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Category: Helpful Hints

Posted on March 15, 2016June 15, 2022 by Rae Cumbie — 1 Comment

Cozy for Spring – Flower Garden Reversible Quilted Jacket

Front of reversible Flower Garden Jacket.

Quilted Tabula Rasa Jackets are great fun to make and wear. We have made it even easier with some new direction booklets that walk you through the steps to recreate two of our favorite quilted jackets. I am thinking about this now because Spring in the mid-Atlantic is the perfect… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, How to, Quilting
Posted on March 1, 2016March 1, 2016 by Carrie Emerson — 1 Comment

Challenge to Self!

“A little challenge goes a long way when you want to take your sewing up a notch.”  This is the opening sentence of the description for a new class I am teaching at the Original Sewing & Quilt Expos (OSQE) this spring.  It also captures my philosophy of sewing.  I… 

Categories: Design, Events, Helpful Hints, Inspiration
Posted on February 23, 2016February 22, 2016 by Rae Cumbie — 2 Comments

Tape a Pants Waist

In our Eureka! Pants that Fit and Sporty Details patterns, we mention taping the waist for a stable finish at the top of the pants.  If you don’t know what that is, read on! Pants with curved waist finishes, such as a facing or a shaped waistband, can stretch out of shape easily.… 

Categories: Helpful Hints, How to, Pants, Technique
Posted on February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 by Rae Cumbie — 3 Comments

Winter Shirts

Sewing warm and cozy shirts was one of my 2016 goals and I am happy to report I have 3 finished. There is something so simple about a shirt that fits, you just put it on and head off for your day. I have watched my husband do this for… 

Categories: Helpful Hints, Inspiration, Shirts
Posted on February 9, 2016February 9, 2016 by Rae Cumbie — Leave a comment

Exhibit Hopping

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting 3 art museums in 3 days.  I had finished writing and illustrating our new direction book and was delighted to take a little break.   On Sunday I went with friends to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA).  For the umpteenth time,… 

Category: Helpful Hints
Posted on February 2, 2016February 3, 2016 by Carrie Emerson — 2 Comments

Trimmer Fitting Tabula Rasa Jacket

Brown Plaid wool

Occasionally a prospective customer comments that she doesn’t like the “boxy” style of the Tabula Rasa Jacket.  The TRJ pattern was deliberately designed with fairly straight seams to make the pattern an easy “blank slate” for wearable art, and to keep construction simple.  If you would prefer a curvier fit… 

Categories: Helpful Hints, How to, Jackets
Posted on January 26, 2016June 4, 2023 by Rae Cumbie — 1 Comment

The Details of Sporty Details

Sewing jean-style pants that look like they came from the store demands the hardware that gives your sewn jeans an authentic look.  While I am not a purist, certain detailing is important. So, here is my supply list for sewing Eureka! Pants that Fit with Sporty Details.  You can purchase… 

Categories: Helpful Hints, How to, Pant Details, Pants, Sporty Details
Posted on January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 by Carrie Emerson — 5 Comments

Boiled Wool Sweater Jacket

  While in Minneapolis last fall for the ASDP conference, I purchased a lovely piece of peacock blue boiled wool from a local fabric store, Treadle Yard Goods.  I’m guessing it is a boiled wool jersey because it is softer and drapier than the boiled wool that I associate with… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, Inspiration, Jackets, Technique
Posted on January 12, 2016January 15, 2016 by Rae Cumbie — 5 Comments

Sweater Quandry – Redesign or Recycle

With good intentions, I often visit my closets and drawers each January for a little cleaning out.  some things are easy to part with because they are worn or ill-fitting.  Other items, that should be disposed of, prove more challenging.  I seem to have an irrational attachment to them.  One… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Repurposed, Technique
Posted on January 5, 2016January 5, 2016 by Rae Cumbie — Leave a comment

Common Fitting Adjustment Videos

As our name implies, we are all about Fit and helping everyone get a comfortable fit for their body.  We started Fit for Art Patterns with the goal of offering a basic, well fitting, easily adjustable jacket pattern for home sewers, wearable artists, teachers and sewing professionals.   Our first… 

Categories: Helpful Hints, How to, Jackets

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