wash, wear, be excellent
Meanwhile, on eBay, this caught my eye this image has been edited from the original listing, but it's available as the boldface listing states. And it is not an official Titanic pattern, but you get the idea. Well, it IS the dress she goes swimming in. Has anyone seen a drenched version with her, a... Continue Reading →
What can I say about a parade of cuties? Go read about them! A delicious parade of features. http://dragonpoodle.blogspot.com/2019/10/mini-kennies-on-parade.html http://mysewingmachineobsession.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenmore%20158.1040 If you ever wanted to see the interior of a sewing machine and think "I could deal with that", this is the machine for you. It's very straightforward and will accept amateur hour tinkering. It's... Continue Reading →
Finally have a new thread that works with the blue hems For a human that wasn't going to get any more sewing gigs, I have a stack right now. The only one that doesn't pay is the bag. So here's what I'm doing and then I gotta go back to it. First due are the... Continue Reading →
generic tape measure stock photo - it's late, I'm tired. I'll go take one and put it in later. This little infomercial from Goldman Sachs through Bloomfield News for no actual product showed up in my twitter feed. I think I stripped the links here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ayYkJVioZQ The idea is that you take photos of yourself... Continue Reading →
You know me. every month is Alteration Month. This dress belongs to my niece, and while I might take issue with it's content and presentation, she loves it and needs it to be bigger. And there's virtually nowhere on it to harvest sufficient fabric to widen the bodice 9". ....... Well, it's a... Continue Reading →
I'm putting these illustrations at the front so I will see them right away. Because this is also my sewing information storage bin. And this is the summary of our Bias time. Click on 'em to enbiggen. Vogue Pattern Magazine's last issue is the source for the image on the lower left, with notations This... Continue Reading →
Brief detour from bias stuff: this show ends Sept 2nd. Yes, i could have seen it sooner. "A Queen Within" https://www.mopop.org/exhibitions-plus-events/exhibitions/a-queen-within-adorned-archetypes/ from the website: "Explore how contemporary fashion designers engage with feminine archetypes through more than 100 pieces of fashion, contemporary photography, and video. Using the six personality types of a queen — Sage, Enchantress,... Continue Reading →
If we're going to talk about bias cuts and layout, we've got to talk about Charles Kleibacker. Obligatory wiki page link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kleibacker This is a great three part series on YouTube with Kleibackerk, from 1979. part one https://youtu.be/v-M1ygDVWNE part two https://youtu.be/1ovNISEy0c0 and part three which is laying out a pair of bias pants https://youtu.be/8BGP68kq_Q0 from... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/mkA4cX9vdx4 I am pretty sure this was the OH YASS, fist-pump moment. I give Seamwork/Collette Patterns endless crap, but this is a great video. It's clear (they used two very different fabrics to illustrate) and concise. You do this in two passes, one for each armhole. Bring your own popcorn. And then I kept watching... Continue Reading →
