Each month here at the Sew! Let’s get Dressed Blog we are bringing you some insider info about the projects in our book Sewing Quilted Patchwork Jackets. This post is about the inspiration and materials for what we nicknamed “Kids Modern”, the adorable kid size Wholecloth and Collage Opus Jacket,…
We’re featuring a jacket today made from a collection of modern quilting cottons which provided Rae with some scrappy selvage fun- April Fools appropriate! When Rae was a girl learning to sew, her mother, along with every teacher she ever had, suggested that you should trim away the selvages after…
As the festive Spring season approaches in the Mid-Atlantic, it is time for a post about a wedding dress, but Not Just Any Wedding Dress. This week, while Carrie and Rae are both away from their desks and sewing machines, we have asked our friend Edye Sanford to write about…
Enjoy this close look at Rae’s first boucle Carpe Diem dress. It is made with the large piece of Boucle left on the cutting table after the tiny jean jacket mash-up pieces were cut and stitched together for her friend Sally. Sally’s personalized size small Carpe Diem pattern fit just right…
One cropped Jean Jacket from a sale rack finds new lives, becoming two unique jackets that are equally loved. Rae was encouraged by her friend Sally, who you have met in this blog before, to deconstruct parts of the original jacket. Her first recycling idea included a small quilt with some…
Every group that comes to La Cascade for a refreshing week in the French Countryside, have lots of good things to say. We were particularly grateful to our friend Barbie who wrote us this French Testimonial about her experience and agreed to let us print it to inspire you to…
Star Appliques can be very dramatic but they are extra fun when you look at them up close. A detail described in project #2 of Sewing Quilted Patchwork Jackets, these stars really transform the dark of night jelly roll fabric from SewBatik into a sparkling night sky. Quilting stores have…
Over the next couple of weeks, Fit for Art has the pleasure of inviting you to join us for quilted jacket fun with sewing friends that will inspire you as a stitcher and quilted jacket maker. Carrie and Rae are lucky to have friends in the sewing community who have…
Rae has dreamed about finishing this strip of modern surface design and making it into a band on an asymmetrical vest for years. The project began before the final design was even envisioned and then it became an intention mired in the complexities of life. But as we are thinking…
This year I am giving the word goal a rest. Although I have some sewing plans, the word intentions seems to resonate with me in 2025. How about you? Have you thought about some intentions for your sewing projects this year? If you set intentions and life gets in the way,…
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