the pants and a hopefully wearable muslin of th...
Burda 115 8/10 may very well be my new tnt knit top. This is the same pattern as the white top, but a single layer with the lower of the two necklines. Even though summer is approaching, ...
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