This weekend I was in NYC and while the city always offers shopping for fabrics, trims and notions, food, concerts and theaters, on this trip I also squeezed in some creative time on Sunday Morning. On the bus into the city on Friday, I completed the boro on the right…
Category: Surface Design
Taking Time to Play
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. This weekend I was reminded of the importance of play and discovery in our work. Our local chapter of the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals hosted a guest teacher; Mary Ray is a long-time…
Sew Parisian Postcards
Many days my mind is partly in France as I gear up for our French sewing adventure July 5-12. Our sewing focus at La Cascade will be fabric embellishment, so I have been testing some projects to fill out the week’s activities. One fun project has been the creation of…
Gift yourself a Fit for Art Retreat
We are thrilled to announce two Fit for Art sponsored retreats and a Eureka! Pants Professional Licensing seminar scheduled in 2019! We so enjoy spending one-on-one time with our students in these multi-day sewing retreats and hope you will join us for one of these events. First up in March…
Sew the Gift of Flowers
We love to share a project with you each December. It is a small gift we can give you for a year of encouragement. This year our gift is a new Fit for Art flower, the Denim Dahlia. You can make one into a wonderful pin to perk up a…
Sewing Swingy Expo Treats
Sewing swing tops was on the agenda last weekend in preparation for our final Original Sewing and Quilt Expo of 2018. We are returning to Novi, MI for a weekend of sewing fun and hope you will be joining us. Perhaps you are wondering why I needed new swing tops…
Boro Report
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. During our August retreat, we introduced a technique called “boro”. This is a trendy hand quilting technique we had read about in a terrific article by Mary Ray in Threads magazine, Boro Style, issue number 195…
Pins, Paints, Inspirations
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. What drives your design process? I am often inspired by a hole in my wardrobe. Recently one emerged: a solid tee or tunic to wear with a new necklace. I have two black Tabula Rasa…
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…
Painting Knits
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. 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…