Do you have orphan quilt blocks in your stash? It’s time to make a unique quilted jacket with those orphan blocks! Whether they were passed down to you from previous generations of sewists or are left over from your own or a friend’s quilt making project, we’ve got some great…
Over the next few weeks we will be bringing you information about classes and events we are participating in this fall. As you probably already know, Fall is a great time for sewing education. Today we will focus on the upcoming Association of Sewing and Design Professionals conference, October 15…
Here are Fit for Art’s Tips for cutting and sewing Double Gauze for cool tops. Because this fabric is one of Rae’s daughter’s favorites, she has been stitching up Carpe Diems for Anna for 3 years, including during her maternity and nursing days. Double gauze is a double faced fine…
Our Enchanting France-Embellishing Fabric begins today and La Cascade is ready for the retreat participants to arrive. While it is a pleasure to prepare for our retreat there is a lot of details that need to be confirmed. Rae has been on the ground for the last 3 weeks and…
This summer we are having some Carpe Diem Fun! As we move through our upcoming week at the La Cascade French Retreat, watch and see how many Carpe Diems we have to wear. Do you notice any new trends? There is a variation pattern in the works, and we hope…
The 100 Day project is an invention, made easy by the internet, where folks join a community of creative souls to work for 100 days on a skill or project they want to try. Every person is doing their own thing – some hope to establish a daily practice, some…
It does seem that every fashion comes back around eventually, and this year we’ve been noticing a lot of cropped wide leg pants, just like the culottes of our youth. In this installment of our occasional series “Inspired by Pinterest,” Carrie relates how she was inspired by Pinterest to create…
Rae and Carrie both love Shirt Variations for the Tabula Rasa Jacket. But great can always be made even better, so over the last couple of years Rae has fiddled with hers to create a more open neck version that is cool and comfortable in summer fabrics. Here is a…
We are just back from Road2VA Quilter’s Conference and Showcase where we talked a lot about the samples from our book. In this blog we will take a look at making the Assorted Patchwork Jacket sleeves. This jacket is Project #3 in Sewing Quilted Patchwork Jackets, but it was the…
The last time Rae tried a Tee Shirt Redesign and wrote about it was 2016 and the post is titled Snazzy Baltimore Tunic. This story of a redesign is similar, but enough different that it seemed like a fun feature as we focus on summer knit sewing. There are just…
Carpe Diem Dress & Tunic
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