March Plaidness
Even someone as ignorant as I am about basketball knows that we are in the season of March Madness. However, year-round I'm in the clutches of a different enthusiasm: plaids! The post March Plaidness...
View ArticleButterick 6385: Fitted, princess-seamed coat
Allow me a moment to savor my success making this cozy wool coat. The post Butterick 6385: Fitted, princess-seamed coat first appeared on Getting Things Sewn.
View ArticleMore About the Butterick 6385 Coat
Readers, Here’s the follow-up I promised about making this cozy olive-brown wool coat from Butterick 6385. For the first post on this coat go here. Fitting If there’s one point I want to get across...
View ArticleLiberty Feather-Print Shirts
Readers, How often do you come across a print that stops you in your tracks? For me, hardly ever. And when I browse online fabric vendors, I look at a lot of prints. As with other fashion products,...
View ArticleRandom Thoughts While Decluttering My Pattern Stash
Readers, Six months ago–I suspect after watching one too many YouTube videos by Dana K. White about decluttering–I tackled my pattern stash. Apparently I had reached my “clutter threshold,” as Dana...
View ArticleAdding a Touch of Provence
Readers, This is the story of a little project I’d been meaning to get around to for, oh, best guess, six years. Until this past weekend, when I finally, finally did this project, all I had to...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take?
Readers, In all my 35+ years of sewing, until yesterday, there was one simple question I was never able to answer with any degree of accuracy: how long it took me to sew something. A few years ago my...
View ArticleA Fit-and-Flare Dress: Vogue 1424
Readers, A little over two weeks ago I finished this zippy orange-red linen-cotton blend dress. I am so happy with it. This is a good example of a fit-and-flare dress, a great silhouette for my figure...
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