If you don't know yet, I've moved! Hop on over to A Fashionable Stitch and start partaking in the fun. This is the very last blog post for the Cupcake Goddess, so if you want to still read ...
Whos ready to get their verve on with a sewing project? Havent sewn anything in a really long time? Brand new to sewing and need a little direction? Hop on over to A Fashionable Stitch and get joinin...
image source Dearest Readers, After much deliberation, meditation, tears, excitement, joy, laughter and the like Ive decided to move to a new domain. This post was supposed to go up Monday, but we al...
Gosh! It seems like every week just flies by these days! Wow! Ive been in the middle of something serious - moving. A virtual move, but nonetheless, its a HUGE thing for me. Ill be announcing it offi...
Whatever happened to the belt and buckle kits of yesteryear? I remember coming upon my very first belt and buckle kit in a thrift store. Oh the excitement! The tingling fingers, flutters in my heart....
1920s flapper dress - image source The past two weeks its been shift pattern madness in the shop and youve seen my muslin of the shift dress Im working on. So what exactly is a shift dress? A sack? A...
Ive been a little starry eyed about shift dresses lately. Probably because, as you know, I have seen several by now. I decided to save one for myself to try out. Enter the Vogue Valentino. Ive been d...
image source Sorry for my absence and the lack of post about the shift dress! Ive been feeling a bit blue, and a bit under the weather. Hate to say it, but its a girl thing you know. Sigh....still I ...
I had a very interesting question emailed to me from a reader and I thought it was worthy of a post, especially as I posted about working with silk last week. "Whats an alternative to silk?"...
Its time I asked you some questions. Some serious questions about future items you would like to see at A Fashionable Stitch. Ive got 10 questions that I would be so delighted if you would answer for...
Hot! Hot! Hot! My pincushions are getting around! If you havent already, head on over to the Sew Weekly where Im giving away 2 pincushions - 1 wrist pincushion and 1 tomato pincushion. And dont forge...
Just letting you know that there is a great giveaway of one of my brand new wrist pincushions over at The Snug Bug! Its only proper as Pattys the one who put the bug in my ear for these. Dash on over...
Im so so so excited to finally be releasing a new product at A Fashionable Stitch. These have been a long time in the making. In fact, to pinpoint the exact moment was when Patty over at the Snug Bug...
It was snowing the day I took these shots. I was just about to walk out the door with a flute friend to go and look at some duet music and thought I should, at least, take 2 or 3 shots of this somewh...
Alot of shift dresses came into my possession last week! Admittedly, this is not a design I have ever really favored, but after seeing many many patterns and sort of delving into the world of shift d...
After posting my Modern Geisha dress on The Sew Weekly, I saw a few comments and received a few emails about working with silk. Totally petrified to work with silk? Lets see if we cant change that a ...
Scored some seriously fabulous 60s vintage patterns this week! Take a look at this Chester Weinberg pattern. How sweet is this? Ive been on a serious kick with aqua, white and red. What a cheery spri...
It was a few weeks ago when Mena from The Sew Weekly emailed me about the Common Thread series going on over at her blog. I was instantly intrigued and was totally excited to be apart ...
I thought I would start a little something new here. Wheels start turning and ideas start popping into my head and things Ill never have time to do need to find a way to get out. So maybe this will i...
One of the biggest reasons I like working with fibers such as silk, wool and linen is because I get to iron them. Crazy, no? I love ironing. Its strange, I know, considering its the bane of many peop...
meet the winner and go visit her rather up and coming blog for more of her unbelievable creations Its time to announce the Shabby Apple winner of the Spanish Steps Dress. Are you ready? Im totally je...
Just a little reminder that the Shabby Apple Giveaway ends today! Make sure you read my post on how to enter and win a free Spanish Steps Dress! xoxo, Sunni
Yesterday, you saw the blouse where I applied these lovelies. Today, Im going to show you how to make your own hand worked buttonholes. This is a technique Ive done on a few different garments and ev...
Ta da! Here is the blouse Ive been working on so feverishly for the past little while. It really wasnt hard, in fact it was sooooo easy. I have a white one that needs to be finished and I think it mi...
Today is a very good day. Awhile back Shabby Apple contacted me and asked me to host a giveaway for one of my readers to win one of their womens dresses! Now how fabulous is that? One of you is going...
As Im just finishing up my bow blouse (vintage Simplicity 7896), I thought I would show you how I handle facings on a blouse. Typically, womens blouses call for a facing down the front of the shirt w...
Good news! The shop is finally official. Its a registered LLC. With a fresh new name - A Fashionable Stitch. Youll find it in the same place, just giving my shop a more direct focus. Im terribly exci...
Spring is in the air! I was able to snap a shot of this fat little dove that was perched out on my balcony railing. Please excuse the white trash railing which is missing parts and such. Thats apartm...
This past Friday, I was out fabric shopping. Now, I know that you know that I need fabric like a hole in my head, but this was for very specific projects which are coming up here and here. With these...
The shop is finally at full speed again. Well again is probably not the best word as now Im doing this full-time and have never done that before. I have to admit, this first week has been sort of str...
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