Dear sewing friends, I could not help the alliteration in the title. But that’s just me….. Revealed here is the ongoing construction of a class project — of an online class I signed up for back in 2010. All part of the “complete your UFOs in 2013” decision I made early this year. This online class was taught by… Read More Class for Cloning Clothing

There’s an additional title to this post:  Parenting a Parent and the Unfinished Blog Post. I began writing this with a scheduled publish date for today, but due to life interruptions caused by my dear mother’s health issues particular to her advanced age, the actual projects did not get finished. So here is a question for social media… Read More Magazine Mania: Do You Sew Projects Featured in Sewing Mags?

Dear readers, I can’t help it. Refashions somehow took over my sewing mojo in April and you get to see the results in May. Never fear. Pretty soon you’ll see some sewing items made with new fabric.  Meanwhile, so goes another re-fashion…. Just what made this blouse so stuffy and old looking? Forget that it IS an… Read More Stuffy Shirt, Cool Blouse, Peter Pan

Did they love their jobs? Or did they hate sewing machines (if they owned one)? More than 600 factory workers of Bangladesh who sewed to make a meager living, lost their lives while working in dangerous working conditions in April 2013.  Their work satisfied the most urgent need of modern folks to wear of-the-moment clothing which may or may not… Read More I’m Feeling the Sewing Connection