Well, since I have been so overwhelmed by skating sewing, I completely missed my one year Blogiversary. I didn’t want to miss my three year Sewiversary though, so I am making sure to not to miss it. Last year I posted about my second year sewiversary and made a few goals for year 3. Let’s see … More Three Year Sewiversary
The much anticipated and somewhat feared transition to the new Russian Burda website is complete. You can check it out here: http://www.burdastyle.ru It seems to have a lot of the features of the newer German and American websites, EXCEPT it also has a page for the journals! It has all of the magazines from this … More Newsflash – New Russian Burda Website is Up!
The German Burda website has put up their own preview of the July Burda. I am not too impressed. If you are looking for shorts or loose button-down shirt you might be in luck. Otherwise… meh. I still hold out hope for the full preview, but I am not holding out too much hope at this … More More Burda July Preview Pictures
If a sewing-obsessed person can’t sew up the patterns they are dreaming of, they apparently buy fabric to make up for it. A lot of fabric. A lot a lot of fabric. Too much fabric. So, um, yeah, I bought a lot of fabric from Fabric Mart… But to be fair, they were having a … More If One Can’t Sew…
Double header today – both the July Early Preview AND the Summer Butterick Patterns have been announced. As for the Burda announcement, well, I wasn’t too excited by the assortment of large, shapeless sacks I saw in many of the photos: Sack dress strikes again! Those shorts are not attractive. But then I saw this … More Newsflash – Burda July Early Preview AND New Butterick Patterns Announced!
The old French Burda website is soon to be no more, and they have moved to a new web address: http://www.burda.fr I can’t say I am a fan of the new website – it looks like they have very limited previews (only a few pictures and the table of contents). I am hoping that this … More New Burda France Website!
This past week has been crazy! Presentation at school/work/real life thing that I do (I don’t know how to describe grad school… it is not a job but it isn’t really school… oh well, whatever) occupied a lot of time. And then preparing for upcoming skating competitions (we are heading into the major part of … More Totally Stoned
Joann’s will be having a pattern sale for Mother’s Day weekend: Friday May 11 – Sunday May 13. A good chance to find those new Vogue patterns for $3.99! And McCall’s will be on sale for $1.99 as well.
So the June issue preview is up – you can check out the line drawings and the garment photos on the German Burda website. And the Russian website, despite the coming changes, has a preview of the model photos up as well! Overall this issue is pretty ok for me – a lot of easy summer … More Newsflash – Full Burda June 2012 Preview Posted
This post will be full of links only, in case people are worried about spoilers… Anyway, in the wake of JordanCon 2012 (which I didn’t get to go to, but Tor has been very kind in forcing Leigh Butler, re-read recapper extraodinaire to summarize here – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), there has been … More Wheel of Time News
Doctor T Designs 