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Category: Inspiration

Posted on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018 by Carrie Emerson — 2 Comments

Retreat with Fit for Art

There are still a few spaces in our Sew! Let’s Get Dressed Retreat the week of August 21-25 and we want to encourage and tempt you to come sew successfully with us.  This is a pick-your-own project retreat with a bonus!  Rae and Carrie will be available all day to… 

Categories: Events, Inspiration, Surface Design
Posted on July 10, 2018June 20, 2024 by Rae Cumbie — 4 Comments

Painting Knits

Painting on knit fabric has been my fun summer experiment, and I am pleased to report my recent results. Over the past few weeks I have graduated from painting samples to painting sections of a Tabula Rasa Knit Tee. It’s quite fun. My knit painting experiment began with my trusty Shiva Paint… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Knits, Surface Design
Posted on July 3, 2018July 5, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 1 Comment

Fancy Frames

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… 

Categories: Fabric, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Shirts
Posted on June 19, 2018August 9, 2020 by Carrie Emerson — 4 Comments

Fun with Saris

Carrie and Meg in Saris

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… 

Categories: Fabric, Inspiration, Jackets, Repurposed, Shirts
Posted on June 12, 2018June 11, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — Leave a comment

Less Knit – More Creativity

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… 

Categories: Design, Fabric, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Knits, Technique
Posted on June 5, 2018June 20, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 6 Comments

TC’s Challenging Fabric

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… 

Categories: Design, Fabric, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Jackets, Knits
Posted on May 29, 2018October 19, 2023 by Rae Cumbie — 3 Comments

Cool Partial Lining

Partial linings are perfect for warm weather sewing when you need a neat finish but don’t want the heat of a full lining. Thank the South Carolina ASG group for this post. They asked about partial linings and so we will oblige. Let’s look at the development, insertion and finishing… 

Categories: Band Variations, Fabric, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Jackets
Posted on May 1, 2018September 4, 2024 by Rae Cumbie — 1 Comment

New Knit Cuff

Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully.  Look at this fun Tabula Rasa Knit tunic made with one of our spring knit bundles.  This week we will have weather in the mid-Atlantic warm enough for Carrie to wear her new top.  It… 

Categories: Design, How to, Inspiration, Knits
Posted on April 17, 2018September 24, 2019 by Rae Cumbie — 2 Comments

Simple to Simply Amazing Quilted TRJs

Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully.  Today we presented “Simple to Simply Amazing Cotton Jackets” at the Danner’s Bernina Shop’s Anniversary Celebration.  Here are the three Tabula Rasa Jackets(TRJ) we featured in the quilted jacket category of the show.  Each jacket… 

Categories: Events, Inspiration, Quilting, Vests
Posted on April 10, 2018April 7, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 4 Comments

Martha’s Denim Vest

Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully.  We are pleased to welcome Martha Myers to our blog this week with an update of a post on her blog Now Sewing.  Martha is an extremely accomplished stitcher and has made several wonderful Tabula Rasa… 

Categories: Design, Fabric, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Technique, Vests

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