I don’t often post when sewing sales happen – as many stores aren’t accessible to a lot of my readers, and I kind of figure that if you want to know when sales happen you will have signed up for a mailing list somewhere along the way. But Black Friday is a bit different. Keeping … More Sewing Savings – Black Friday Deals
Ok, so I was doing really well about not buying fabric. And then there were a bunch of sales on a lot of fabric I had been thinking about for upcoming projects. At the same time. So I may have increased my stash a little bit… From Fashion Fabrics Club: I am always on the … More Fabric Confessions
Well, I was planning to sew from and NOT add to my stash. Ooops. Silly online sales of awesome tempted me. And amazing fabric finds from LA. What can I say. I am weak. Of course, to be entirely fair, my posting is also a bit backlogged, so this is really several months worth of fabric buying. … More Fabric Gluttony: So Much for Minimizing the Stash
I have been posting photos of my trip to and from Albuquerque. Of course, being me, while I was there I had to visit every fabric store in the city! Oh, and I managed to get in a side trip to Santa Fe as well. All in all I managed to visit four fabric stores, … More Tales from the Road: New Mexico Fabric Finds
Ok, so I know I have seen a lot of crazy fabrics on other sewing blogs and often thought WTF? (The infamous silk South Park fabric comes to mind.) Now, I have seen some ugly fabrics in my time, but never anything so terrible I had to share it with the internet. Well, at least, … More What the Fabric: Celebrating the 4th
Ok, well, maybe not the best thing, but definitely one of the perks is the need to go to the LA fashion district on a fairly regular basis to buy fabric, rhinestones, and supplies. And it seems to have ended up as something of a tradition to end each visit at the Michael Levine Loft – … More The Best Thing About Sewing For Other People…
I have been trying to be good and not buy too much fabric. Then my birthday happened and I got coupons… Which I mostly was able to ignore until about 5 hours before they expired. Which is when some really fantastic looking fabrics showed up in the “new arrivals” or “clearance” sections of my favorite … More Birthday Fabric Stashing
So I haven’t been posting too much lately, but I have been sewing. About 4-12 hours a day, actually. It seems like the more sewing I do, the more I have to do. So much sewing, but not for me. Sigh. I mean, I am grateful for the business, and I am more than willing to do the … More What I Have Been Up To And New Fabric!
I was at a used book store, and while their selection of sewing books was limited (well, nonexistent they had a surprisingly large collection of books on textile production. Being trained as a scientist and a known fabric junkie, I couldn’t pass up a book that contains both molecule line drawings and descriptions of how embossed fabrics are … More Awesome Book Finds
So, while I was initially uninspired by the early preview for the March issue of Burda, I ended up really liking a lot of the styles in this issue, and it seems that having the magazine in my position has inspired a fair bit of fabric acquisition and unexpected project planning. Which I think is … More Drat You March Burda!
Doctor T Designs 