….at the American Sewing Guild’s 2020 Conference in San Antonio, scheduled for July 9 – 12, 2020. The conference brochure is not live yet due to coronavirus concerns, obviously. If you are an ASG member, you should have received an update about the conference in the ASG members-only online Notions newsletter. In their words: … Read More I Signed Up to Teach…. (Micro Post #3)
Excuse my rant, friends. I should be allowed to do that in the age of Covid-19 and stay home orders. What I will not do is name these businesses because they, too, are dealing with the Covid effect; I do want them to be successful even though as a customer and consumer of the products… Read More Unsatisfactory Sewing Products
Comforting a cancer patient is hard during the time of Shelter-in-Place and Social-Distancing orders. Especially when the patient is a cousin with whom one grew up with – who is almost a sister. What could I do for her besides make infrequent calls? Infrequent, because chemotherapy effects can make one weak and disinclined to talk… Read More Caftan (or Kaftan)
Hi fellow sewers! As JFK once said, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country”. I may have paraphrased the quote here. Well, home seamstresses are the most empathetic, patriotic people I know, who’ll respond to anyone who needs help, let alone their country’s entire health… Read More Links for The Big Mask Make of 2020
Micro post #2. 300 words. I’ve sewn many traditional shirt-sleeve plackets, neck plackets that neatly (or messily) end in a pointed end or a square end with diagonal stitching lines sewn in an X. A placket is still my least favorite thing to sew. This one (below) was not a miss, but not a hit… Read More Sewing Plackets Can be so Hit or Miss
222 words You are reading these words on WordPress, the blogging platform I use. WordPress is like the Disneyland of the blogging world – the experts are “Happiness Engineers”. The HEs just advised their WordPress users to consider creating “micro” content (under 1000 words) as an option because it might hold the readers’ interest better… Read More Its True. I Actually Wear What I Make (Micro Post)
I live to watch obnoxious people create exquisite fashion; and currently I’m wallowing in a slew of fashion-design and sewing reality shows on TV. I am in hog heaven. Here are the shows, in no particular order: Project Runway, Season 18 on Bravo every Thursday at 8pm Central time. The original! I’ve been watching PR… Read More Indulging in Sewing and Fashion Design TV
The Schiaparelli pocket has found a home – an unfinished one, but a home nonetheless. For the new readers who are wondering about the Schiaparelli pocket, go to my fun little post back here. Meanwhile, I’m letting everyone in on the unfinished jacket which is now a forever home for the coolest patch pocket ever! … Read More A Home for the Schiaparelli Pocket
Hi friends! This is going to be a quick tip, or trick or whatever you want to call it. I call it a NOWEK (see title) idea. It can be in the sustainability category, a quick sew category, or both. Go here for another NOWEK idea ….. Here goes: While making a pair of loosey… Read More Pre-made Collection of Elastic Waistbands. NOWEK (No One Will Ever Know) Idea.
Neon is just one of the trends being touted out there for spring 2020. And, . for the “oh-no-the-eighties-are-back crowd”, hang with me; I am putting myself in the neon realm. But first…. 2019 Update: Last year in a sewing group I frequent, Roz of Sew Much Fabric guided attendees through finding a style icon… Read More My Neon Spring
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