customizing the leggings: racing stripe leggings
It’s surprisingly easy to add a racing stripe to the leggings pattern. The process is really just color blocking, so if you were following along with color blocking 101 or our color blocked raglan...
View Articlebias binding tutorial
Have you ever sewn bias binding onto something using the “traditional” method where you stitch in the ditch to finish it, and then you turn it over afterward and discover that your stitching didn’t...
View Articlespring pattern round-up
Every season we send out a few advance copies of our patterns to some of our friends because we’re so excited to see which fabrics they’ll select and how they’ll express their own style with the new...
View Articlenarrow hem with ban-rol
When we were sewing silk and rayon samples of the Cappuccino Dress + Tunic for the photo shoot I wanted to find a method of hemming that would be easy and fast. I often hand-sew silk hems because I...
View Articlecatching up
With everything that’s been going on around here lately, I’ve developed a backlog of items I want to tell you about. So let’s do a catch-up post! First of all, I’ve been meaning to mention that...
View Articlejune is made for kids month!
It’s been so much fun to play along with Me Made May! I’m really enjoying this idea of wearing and styling the clothes I’ve made for myself, and since I switched our closets to spring and summer...
View Articlethe summer edit: liesl’s picks
Just for the fun of it, I thought I might put together a summer wardrobe edit to show you what I might choose if I was sewing a new summer wardrobe for S. I chose eight styles I’d sew and the fabrics I...
View Articlewardrobe edit: rae’s picks
Today we welcome Rae from Made by Rae. Her new Lotus Pond fabric collection recently came out with Cloud 9 Fabrics. It is made up of 12 prints in quilting cotton, all certified organic! The colors are...
View Articlethe summer edit: rachel’s picks
You have already seen Liesl’s summer edit, as well as Rae’s (using her Lotus Pond fabric collection), now today I am sharing mine. Kids Clothes Week is just around the corner, July 21-27 to be exact,...
View Article15 tips for fitting a muslin
Since many of you are starting to sew more for yourselves, I know you’re also making more muslins so you can adjust the fit of each pattern for your own body. Here are my top 15 tips to help you along!...
View Articlewardrobe edit: holiday season
Just for the fun of it, I’ve put together a fantasy wardrobe edit for the holiday season. This is what I would sew for my daughter if I was planning a new holiday wardrobe for her. It contains mostly...
View Article2014 flickr mosaics
Last week in Liesl’s 2014 review post, it was mentioned that we’d have a 2014 mosaic post very soon. Well, here it is. And I must start out by saying what a productive year you had in 2014! I wanted to...
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