I am so, so excited to be teaching at Riley Blake’s Cutting Corners College today! I would love if you’d click over and check out my tutorial for making comfortable knit pants for your whole family. There are tips for sewing with knit fabrics, instructions for making an elastic-free waistband, and directions for making your…
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Chatting about Sewing Outerwear at GYCT
I’m visiting over at Get Your Crap Together today, sharing tips and ideas for sewing children’s outerwear. To check it out, just click on the picture above! And, as a total aside, the more I look at that photo, the more it looks like Jamie is about to swat Charlie. I promise he was really…
Selfish Sewing Week – My Plan
Selfish Sewing Week starts today! Do you have a plan? What are sewing for YOU?! I’m at that slightly awkward point in pregnancy where you don’t really look pregnant, but nothing fits anymore. I’ve been using the rubberband-around-the-button-and-through-the-buttonhole trick to fasten my jeans, but honestly, I’d rather just hang out in yoga pants and a…
Aprons with a Dash of LoveA New Create Hope Designs Pattern!
Have you seen that Hopeful Threads is doing a Create Hope Designs Sew-Along this month? If you’re not familiar with CHD, I encourage you to go read the project announcement for this month — it’ll give you a great overview: September CHD Sewalong. Oh, and don’t miss yesterday’s post all about China Little Flower, the…
The Jersey Love Blog Tour Wrap-Up
Whew! It’s hard to believe that the Jersey Love Blog Tour is over already! I had a blast seeing all the Beachcomber Dresses, Downtown V-Necks, Carnival Skorts and Runaround Pants sewn by this collection of talented sewing bloggers in those amazing Riley Blake Jersey Basics. If you missed any of them along the way, be…
The Jersey Love Blog Tour Day #8
We’re closing out the Jersey Love Blog Tour with two more amazing bloggers today! Shannon from Little Kids Grow has a Downtown V-Neck to share, and Max from Max California is showing off a pair of Runaround Pants! Shannon is a talented seamstress, a busy homeschooling mom to six (soon to be seven) and…
The Jersey Love Blog Tour Day #7
The Jersey Love Blog Tour is speeding along! We’re all the way up to Day 7! Today, Laura from Crafty Hour and Suzanne from Winter Wonderings . . . Wanderings and Whatnot are each sharing TWO Jersey Love patterns sewn with Riley Blake’s Jersey Basics. (Between the two blog posts this morning, you’ll get…
The Jersey Love Blog Tour Day #6
It’s Day 6 of the Jersey Love Blog Tour! Today, we’re visiting Caroline at Sew Can She and Suzanne at Making More with Less for their versions of the Runaround Pants and the Beachcomber Dress!My talented friend (and another of my nearby neighbors), Caroline, gathers tutorials from sewing bloggers around the world and shares…
The Jersey Love Blog Tour Day #5
Welcome back to the second week of the Jersey Love Blog Tour! Kristy from Hopeful Threads and Vanessa from Designs by Sessa are up today with a pair of Runaround Pants and a Beachcomber Dress both sewn with those amazing Riley Blake Jersey Basics.Kristy from Hopeful Threads is not only an incredibly talented seamstress,…
Fishsticks & Jersey Love at Spring Quilt Market
The Jersey Love Blog Tour will be back tomorrow! We’ve got eight more amazing bloggers coming up this week. In the meantime, I thought I’d share a few pictures from Spring Quilt Market a few months ago. I had planned to attend, but we had a last minute change of plans. Rachael from imagine gnats…