Month: February 2013

Woo hoo! My dress has made it into the final for the Burdastyle Sewing Vintage Modern Contest.I didn’t intend for this dress to be the “one” for my entry because I didn’t read the fine print where it said you can only enter one dress. I had plans on making another amazing out fit to […]

This is my second project out of the BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern book. I really loved the look of the bell sleeves on this top, very “hippy, bohemian” inspired. I had a gorgeous black Japanese 100% Cotton seersucker with self print and eyelet detail in my stash which I had picked up from Tessuti a while ago and thought this would […]

Sewing enthusiasts please check out this music video made with embroidery and sewing implements. Is this  Directed, filmed, and produced by Christophe Thockler the clip uses 10,000 photographs of needles, thread, cloth and embroidery, mixed with clever lighting techniques to produce a fun video for Favorite Place, the latest track by US pop rock band […]

If you are like me and a wee bit on the short side, you will most likely need to hem most of your jeans. Even though I am a sewer, I dread doing it for some reason. Perhaps it’s the mundanenus of it. But hemming jeans to fit is a cinch and you can save […]