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Click! Click! Miss Cranky Pants is banished, this skirt managed to exorcise her! Recent projects by Gigi and Bunny inspired me to dig through my stash of heirloom trims and use them up. I did a lot of heirloom sewing when my daughters were young, but they outgrew those styles long [...] Click! Yesterday at Lord & Taylor I found the perfect belt. This is actually a stretch belt, which I really like because I like a wider belt with dresses and I’m very shortwaisted. Stretch belts are really comfortable because they don’t dig into my ribs. Love the hardware, the macrame look and the color is [...] "Moonlight Clowns" Believe it or not, I have been sewing, but nothing has been in the “interesting to blog about” category. Made a few pairs of HP Marrakesh pants to wear around the house and also made up Vogue 8936 but my serger won’t do a coverhem so that project is on hiatus [...] So what you you think? Is this style dated? It’s from 1994. I still really like it. This has been in my stash for maybe 10 years. Back in the 90′s I would have made it from slinky, fortunately today’s knits have the same great drape without slinky’s weight and tendency to [...] As promised, here is the saga of the costume Abby wore for for her solo. Moms usually don’t get involved in making costumes at this level of competition, but I ended up doing it because her choreographer wanted her to wear an orange unitard with a deep halter back and it was impossible [...] I’ve been on a sewing hiatus since December because my twin daughters are in middle school and kids need a lot of support during these years. One interesting facet of having twins and multiples is that every developmental stage is super super intense because more than one child goes through it at the [...] I learned to embroider when I was about 7, and I was maybe 14 when I made this shirt. The pattern is long gone, but it’s Big 4, probably Butterick because back in those days (and unlike today) it was actually a trendy line and my favorite. The fabric is a truly wretched synthetic pretty typical of that [...] My Burda jacket is nearly done, although yesterday I noticed some problems that need to be fixed. When I first saw this pattern I could not really understand by they rated it “thee dots” Burda’s highest difficulty level. Well now I know why. 90% of the jacket is like any other jacket, but [...] When I first began to sew one of the hardest things for me to master was choosing the right fabric for a design. While it’s true that thinking outside the box is what fashion is all about, the opposite is also true, and there are some fabrics that are just not suitable used [...] One really great thing about using an industrial machine is that it takes no time at all to whip up a muslin! I love this Burda Style jacket (8/2009); this is a petite size 20 and I made just one change by adding an extra 3/8 inch of ease through the hip in [...] |
 Phyllis - one of the original "Sewing Divas". |
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