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Posted on November 13, 2018August 9, 2020 by Rae Cumbie — Leave a comment

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… 

Categories: Design, Events, Fabric, Inspiration, Jackets, Surface Design, Swing Variations
Posted on November 6, 2018September 22, 2021 by Carrie Emerson — 4 Comments

Boro Report

Vest Back in progress

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… 

Categories: How to, Inspiration, Surface Design, Vests
Posted on October 30, 2018June 20, 2024 by Rae Cumbie — 2 Comments

Pins, Paints, Inspirations

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 Knit Tees, but both are looking too tired to accompany a shiny new necklace. So… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Knits, Surface Design, Technique
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 February 6, 2018February 5, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 4 Comments

Kathy’s Award Winning TRJ

This week we invited our friend Kathy Levy, a retired dressmaker and alterations expert from upstate NY, to write about a wonderful Tabula Rasa Jacket she created for one of the Threads Magazine Challenges.  Her ensemble was given the Most Innovative Use of Lace Award and featured in a 2013… 

Categories: Design, Fabric, Helpful Hints, Jackets, Surface Design
Posted on November 8, 2016August 9, 2020 by Rae Cumbie — 2 Comments

Longarm Couched Jacket

Today we welome Joy, a friend from the Easton MD area who has created a great Tabula Rasa Jacket, her first actually with embellishments using a long are quilting machine.  We asked her to write about it so we could share it with our Sew! Lets Get Dressed readers.  So… 

Categories: Fabric, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Jackets, Quilting, Surface Design, Technique
Posted on July 21, 2015July 23, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 4 Comments

White Shirt – With A Twist, Part 2

Last week’s post outlined the creative process I used to plan my new white shirt and prepare to stencil the shirt using Paint Sticks. Here is the rest of the story and the finished Tabula Rasa Jacket with the Shirt Variations! To get started, I cleaned off my dining room table,… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Shirts, Surface Design
Posted on July 14, 2015July 23, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 1 Comment

A White Shirt – With A Twist

Last winter, when I was making note of the 2015 spring and summer fashion trends, the omnipresence of the white shirt on the pages of the fashion magazine caught my eye.  While I am not a slave to fashion, I realized that a new white shirt would be an excellent… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, Inspiration, Shirts, Surface Design, Technique
Posted on September 9, 2014July 23, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — Leave a comment

Sew Let’s Get Dressed – Designing Artful Jackets

It is time to settle on the design for my Tabula Rasa Jacket embellished with painted squares.  Last week I shared with you about the painting process and this week we will consider some design options.  The squares have been heat set and fused to the light fusible web so… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, Jackets, Surface Design

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