In this season of thanksgiving, Rae and I want to express our thankfulness to you, our community of supporters. We are so grateful for your enthusiasm and sharing of Fit for Art patterns with fellow sewists. You inspire us to continue creating new patterns and variations and to pursue our…
Category: Technique
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…
Lapped Zippers in Pants
Our pants post this month provides step-by-step instructions and photos of a lapped zipper application for your Eureka! Pants that Fit. In our Eureka! Pants Licensing Seminar last month, I demonstrated this lapped zipper technique since some of the students were not confident inserting a lapped zipper. This is my favorite…
Orange Linen with Liberty Trim
It’s a stash busting week again as we look at my orange linen unlined duster made with the Rain or Shine Variations (RSV) for the Tabula Rasa Jacket (TRJ). Like last week’s black and white top, this warm orange colored topper is perfect for the change of seasons here in…
Versatile Black & White
Sewing black and white tops is so practical. They can be paired with either black, white, or bright colored pants moving from season to season in style. (If you don’t wear black and white, imagine that I am writing about your favorite light and dark neutral colors.) Earlier this summer…
Hems for Unlined Tabula Rasa Jackets
The seasons are changing, so all of a sudden my unlined summer Tabula Rasa Jackets (TRJ) are coming out of the closet. Just like summer pants fabrics, the fabrics I choose to sew for summer tops are light weight and washable. So, their engineering needs to be washing machine safe too. Today…
TR Camp Shirts for Summer
A few weeks ago we had a brief spurt of warm weather which got me to thinking about my summer tops. I really like to wear a “camp shirt” in warm weather, which I think of as having short sleeves and collar on a relaxed fitting shirt that falls open…
Stitch and Flip Jacket Engineering
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…
Japanese Double Faced Jacket – Part Two
Welcome back to our visit with the Double the Orient Tabula Rasa Jacket. Last week the post looked closely at the design, basic construction and cuffs of this reversible TRJ. In this post we will look at the finishes including the hem, the kimono band and the button closures. Preparing…
Tape a Pants Waist
In our Eureka! Pants that Fit and Sporty Details patterns, we mention taping the waist for a stable finish at the top of the pants. If you don’t know what that is, read on! Pants with curved waist finishes, such as a facing or a shaped waistband, can stretch out of shape easily.…