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One Great Wardrobe – Episode 2

Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully.  Welcome to another installment in our series “Three Core Patterns – One Great Wardrobe.”  We hope to inspire you to create your dream wardrobe with the 3 core patterns from Fit for Art, a little… 

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Fan-Tabulous! Quilted Jacket

Fan-tabulous!

We have a handful of quilted jacket samples that draw oohs and ahhs at every show, folks wishing to buy or make.  So, Fit for Art is creating a series of directions for “Specialty Quilted Jackets” that provide step-by-step instructions to replicate some of those admired jackets.  Currently we have… 

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Imagining a “Spectacle” Jacket

Its a Spectacle

A colorful bundle of Echino fat quarters came to me as a gift from my daughter several years ago, and I immediately wanted to make them into a Tabula Rasa Jacket (TRJ).  But, fat quarters (18” by 22 1/2 “) are challenging when designing garments, especially if you want to…