If you’re planning to join us as a Sewing Buddy in 2014, be sure to register before the deadline THIS SUNDAY at midnight!  I’ll be closing out registration at that point,…

Starting TODAY!  The Flat Patternmaking e-course is ready to roll!  This class is one of my “live” online classes, which means that unlike some of my other e-courses (including Essential Sewing,…

When I got the (possibly hare-brained) idea to sew my blue velvet cocktail dress, I had pretty minimal experience sewing with velvet.  This was absolutely my first time making something from…

Wayyyy back in 2010, I launched an idea based on a simple survey: pair up willing volunteers with one another to serve as sewing pen pals and keep each other motivated…

After all that work planning and sewing and staying up late and drinking coffee, I got exactly THREE photos of me wearing this magnificent dress.  Here she is, in all her…

Each year for the past four years, my husband’s firm has thrown a Christmas party.  The first year, it was a lovely and classy affair in a floor-to-ceiling glass penthouse venue,…

This year, we finally sent out Christmas cards.  We have never, in point of fact, successfully mailed Christmas cards, ever in our entire married lives (or, for that matter, before we…

So this is the stage in this whole jacket-sewing process where we get to actually see someone wearing the jacket (muslin) and evaluate if it fits as it ought to fit,…

Oh, for the love of all things holy, thank goodness!  It’s finally done.  Well, alright, the muslin is done, at any rate. This is the shell of the jacket–it doesn’t include…

I have this favorite pair of jeans.  They were a little on the expensive side (even though I got them at Nordstrom Rack), and I waited and waited until I was…