A Great Sewing Tool – Yardage Calc for iPhone/iTouch

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A few months ago I was on Pattern Review and  noted on an iPhone/iTouch thread that  the available sewing related apps applied only to quilting.  I was surprised that someone hadn’t written an app that recalculates yardages for garment patterns.  Well, this morning I got [...]

Be Sun Safe!

In good weather I like to  spend the day outside gardening; BUT I’m pretty sun sensitive and I never tan, my skin goes straight to a painful sunburn.   I also loathe the way sunscreen feels on my skin.  So I’d rather cover up.  Last year I found the perfect gardening hat, now I wanted a tunic [...]

McCall’s 5525 – Solved Technical Difficulties of a Different Sort

Left: Bernina foot, 20mm wide. Right: Willcox & Gibbs foot, 8mm wide

When Ann gave me this Willcox & Gibbs industrial it came with some good stuff; there were several needles (industrial machine needles are different from home machine needles) a spare belt (no servos here its belt driven), a few rather scary looking watch-those-fingers feet (see right, [...]

Your Closet at Your Fingertips

Linda Grant at The Thoughtful Dresser  blogged about this today and I literally went to the iTunes store at 6:30 this morning to buy this app!  This is the best $2.99 I’ve ever spent.  Touch Closet is an iPhone/iTouch app that organizes your closet and lets you put together outfits for future reference.   And I think [...]

True Colors: Don’t Trust That Monitor

Last week I bought a Pantone Color Guide and it’s amazing how useful it is. Savvy fabric websites like Emma One Sock and Gorgeous Fabrics already use Pantone color numbers in their fabric descriptions, and I hope this becomes a standard for all fabric and sewing trim websites (are you listening, M&J Trim and [...]

Fashion At Your Fingertips

My husband gave me an Apple iTouch for Christmas, and its wicked cool; basically its an iPhone with Internet connectivity but no phone function.  The iTunes App Store has hundreds of free apps, and fashion designers are starting to upload free iTouch apps that showcase their latest collections.  Both Chanel and Ralph Lauren are available, and Style.com has  a condensed version of their [...]

Fashion Follows Form

TLo over on Project RunGay did a post recently about Ralph Lauren’s design for the US Olympic Team.  Just my opinion here, but how many ways can you spell b-o-r-i-n-g? 

 

Honestly, those outfits made elite athletes look like trust fund schmoes straight from the Ryder Cup circa 1930.  Ascots?  Striped rep ties?  Blazers?  With that dopey crest on the front?  White golf caps? In [...]