With our final 2018 Sewing Expo behind us, Carrie and I were taking stock of the year as we drove home on Sunday. It is Thanksgiving week in the USA so we want to heap our thanks on everyone who has helped us rise to new heights in 2018. Each…
With our final 2018 Sewing Expo behind us, Carrie and I were taking stock of the year as we drove home on Sunday. It is Thanksgiving week in the USA so we want to heap our thanks on everyone who has helped us rise to new heights in 2018. Each…
Sewing swing tops was on the agenda last weekend in preparation for our final Original Sewing and Quilt Expo of 2018. We are returning to Novi, MI for a weekend of sewing fun and hope you will be joining us. Perhaps you are wondering why I needed new swing tops…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. Sewists and Weavers are both in love with wonderful fabrics and fibers. This became clear to me in 2004 when I first taught at the Creative Strands Conference. I was delighted to share my philosophy…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. Sewing a quilted jacket made with the Tabula Rasa Jacket (TRJ) pattern is a great project as the cooler weather rolls in. I certainly want to sew clothes that make me feel warm and cozy…
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…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. Several of our readers expressed interest in the travel fabric featured in my spring blog post Fit for Travel. I promised a report on performance, so I am here to let you know that it…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. What do you do when you want to feature a busy button on a busy fabric? Make a solid button frame, of course. Our Shirt Variations pattern for the Tabula Rasa Jacket includes a sidebar…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. As many of you may have gathered, I recently traveled to India. The primary motivation for this trip was to attend graduation at a very special school south of Bangalore at which my daughter has…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. Sewing up knit tops with the scraps from our bundles is becoming one of my specialties. I am not complaining because I have a drawer bursting at the seams with fun Tabula Rasa Knit tops…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. Today we welcome TC Ferrito to our column. If you are in ASG you have probably met her, she is a dynamo of energy for all things sewing. We are so honored that she is…