One of the best ways to finish a garment so that it looks handmade rather than ‘homemade’ is to use hand stitching for hems, facings and other final steps. I thought about doing some tutorials, but there are so many already out there, so I just rounded up some links for you BTW, [...]
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Hand stitching tutorials
Posted in In the Sewing Room, tagged sewing on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Frugal Friday
Posted in In the Sewing Room, Store News, tagged frugal, sewing, store on May 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rhonda, of Down to Earth, has a good post today about her and her dh reevaluating their budget in light of rising costs. Gas is now $3.99/gallon,here, and food costs are slowly rising. We are making sure lights and appliances not in use are off, hanging laundry to dry and consolidating trips into town. What [...]
Vintage Thingies Thursday- May 15th
Posted in In the Sewing Room, Vintage-y Goodness, tagged sewing, vintage on May 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Today I have more vintage style sewing for VTT! The pattern I used is a vintage Advance 5942 that my wonderful sister loaned me. I loved it- it sewed up very easily. It is an unprinted pattern, which seems to frighten some sewers off. Don’t let it! The patterns use notches and holes for all [...]
Apron Giveaway
Posted in In the Sewing Room, Vintage-y Goodness, tagged sewing on May 12, 2008 | 28 Comments »
In honor of National Wear Your Apron Day (and my birthday!),
one lucky commenter will receive this apron!
I’ll draw a winner on Wednesday at noon,
to give plenty of time
for people to enter the drawing!
Best of luck!!
And a Happy Belated Birthday to my sister and BFF, Missy!
Pop over and give her some birthday [...]
Vintage Things Thursday
Posted in In the Sewing Room, Vintage-y Goodness, tagged sewing, vintage on May 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I love vintage patterns and materials- love ‘em, love ‘em, love ‘em! I decided to post 2 pictures of things I made with vintage patterns and new materials and 2 things I made with modern patterns and vintage materials. Okay, everybody confused? Great! On with the tour!
The first is an adorable 50’s suspender shorts for [...]
Opening Soon!
Posted in Store News, tagged crafts, sewing, WAHM on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My sister and I are on our way to opening a joint venture in an Hyenacart storefront. We’ll be stocking new items weekly-things for the littles, for mamas, for crafters and for the home. I was elected to do the graphics and design….after trying to wrap my poor brain around CSS and HTML, I’m [...]
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