If you grew up with siblings, you may have doubted it when your parents said, “We love you all equally.” You were all different – how could you be equally loved? Well, McCall’s 7204 cardigan has helped me understand. McCall’s M7204 7204 is one of my favorite types of patterns – a wardrobe pattern! In […]
Hello there! Ready to hear how week three of teaching sewing went? (Apologies for back-to-back teaching posts; I’m trying to get these up on Tuesdays, but sharing that amazing fabric last week took precedence. ;) ) So, sewing class. Week two was a mess and I had to send a bunch of followup emails to […]
Last week Thursday was week two of class, and our focus was pattern work. The plan was for everyone to trace off and alter their pattern pieces, and then we’d talk fabric choices and what to bring to the next class. I’d made a fabric yardage conversion chart, and wanted to quickly explain how to […]
To say that I’ve bought a lot of fabric in my day would be quite the understatement. Given my numerous encounters with beautiful fabrics, I don’t impress easy. But. I first set eyes on this gorgeous creature on Sunday. It was in the back of the fabric store, in the corner, mixed in with its […]
Class has begun! I’m so excited to say that I taught my first in-person group class last week, and think it went well. And I’ve decided to share here, what it’s like to be teaching, and things that come up during the course of class. First things first. It’s not very PC to say, but […]
Happy new year! I spent 2018 mostly hunkered well below the radar, due to events so personal I didn’t want to blog about them. But happily, with the new year comes the ability to start talking about some things – and therefore, the ability to blog more regularly. First things first – I’m teaching sewing […]
Happy Saturday, everyone! Let’s talk color, shall we? If you know me in person or you’re a regular visitor to the blog, you know that I LOVE purple. Like, insanely so. It’s been my favorite color since I was a wee girl of single digit age! But lately, I’ve been trying to branch out and […]