Spend July 5-12, 2019 with Rae Cumbie* and Fit for Art Patterns at La Cascade Artists Retreat in Durfort, an enchanting medieval artisan village in the Languedoc region of France to explore the countryside and a variety of fabric embellishing and surface design techniques. The mornings will be spent in the cozy third floor artist…
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. This fall our stage show at the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo will be Three Core Patterns, One Great Wardrobe. It will reveal the magic that happens to your wardrobe when you begin sewing with Fit for…
It will be just like summer camp! Spend a day at Capital Quilts with Rae Cumbie, leader of our Sew! Let’s Get Dressed Club as she introduces you to her favorite surface design techniques for clothing. Try out Sheva Paintsticks and raw edge collage. See examples of how beads and buttons bring clothing to life. …
Welcome to Sew! Let’s Get Dressed, a weekly blog that encourages you to sew successfully. What inspires me as a garment maker, business owner, artist, writer, human being? Most of the year it is my next event or deadline, perhaps a fashion trend or a new teaching opportunity. There is…
The Tabula Rasa Knit Tee and Tunic (TRK) pattern includes options for U-neck construction and V-neck construction. The V-neckline scares lots of folks because it requires you to clip into the seam allowance to begin the process. Here are some step-by-step tips on how to smoothly construct the V neckline. …
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…
Rae embellished this unique Tabula Rasa blouse with stencils and Artist’s Paintstiks. This Tabula Rasa Jacket variation is made from …
Join Rae Cumbie and Carrie Emerson of Fit for Art Patterns for a summer’s end sewing retreat. Rae and Carrie will be available all day long to provide individualized help on your sewing projects. This may include assistance with: • Fitting a Fit for Art pattern beginning from our fit samples or from the mock-up or…
It is great fun to find new fabrics and shapes to update a dated garment. So, when Katy, who I regularly design and sew for, brought me the dress she wore to her daughter’s wedding and asked for a redesign, I was all in. She had a wedding to attend…
Two special fabrics purchased at Mekong River Textiles are combined into a comfortable and striking shirt for fall and winter. …
