If you know me, you also know that I love, love fashion and sewing history. That means that I collect publications like this one. It is Vogue Patterns Magazine dated December 1947/January 1948 with Holiday oriented content. I consider it an important and exciting piece of history. Here are some images from the magazine for… Read More Nothing’s New
It’s tip time again! This time from a book long out of print from a pattern company long out of business. I wish Spadea Pattern Company was still operating since their designs were all from well known designers. The book referred to in the blog title is “The Spadea Sewing Book. Sewing Tips by World… Read More 3 Sewing Tips from a Vintage Sewing Book
Technically, my family does not observe the Christmas holiday. Non-observance notwithstanding, I am so in love with sewing and crafting Christmas items. I get into the spirit of it even though there is no Christmas tree in my window and no strings of lights on my house. But then, any holiday in my family, even… Read More Christmas Crafts and the Non-Christian Crafter
Dear readers, thank you for visiting. This post is about a humbling episode in my sewing life, and an educational one. It’s a lesson in picking your sewing battles. A cover for a set of patio chairs in the backyard has been on my sewing list for a while. The original cover was very cheap vinyl and pretty much disintegrated with… Read More The Outdoor Project and Sewing Lessons Learned
Hi Readers! Thank you for visiting. Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving! The kurta is complete, and my Mother can now wear it — finally. If you missed the last post about cutting out a kurta, click right here. If you want to go further back and read general information about it, here is that post.… Read More Kurta Construction: Sew Done!
Dear readers, thank you for visiting. It’s time for a monthly dose of sewing tips on The Sew Everything Blog! I’ve included a form again for your own sewing tip to be included in a future post in our ongoing Sewing Tips Series. Of course, if you have a website or blog, I will link… Read More 5 Sewing Tips: Plain and Simple, Part 3
Hi Readers, thank you for visiting! Posted here for your pleasure are fabric and cutting details for the South Asian kurta. If you’ve missed earlier posts about it, you can read them here and here. Feel free to ask any questions in the comment section! Measurements: the only two needed measurements are shoulder width and desired length… Read More Kurta Construction: Cutting Out
What do coins, CDs, food skewers, toothpicks and knit fabric have in common? This…. There’s creativity, and then there is genius, uber-creative thinking which produces work like Rowan Mersh’s. In this short post, I want to share a few images of works by the English designer, as featured in the book “Fashioning Fabrics”, 2006, edited by Sandy Black,… Read More Artist Rowan Mersh and Knit Fabric
It’s a small sartorial world, after all………….. Hi Readers, I hope you enjoy this post as much as I am having fun writing it. No, really. I know you’ll enjoy it. Remember my statement in a previous post about the kurta being a uniquely South Asian tunic? Well, I’m taking it back. My friends Janith and… Read More The Kurta, the Kirtle and the Shift
Readers, thank you for visiting! I am thrilled to present sewing tips in this post submitted by two lovely readers: Janith Bergeron of The Sewing Tree and Lisa of the Stitch it Again blog! Tip #1: Find a Sewing Mentor From Lisa of Stitch it Again: Seek out a sewing mentor: Books, blogs, instruction manuals,… Read More 5 Sewing Tips (and Tools): Plain and Simple, Part 2
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