Light weight unlined pants are perfect for hot summer weather in Baltimore. This “cool” pair is made from a cotton sateen border print I bought on clearance at a JoAnn’s a few summers ago. They are easy to wear with flip flops and a white t-shirt but their design was…
Author: Rae Cumbie
Outfits by Lugene
This June we are delighted to have several teaching opportunities. We sure do love to teach classes that revolve around our patterns! This weekend I presented a trunk show at Sew Right Sewing Machines in Queens, New York followed by teaching a two-day Tabula Rasa Jacket Workshop. It was great…
Sew! Lets Get Dressed – Quilt En Sud
I am back from 17 lovely days in France visiting my daughter Anna. We had some wonderful adventures and I plan to share them in some of this summer’s posts once I have sorted through all the photos and memories. I will start at the end, the final weekend…
Sew! Let’s Get Dressed – Our Blog-O-Sphere Birthday
Sew! Let’s Get Dressed is celebrating its 1st birthday this week. Carrie and I are delighted to have those first 52 posts behind us and are looking forward to many more weeks of sharing our sewing adventures with you. To be honest, we were not sure what we were doing…
Sew! Let’s Get Dressed – Dreaming of New Shirts
Sewing shirts has become one of my favorite things. I got addicted last spring using my Tabula Rasa Jacket pattern modified with the Shirt Variations. The shirts are pretty easy to sew and very easy to wear. As the weather in Baltimore gets warmer, I just throw one on with…
Sew! Let’s Get Dressed – Starting On Your Pants Journey
Journeying into new territory, like sewing pants that fit, starts with a carefully crafted mock up and a brave spirit. The Eureka! Pants that Fit pattern is your guide for a successful journey. If you choose to have a pants sizing in our pink fitting room at an Expo, you…
Button Quandaries
Choosing the perfect buttons for your jacket can be a challenge when you are open to a variety of possibilities. I do love solving button quandaries though, so in this photo-filled post, we are going to choose buttons for a very colorful Tabula Rasa Jacket (TRJ) that I am making for…
Sewing Basic Jackets
Sewing basic jackets might seem boring after last week’s blog post about a colorful, pieced and quilted vest, but it is a good way to get started with a new pattern and to test the fit of your Tabula Rasa Jacket pattern. We met lots of new friends at our…
Sew! Let’s Get Dressed – Gathering Fabric for a Quilted Vest
This quilted vest is the perfect antidote to our cool spring weather, which is why it’s featured in our early spring photo montage on the home page. It is both cozy and cheerful thanks to a mix of bold prints and small geometrics used to piece the vest sections. It…
Sew! Let’s Get Dressed- Inserting Elastic Into Faced Waist Pants
A warm Fit for Art welcome to our friend and Eureka! Pants collaborator, Sarah Veblen who has prepared the directions for you to add elastic into pants finished at the waist with a facing. Special thanks too to Monica Walker who provided the photographs for this post. She worked on…