In the whirlwind of skating costumes that have been consuming my life for the past few months I completely missed marking my four year sewiversary at the start of June. At New Year’s I tend to do a list of sewing projects I want to make, but halfway through the year (on my sewiversaries) I … More A Few Months Late… My Four Year Sewiversary
The Russian website has posted the first look at the September issue of Burda magazine. So far I am not too excited. I mean, it looks like there are a few things of interest, but nothing I am really looking forward to making. Hopefully the full preview will change my mind… Jacket: Is ok. Pants: … More Newsflash: September Burda Early Preview Posted
My schedule continues to be super busy, so I didn’t manage to get around to posting all the pattern news until now. It was a busy week, with Russian Burda posting an early preview of the Fall/Winter 2013 Burda Plus magazine, the Fall/Winter 2013 My Image Magazine has gone on sale (with a new website, … More Newsflash: New Vogue, New My Image, and a Burda Plus Early Preview
To all of my regular readers: I am in the final push of my crazy busy insane sewing/skating summer schedule. Posts will continue to be light for a while, but with any luck I should be back sewing things for myself (or at least postable objects) by the end of next month. In the meantime, … More Newsflash: August Burda Full Preview Posted
German Burda has posted a few preview pictures of the upcoming Fall/Winter 2013 envelope pattern collection. So far from the previews…. meh. I am actually more excited about some of the patterns I have seen in the upcoming August Burda than I am by most of these preview images. But, well, this is only a … More Newsflash: Burda Fall/Winter Collection Early Preview Posted
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
August is always a transitional issue as Burda moves from boring simple summer patterns to more detailed fall and winter looks. This year looks to continue that trend. Can’t say I am salivating over any of these designs just yet, but, well, certainly looks better than July. Right now I am questioning some of their fabric … More Newsflash: August Burda Early Preview Posted
You stay off the internet for a week and it gets really easy to miss things, like new pattern announcements. Except, well, I don’t know that missing this announcement would have mattered much. It is even more boring than the McCall’s release I looked at yesterday. In fact, I think it is entirely possible I … More Newsflash: New Simplicity Patterns Announced
First, let me say I am quite sorry I have been very lacking in posts lately. Regionals came up quickly, and blogging was one of the things to get lost from my schedule (along with sleeping and eating as it happens). But I did manage to get twelve costumes (mostly) finished in time for the … More Newsflash: Fall McCall’s Announced
The full preview of the July Burda has been posted to the Russian Burda website. As I feared/predicted/have come to expect, since the June Burda was soooo good, the July issue is, well, just not. I mean, there are some good pieces, but nothing that I would consider truly spectacular. And the crazy…. oh yes … More Newsflash – July Burda Preview Posted
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