Blog

Read Insightful Articles About Sewing and Fashion

Giorgio Armani 1934-2025

This is a sad day - the loss of a classic tradition. Armani held the line to fashion style that ...

The Path of a Fashion Trend

Tracking a fashion trend isn't all that hard after seeing a few of them. Living from Mid-Century Modern through Twiggy ...

The Style of The Very Wealthy

It's worth the time to look at these styles, particularly today as there is a group that wants to look ...

WOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgcNy2EgE_Q This is the way fashion used to be - pretty, flattering and I can't wait to make some of ...

The Einsteinian Zone

So no, you haven't dropped into another universe of the space-time continuum. This really is a sewing blog, but this ...

The Thoughtful Trade

The other day I was doing the laundry and suddenly my machine wasn't spinning, thus wasn't washing. It was making ...

Sometimes Bigger Is Better

So I had this fabric, that I fell in love with, in the store.....yeah, you know how that goes. Well, ...

Promises Kept

Years ago, when I was a feisty young thing, I didn't have enough sense to pick out a vocation that ...

Why Sewing Is Important?

Of course, I would say that it's important - I make my living at it and teaching it, but above ...

What Is Drape and Hang

When we're fitting a garment, this can be terms that we might not even think about. We're more interested in ...

I’m Back!!!

Yeah - I feel like singing some great Barbra Streisand song about "I'm in charge and I'm back!!!!" Actually this ...

Bust Dart

Whether this is the side bust dart or the waist bust dart, it’s truly one of the magical fitting tools ...