I’ve always winced when hemming pants and having to cut through the seam. It feels wrong to me to cut through a seam someone else has sewn. Something about patterns have felt the same way – they were magical slips of see-though paper that held the key to transforming my flat fabric into a three-dimensional garment.… Read More The pains of preparation
One of the hardest habits I’ve had to break is rushing to put all of my pieces together and divorcing myself from my sewing machine. The two biggest lessons I’ve learned are the value of hand-stitching and taking pains to prepare my pattern, fabric and marking not in chalk but thread tracing. When making my… Read More Preparing the fabric
If you’ve been anywhere near my Pinterest page, you’ll know I’ve been deeply researching capsule wardrobes. My gingham and chambray pieces were meant to coordinate so I could mix and match and get a lot of wear out of them. It worked so well, creating mini capsules has become my new sewing strategy. I went… Read More The fall collection
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