Last time I talked about them here was just after making my two muslins. I haven’t been very active here lately because I really wanted to have them finished in one week. Sadly that was not possible, it wasn’t a week but ten days. Not bad, I would say, for …
Bikinis are for Summer
I got an invitation to attend a course about making a bikini. I have to say that for months I was silently ruminating on the idea of making my own bikini. The one from last year (and the year before) is about to break (anytime I see it I picture …
Thurlow Trousers: two muslins
I finally started working on my Thurlow Trowsers. As I was not sure of the size that would fit me best, I traced the pattern on some new tracing paper placing it on my living-room window. My measurements are the ones for size 6, but after checking Tasha’s picture and …
The Great Gatsby Sewing Challenge
After weeks of working and giving up, I can finally make my dress public. A long dress would have been preferable, but I knew that in such case I would never ever wear this dress again. I’m 5’2 and long skirts don’t really flatter my figure, and I suppose I …
Sisters
It’s very peculiar that when we were kids and teenagers, the “handy” one was my sister. I remember her making wonderful bracelets during her study hours, piercing her earlobes and even her belly button during those same study hours and later on cutting fabric and sewing like a madman on …
Lost and found
I’ve been working for a couple of weeks on my dress for the Great Gatsby Sewing Challenge, but I run out of matching thread last Friday. Since I was also working on other projects, I took it as an omen and I decided to take a couple of days of …
T-shirts!
I always wanted to learn to sew with knits. I love dresses and blouses, but as I’ve mention before, what I wear almost everyday are pants and t-shirts. Thirty-something and still dressing like a teenager. I guess some people of our generation never grow up. Because this and because I …
I’ve got fabric
for my Thurlow trowsers. I went to the fabric store on Saturday looking for a cotton twill and I must say that I expected to have more options. There were very few colors: white, black, navy blue, military green and grey. Some were 100% cotton and some were a blend. …
I’m a sewaholic
After much thinking I finally confess: I’m a sewaholic. I’ve been browsing projects made using the Sewaholic patterns for weeks. There were two things that made me take the leap: the fact that these patterns are for pear-shaped bodies like mine and these gorgeous pants! I was feeling a bit …
Tutorial: how to fix jeans pockets
You know how men stuff their jeans pockets. I guess it’s the collateral effect of not carrying a purse like we do, where you never know what you can find at the bottom. In their case what you can normally find at the bottom of their pockets are their keys. …