Conventional wisdom says brown belongs in the Fall color palette. Where do these assumptions come from, anyway? Maybe the best muse for humans is mother nature where brown shows up in the autumnal palette. I’m also sure the physiological aspects of color have something to do with the conventional seasonal fashion palettes — isn’t dark… Read More Blue and Brown Palette for Summer
While making the still unfinished kurta, I went down the rabbit hole of researching the cotton double gauze. Which led me to the world of puckered fabrics. Which led me to plisse. I’m familiar with seersucker but never paid attention to “plisse”. Also, now I know to the best of my knowledge that my cotton… Read More Puckered Fabric Info — I Want to Know More
Hi, all. Hope you had a happy Mother’s Day! A slow sewing speed is the new normal in my sewing life — let’s hope it’s temporary. Therefore, I am sharing an in-progress item with you, having given up hope to finish it for wearing and sharing with you today. About this oversize neck placket: I… Read More Work In Progress, and Other (Valentino) Stuff
The fabric buying spirits, though, are alive!! This beautiful grey bamboo rib knit (and some other fabric) was recently purchased from Sew Much Fabric; I noticed a bunch of rib knit garments emerge in the fashion diaspora during the past year. Although I have never sewn a garment in ribbed fabric, I did wear a… Read More Ribbed Fabric: Medicine for Sewing Lag
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