Keeping a sewing 'done list'
This is somewhat of a follow-on to my last post: 'Making time to sew'. At work I came across Oliver Burkeman's blog and, in particularly,...
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Making time to sew
For those of you who are wondering and/or have asked me - yes, I am still working on the Tamarack Jacket. Four months and counting...I...
Part 2: the Tamarack Jacket by Grainline Studio - making quilting mistakes
I have been slowly, but diligently working on the Tamarack Jacket by Grainline Studio. In my last post I discussed how the fabric was...
Part 1: the Tamarack Jacket by Grainline Studio - attempting to quilt
I looked back on my emails and I had ordered the pattern for Grainline Studio's Tamarack Jacket on September 11 of this year. Amongst...
McCall's Hazel dress (M7774)
For the past few weeks I have been sewing McCall's Hazel dress C pattern (M7774). This is a misses dress, so I sewed a size 12 for...
TUTORIAL: Eye mask with pattern
In case you want to skip the introduction and go straight to the good stuff, here's the pattern: Andddd: a link to the materials a link...
Purposely choosing fabric for the Whittaker dress by Merchant & Mills
This past week I was in New York City visiting a good friend of mine while continuing my currently nomadic lifestyle. While there, I got...
Back from my travels
I'm back! I got back home about 2 weeks ago after a 7 week roadtrip! It was amazing and everything I hoped it could be. 2 weeks each in...
What I brought with me on the road
Good morning from the Denver area! My cousin and I arrived on Saturday night to a lovely little neighborhood outside of Denver where my...
On-the-road sewing
Two days ago my cousin and I headed out on a cross-country roadtrip. As I write this, we are in Nebraska almost to our first destination:...
Pleasant Activity Scheduling
I recently learned of something called 'pleasant activity scheduling' from the Mentally Strong People podcast by Amy Morin. In her 49th...
Finished the Calvin Wrap Dress!
I think that was a first for me - I started and finished a complicated (for me) sewing projects in about 2 weeks (I accidentally left...
Batik fabric from Ghana
This week I have been making just the top pattern of the Calvin Wrap Dress by TrueBias. I chose a fabric I bought probably 11-13 years...
You won't know until you try
I finished it! Earlier this month I posted about going sew-rogue and trying to sew a shirt (err ok, it turned into a dress) without a...
Making progress on the Calvin Wrap dress
I am just a few steps away from completing the Calvin Wrap Dress by TrueBias. I have really enjoyed making it. I used to dread having to...
Buy yourself a rotary cutter
After I had my sewing machine for a few years and I had dilly-dallied with making very very simple things like tablecloths and...
On making mistakes
Mistakes are how we grow in sewing, much like how we grow in everything in our lives. Yesterday as I was going sew-rogue I made many,...
Going sew-rogue
Today I spent a good portion of the day messing around with an idea for a shirt in my mind. However, what I got was a dress! And not a...
Fabric tingles again
Get a medium-weight fabric that has a shiny side to it and join two pieces together. Consider the shiny side as the 'right' side. Then...
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