Carrie experimented with echoing the angles of the asymmetrical front band style to the entire Tabula Rasa Jacket in her Rose Trellis Jacket. Here’s a look at sleeve and back details which echo the angled asymmetrical front band and hem. (The pattern modifications for the asymmetrical jacket front are covered…
This month’s blast from the past revisits our tutorial on drafting your own pattern for an Asymmetrical Band Front with your personalized Tabula Rasa Jacket pattern. We have been playing around with an asymmetrical band front for the Tabula Rasa Jacket for many years, so this post shows you the…
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…
In early spring we wrote about an asymmetrical front opening—another new design that uses a personalized Tabula Rasa Jacket pattern. If you have not tried this design, now is a good time to pull out your pattern and try these pattern adjustments by following the step-by-step directions in the blog. You…
We have been playing around with an asymmetrical band front for the Tabula Rasa Jacket for many years. It is now time to show you the adjustments needed to change your Tabula Rasa Jacket pattern into this less predictable style. You have recently seen a garment made in this style…
To assauge our disappointment at missed travel this summer, we are taking you on some of our trips from years past. For both Rae and Carrie, travel usually involves fabric shopping and later, with any luck, sewing! Come along this week as Carrie reflects on the textiles she savored on…
Sewing Fit for Art Patterns into outfits for every time of the day is our trunk show theme this year. Since many of you cannot attend an Original Sewing and Quilt Expo, we plan to bring you an occasional highlight. Today we will see a bedtime ensemble. I stitched up…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. Sometimes fabric just calls out a name, and so it was last February when I visited Domesticity in Baltimore’s Lauraville Neighborhood. It is a fun new stitch lounge and fabric shop where I always find…
Rae and I have been eyeing a lovely bolt of Japanese cotton lawn that we bought earlier this year. We’ve also talked for some time about creating Fit for Art sleep wear, and suddenly it clicked into place – the lawn is perfect for pajamas and robes! I made a…
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