Happiness Through Sewing
When I was writing about the different types of decorative patches I thought of Alabama Chanin’s embellished knitwear. I know, I know; they aren’t patches, their applique so I didn’t include that idea in the Eight Easy Ways to Make Your Own Patches post. However, I couldn’t not include it on the site. Alabama Chanin designs feature […] Read more…
I use to cringe whenever one of my children earned another scout badge. Ug, sewing those tough little things onto a sash was bad enough, but sewing them onto the chest pocket was the worse. Other moms advised me to glue the badges on, or to buy Badge Magic at the scout store (how convenient). […] Read more…
There are two sides to patches besides the front and the back. There are the real patches, the work horse, practical, I got a hole that needs covering patch and then there’s the strictly fun, I have no purpose other than decoration type of patch (which I suppose technically should be called applique) Both types of patches […] Read more…
Sign up here for The Daily Sew’s Newsletter & Get Your Free Pattern and Detailed Instructions. As my embarrassingly large fabric stash suggests, it is often hard to decide and commit to making some fabrics into some thing. To cut into that fabric. To give up all the other possibilities of what that fabric could become. […] Read more…
Turning jeans into skirts isn’t a new idea and was certainly never my idea. When I was growing up everything was DIY and clothes weren’t as cheap as they are today so there was a lot of upcycling going on (did anyone else have fabric ruffles added to their too short jeans?) And although I […] Read more…
Earlier this week my local quilt shop hosted a charity sewing event. I think it was the highlight of my week. It wasn’t that it was a morning sewing with others in a fabric store, no less, which could easily be the highlight of a typical week for me. No, the highlight was what we were doing that […] Read more…
Me-Made-May is a month long, set your own level, challenge for people to wear their self-made clothing. My Me-Made-May ’17 challenge was to wear one me-made item every day and to mend/alter eight items from my mend/alter pile so I would have more me-mades to wear before the month was out. Well, it wasn’t a complete […] Read more…
Although you could sew most garments entirely by machine there are many times and many construction techniques that you could sew more accurately, with more beautiful results, and maybe, in the long run, sew it even faster, if you turned off your sewing machine and stitched by hand. This is a tale of two hand […] Read more…
Have you ever needed to make a simple little something but you made it more complicated then it needed to be? Well, actually, I do that a lot. Maybe “complicated” is too negative, let’s use the word “fancy” instead. Like when you make a sandwich but you take an extra step and add lettuce. Fancy. I […] Read more…
I did it. I signed up for this year’s Me Made May. It’s my second time now and I’m uppin’ the ante. Zoe, the hostess of and genius behind, Me Made May, says, “Me Made May ’17 is a challenge designed to encourage people who sew/knit/crochet/refashion/upcycle garments for themselves to wear and love them more.” If only all my […] Read more…