This Tabula Rasa Shirt is made with beautiful cotton ikats purchased from Mekong River Textiles, a small importer of fabrics…
Diamond Button Frame Shirt
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Lily Pad Vest
This simple vest was created from just two weighty cottons from Mekong River Textiles plus a little bit of quilters…
Sashed Silk Jacket
This basic Tabula Rasa Jacket features some special scraps pieced together using a sashing technique that connects pieces with strips…
Funnel Neck Ikat Vest
Carrie is loving her new Tabula Rasa Vest. The beautiful Ikat and coordinating solid cottons were purchased from one of…
One Great Wardrobe – Episode 3
Welcome to another installment of our series “Three Core Patterns – One Great Wardrobe”. Today’s wardrobe is based on one of my favorite pairs of pants in a dusty rose microfiber with lots of swinging drape. You will soon be able to make a similar pair with your Eureka! Pants…
Sew Thankful for You
With our final 2018 Sewing Expo behind us, Carrie and I were taking stock of the year as we drove home on Sunday. It is Thanksgiving week in the USA so we want to heap our thanks on everyone who has helped us rise to new heights in 2018. Each…
One Great Wardrobe—Episode 1
When we would present at the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo, our stage show was called Four Core Patterns, One Great Wardrobe. In it, we reveal the magic that happens to your wardrobe when you begin sewing with Fit for Art’s four core patterns: the Tabula Rasa Jacket (TRJ), Eureka! Pants that Fit, the Tabula…
Swing Tops: Similar yet Different
It is a fun exercise to examine two garments made from the same fabric. In this case the tops are similar Tabula Rasa Jackets (TRJ). I made one for Laura Murray, wearable artist extraordinaire, and one for myself. Look closely at the next two photos and see if you can…
Redesigning for a Special Occasion
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…
Samples For Threads
When designing and constructing jackets that will illustrate a magazine article, there is a certain level of anxiety that accompanies the project. Most of my days in the studio are spent designing and testing new patterns or sewing up new clothes to hang in the booth and write about on…
