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Knit Sewing Sidebar

After months of focusing on sewing quilted jackets, we are shifting our attention to some fun seasonal sewing with knit fabrics. While Rae was stitching a new tee to wear under her quilted jacket, she thought there should be a knit sewing sidebar in the book about making great tops to… 

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Scrappy Selvage Fun – April Fools!

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… 

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One Jean Jacket’s New Lives

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…