Maybe I’ve shared this with you during the past 13 years, or maybe not. The search function on my blog is coming up empty, so I may not have shared it. Well, good. I am so dang proud of this jacket! Never mind that the shoulder pads are too high for my current taste, even… Read More Revisiting Archival Corner of My Closet
This is turning out to be a brain dump of a post. Nevertheless, she persisted….. Has anyone come across iron-off carbon paper for tracing on darts, dots, triangles and other pattern markings on the wrong side of cut out pieces, i.e. the markings essential to putting together a garment? I’d love to work with a… Read More Home Sewing Industry, Notions Department, Take Note.
For purposes of this blog, let’s keep the info into the fashion sewing realm, shall we? Although, curtains and pillows are ideal candidates for SO methods. 1. It’s best to use a relatively strong 4-thread serger seam since garments need to not come apart at the stress-bearing seams such as sides, shoulder and armhole seams.… Read More Digging Further Into the Serger-Only (SO) Process
And, how to make yourself disappear into the background. Hi Readers, thank you in advance for reading. Hope you’re having a great National Sewing Month. There might be some color misuse and I’ll visit some thoughts on making this version of the Renfrew Top solely on a serger. The fabric from Sew Much Fabric feels… Read More Capsule Piece 2: Renfrew Top with Serger Only?
…… such as the brown velvet jacket, retrieved from deep in my wardrobe archives. It’s like discovering treasure, or wads of money in a forgotten pocket! Over the past 20 or so years, it has been worn minimally, probably due to the outdated look of the high, square shoulder. I hung on to it because… Read More When the New Fashion Eye Gets Accustomed to the Old…..
I’ve decided to give my smallish capsule wardrobe a name — Sand, Sea and Sky — inspired by the RTW catalog’s color theme and photography. See two posts ago. First item in the capsule pile of fabric is done in a tried and true (TNT) Renfrew Top by Sewaholic Patterns. I’ve made this top many… Read More Capsule Piece 1: The Renfrew Top
Dear Readers, a very short post today to show you what I worked on earlier this year. The secret project is thus revealed; I made this ensemble for Threads magazine’s Pattern Review section in their Fall 2026 issue. It can now be shown on my blog because the magazine is distributed. While I won’t add… Read More Short and Braggy … Still a Fashion and Sewing Post.
Read all the way to the end 🙂 From where I stand regarding wardrobe making inspiration, it’s the high end and haute couture collections that I usually gravitate to for ideas — even for everyday wear. But do I want to look like a clothing catalog? Generally, no. However, if the aesthetics of the catalog… Read More Do I Want to Look Like a Catalog?
Earlier this year, on my way back home, I ran across a garment display titled Recycled Runway, at the Indianapolis Airport — “runway”, get it? The theme was celebrating sustainable fashion during Earth month (April) by using donated garments, which were taken apart and sewn together into something new. Wait, what?? What are the chances… Read More Grade A for Effort and Ecological Spirit
This image landed in my Pinterest feed and blew me away; what was about this outfit? (It is credited to shamacollection.com). It was the high contrast brocade facing in a high-low hem. It started to live in my mind, and is now culminating in a blog post. To my eyes it gives off more polished… Read More A Faced Hem Can be Exciting.
