Every time I approach a group of fabrics destined to be a Tabula Rasa Jacket (TRJ), I consider both the design and the engineering. It is easy to dream up a pieced front and back for a jacket, but it is quite another thing to stitch it together into a…
Category: Quilting
Cozy for Spring – Flower Garden Reversible Quilted 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…
Quilted Jackets for the Fall
The quilted Tabula Rasa Jackets in my closet are real favorites when the weather is cool and crisp. Deep in the “dog days” of a Baltimore summer, I am wishing for fall weather and thinking about designing clothes to freshen up my fall wardrobe. When this urge to sew for…
Sew! Lets Get Dressed – Quilt En Sud
I am back from 17 lovely days in France visiting my daughter Anna. We had some wonderful adventures and I plan to share them in some of this summer’s posts once I have sorted through all the photos and memories. I will start at the end, the final weekend…
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…
Sew! Lets Get Dressed – Edye’s Quilted Jacket
Fall is the perfect time of year for making and wearing cozy quilted jackets. One of our favorites is featured on our updated home page. We call it Bow Wow Chow Mein after the Alexander Henry fabric featured on the front and back of this quilted Tabula Rasa Jacket (TRJ).…