My New Rule (rs)

Thank you all for your comments about my T hreads Magazine jacket.  Each of you inspire me, and sometimes I even attempt to make something ...

The White Jacket in Threads

--the March issue: is mine!!!  This is the jacket with bias strip insertion panels. And whose beautiful jacket is on the page right beside m...

Blog Award Time!

L ori kindly put me in the mass of Lovely Blog/Very Inspiring Blog awardees.  Awardees? Thank you, Lori.  You are all familiar with her and ...

A Couple of Things

Not much sewing has been coming from my hands.  Testing, muslins, etc. but nothing that I've felt like blogging about.  I have kept up w...

Midtown Trench Beginning

Fall is in the air, and I find myself in need of a lightweight coat.  I've decided on Indygo Junction's Midtown Trench. I first paid...

Summer Hats and Sure Fit

Long time between blog posts.  I haven't sewn much in the last few weeks.  But, with the season about to change, I expect a resurgence o...

My First SureFitDesigns Garment

But, not my last!  I've been following the discussion about SureFitDesigns on Stitcher's Guild for some time.  A while ago, I took ...

Butterick met Kenneth King and produced---

This: T hreads #158 had a tutorial by Kenneth King, using what he calls "bias strip insertion".   Bias strips are cut and folded, ...

Sure Fit Designs

I've been looking and thinking about  http://www.surefitdesigns.com/  for quite some time.   C arolyn started using this system a year o...

Oh, That Jacket!

The iconic Chanel jacket-never goes out of style.  Here she is again in Claire Shaeffer for Vogue 8804.   Three piece sleeve (even though th...

Sweater Bag Progress

I've had a great time working on this bag.  The embellishments are sewn on and I'm adding a few beads.  Gotta have a little bling!  ...

Handbags are Art

I recently took a workshop at Needlework & Textile Guild of Michigan.  The instructor was Kathleen Shanteau of  http://originalsbyyarnpa...

Is It a Suit?

No!  It's a handbag, made from men's suit jackets. The challenge at my Designer group for this month was to make a handbag from men...

March Challenge

I'm finally sewing again.   But this is an insanely busy month for me, so I don't know how much I will accomplish. I belong to a sew...

Did I Mention Tubes?

Alas, I spoke too soon.  I am just home from another stay in the hospital.  Same condition as before--blockage in the lower intestine.  I ha...

No More Tubes

Seems like just about the time I get going, something happens to knock me down.  I started having excruciating abdomen pain and nausea.  I j...

The Eyes Have It

Time passes fast, even when you're NOT having fun!  The month of January and part of February have been consumed with getting my eyes fi...

Little Black Cardi

I want to thank all of you for your concern and good wishes about my eye surgery and resulting problem.  My eye has healed and I'm ready...

Back in the Blog Business

It was not a good week.  I had cataract surgery on one eye.  When my eye was clamped open, it tore.  Inside where you can't see it but t...

Note to Bunny,Sherill and Rhonda

Blogger is once again throwing me a curveball.  I am not able to comment on any of your blogs on any computer. I don't seem to have any ...

Texting Gloves

Or typing gloves, or fingerless gloves--whichever name one puts to them.  I started the NewYear off right by sewing up two pair of these eas...