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Category: Helpful Hints

Posted on June 30, 2015June 9, 2020 by Rae Cumbie — 4 Comments

Pants with Summer Pockets

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… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, How to, Pants, Pockets, Technique
Posted on June 16, 2015September 9, 2024 by Rae Cumbie — 3 Comments

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… 

Categories: Design, Events, Helpful Hints, How to, Jackets, Pants
Posted on June 2, 2015June 10, 2020 by Carrie Emerson — Leave a comment

Local Fabric Sources

When working a booth at a sewing show or expo, we are frequently asked where we get our beautiful fabrics.   This is typically followed by a lament that “there are no good fabric stores where I live.”  Rae and I are indeed lucky to have an excellent fabric store near… 

Categories: Band Variations, Design, Helpful Hints, Inspiration, Jackets, Technique
Posted on May 12, 2015May 12, 2015 by Rae Cumbie — 7 Comments

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… 

Categories: Events, Helpful Hints, Inspiration
Posted on May 5, 2015July 31, 2015 by Rae Cumbie — 2 Comments

Sew! Let’s Get Dressed – Dreaming of New Shirts

Blue Rayon Shirt with spread collar and swing side

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… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, Inspiration, Jackets, Shirts
Posted on April 28, 2015March 13, 2025 by Rae Cumbie — 5 Comments

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… 

Categories: Fitting, Helpful Hints, Pants
Posted on April 21, 2015October 19, 2023 by Rae Cumbie — 6 Comments

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… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, Inspiration, Jackets
Posted on April 14, 2015October 18, 2023 by Rae Cumbie — 2 Comments

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… 

Categories: Events, Helpful Hints, How to, Jackets
Posted on April 7, 2015September 23, 2019 by Rae Cumbie — 1 Comment

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… 

Categories: Helpful Hints, Inspiration, Quilting, Vests
Posted on March 31, 2015April 23, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 4 Comments

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… 

Categories: Helpful Hints, Pants, Technique

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