Sewing tips and tricks to add to your toolkit.
Seattle Cosplay and J. Hart Designs are back again with two new Cosplay by McCalls patterns. J. Hart Designs’ Edwardian Chapeau (M2119) is a basic hat pattern and contains all Continue Reading →
Misheard words make mud pies of meaning. I think we all experience that. We all know that feeling of having been misusing a word for ages, and then finding out what the Continue Reading →
Yet another installation of my favorite misused/misheard words, or in the vernacular, “get off my lawn!” I’d worry that my linguist friends would be correct, and these two misheard and misused Continue Reading →
Yep. Operator error is the top reason for sewing machine “break down.” Time and time again, the only problem with a machine I am working on is something that could Continue Reading →
A little while back at an event, some designers, costumers and I were discussing sewing machines—specifically which were the best ones. As a professional sewing machine tech, I was running Continue Reading →
A hallmark of a good headpiece is the exclamation “is that really all it is?” quietly slipping from your lips when you finally get a good, close-up look at it. Continue Reading →
I have often knitted with fabric. You can knit with anything that you can make vaguely string-like. A favorite of mine are my silk “sweaters” made from my hand-dyed silk habotai. Continue Reading →
Don’t ever buy a bathrobe again. You can make a better better and cheaper robe in just an hour or so. Yes, the ubiquitous bathrobe is a universal garment we all know Continue Reading →
Time again to prove that you don’t need a pattern. This is a really easy, and very versatile project: The gathered, or dirndl, skirt. You can do this in a Continue Reading →
Don’t settle. You don’t have to. It’s easy not to settle when you have the power to stitch it up yourself. Get exactly what you want, in the fabric Continue Reading →