Art Attack

I love working with panels and border prints because they challenge my creativity and present me with little puzzles that I have more f...

    Surely, the renown pinnacle of the campy Brady Bunch show was the "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha" episode. Poor Jan, it was al...

I just downloaded the first BurdaStyle U.S. magazine. The entire magazine! All 196 pages of it. Is it packed with good articles? Check....

Most of you are familiar with Clair Tharp and her ingenious measuring and finishing tools like the SA Curve for adding seam allowances,...

Well, I certainly see what all the commotion has been over this jacket! Sewaholic's Minoru is nothing short of brilliance. It'...

I'm the contest manager for the Pattern Review Lined Jacket Contest that runs from October 1-October 31, 2013. Even though I'm ine...

I may never make another buttonhole again! I just discovered the wonder of snaps after purchasing the awesome SnapSetter tool from SnapS...

It happens every year about this time. It's hot a blazes outside, a beautiful fall fabric catches my eye, and I get wistful for tha...

 Having made 6 of my 12 Grainline Studio's Archer shirts in Julie Starr's fun sew-along , I decided to give the Grainline ...

I wasn't excited about getting on the peplum bandwagon until I saw Simplicity 1590. To me, it's the true essence of the retro...

I think Rachel Comey has outdone herself with the simplicity and elegance of Vogue 1350. The hidden snap closure down the front gives a...

Not all of our sewing project can be successes.   Many years ago I was making a Vogue pattern that had a button placket down the fr...

I love the silk Archer I made for July but there was something so off about the color. I know something is not my color when I have noth...

This post is about Dominance and Submission. But wait, before you dash off to your adult toy closet for instruments of pain, let me clar...