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…
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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.…
Trimmer Fitting Tabula Rasa Jacket
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pants with a Shaped Waistband
I love the clean lines of the back zipper Eureka! Pants with a faced waist, but I have struggled to get them to stay put on me, especially since I like to wear them a little below my waist. Finally I’ve settled on a waistband that satisfies my style and fitting…
Fit for Art Pajamas and Robe
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…
Geisha Jacket Part 4 – Double Band Finish
Today is the final post about the Geisha Tabula Rasa Jacket (TRJ) with a close up look at the button front double band. A careful look at the background sketches in the Labor Day post shows an asymmetrical front hemline. The more prominent and recent sketches include a shaped band…
Tabula Rasa Vests
I love to wear vests! I like them because they are comfortable and easy to move in, provide warmth, and add a lot of color, design, and pizzazz to an outfit. Of course the Tabula Rasa Jacket pattern makes a terrific vest. You may have seen several of my Tabula Rasa…