So sorry that the conclusion to this tutorial has taken so long! I have had the post written since forever ago, but I never found time to take and upload photos. In case you need a refresher you can find the earlier parts of this skating dress tutorial here: Part I: General Sewing Stuff Part … More Skating Dress Tutorial Part VI: Attaching the Skirt
Simplicity has just posted their latest collection on their website. If you are looking for costumes or pajamas you are in luck! So many pajamas you guys – so so many… If you are looking for patterns for fabulous fall clothes, well, might be you have to keep looking. As far as regular clothes go… … More Newsflash: Simplicity Autumn 2013 Collection Announced
The Russian Burda website has just posted the full preview of the Fall/Winter Burda Plus Magazine. My overall impression: not terrible, but not exciting. I don’t know, maybe I am just on pattern overload, but it seems like there aren’t a whole lot of the fall fashions I am falling in love with this year. … More Newsflash: Fall/Winter Burda Plus Full Preview Posted
At the beginning of the year I thought about all the things I needed in my wardrobe, I plotted, I planned, I gave myself a year-long sewing challenge. I did something similar last year, and I really enjoyed thinking about making clothes that work in a wardrobe, for multiple occasions, or fill a need in … More Throwing in the Challenge Towel: Sewing for ME!
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
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