When my sister came home from Europe for the holidays, she brought back a stack of new sewing magazines, with the (at the time) full set of My Image among them. I am excited by a number of the patterns in the My Image magazines, but decided that the first thing I wanted to sew … More Pattern Review: My Image M1003
Normally it takes me a while to make anything out of my Burda magazines, but for some reason the March issue seemed to grab me and scream – make me right now! Perhaps I wanted to get away from my sewing challenge for a bit, or maybe I just wanted some quick knit projects, or … More Pattern Review: BS 03-2012-108B
While I am waiting for the full preview of the April edition (German Burda has put the garment photos here, but I like to wait until I can see the garments, line drawings, and model photos before I pass judgement), Burda has also announced a special kids issue (you can see previews here and here), … More Burda Easy and Burda Kids – Spring/Summer 2012 Announced
The second item completed in my bout of spontaneous sewing is style 122 from the March Burda. This was one of the patterns I liked right away, and it grew on me the longer I looked at it in the magazine. Even better, the top uses the same pieces as shirt 121, which I also … More Pattern Review: BS 03-2012-122
So far I think things have been going quite well for my year-long sewing challenge – this dress is the third essential item completed. I knew I wanted to make this dress as soon as I saw it in last July’s Burda, but it took me a while to gather the materials and get around … More Pattern Review: BS 07-2011-131
Ok, first of all, let me say I didn’t order all of this on Fat Tuesday. It just all happened to arrive at the same time. And let’s just say that (regardless of religious affiliations or lack thereof) the irony of the timing was not lost on me… First of all, I was ordering a … More Fat Tuesday Fabric Haul
The full preview of the March issue of the BurdaStyle magazine has been posted to the Russian BurdaStyle website. March is the wedding issue and, as I suspected, some of the designs draw heavy inspiration from last year’s royal wedding. The Burda designs aren’t quite as literal with the interpretation as some of the other … More Newsflash – March Burda Style Preview Posted
BurdaStyle Germany has posted the first preview of the March 2012 issue! As expected, March is the transition to spring, with lots of florals and pastel colors. Although it is often hard to tell from the preview, I have to say that, so far, I am liking this issue! I haven’t seen anything I love, … More Newsflash – Burda March Early Preview Posted
My Image is one of the newer European sewing magazines, so I don’t know how many people are die-hard followers as of yet. I was lucky enough to get the first three issues from my sister when she came back from Europe for the holidays. I haven’t made anything as of yet, but I must … More Newsflash – My Image Spring/Summer 2012 Announced
I am excited to be posting the official review for my first completed project of my 2012 sewing challenge! BS-10-2011-127 Readers of my blog know I have been obsessing over these Burda pants since last October, and finally I have a pair of my own: My grey pants! My attempt at posing… Another front view … More Pattern Review: BS 10-2011-127
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