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Drape Drape book drop waist gathered dress
Laurence King Publishing was kind enough to send me a copy of Drape Drape by Hisako Sato to try out. It’s my first experience using a Japanese pattern book so I wasn’t sure how hard it would be or if...
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An affordable guide for pattern grading…?
I mentioned that I bought this book on Twitter a few days ago (yeah, I’m back on Twitter, go follow me and I’ll follow you back!). I don’t exactly remember how I stumbled upon this little booklet,...
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So Many Japanese Pattern Books!
If you read a lot of sewing blogs you’ve probably figured out by now that the publisher of such delightful Japanese pattern books, like the one I used to make the shirt above, like to pass out their...
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Burda Style Book Blouse #3
The Goal: This shirt, my first version of this pattern, is my most worn and most favorite shirt I own/have made. I sewed it back in August of 2012 and it’s starting to show it’s age. If I didn’t wear...
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Library Love: Sewing books
I don’t often buy books because it just creates more clutter in my house. However, I do abuse my library priviledges when it comes to sewing books. My most recent trip I got a few gems, including two...
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Burdastyle Sewing Handbook Bag
Sorry for being MIA this last week or so. I swear I’ve been sewing a bunch but taking time to take pics is hard. But now I have much to share with you! The Goal: This month’s Bibliostyles was a choose...
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Burdastyle Book Blouse #2
The Goal: I loved my first burda blouse (peplums! yay!) so much so I wanted another. The Pattern: The blouse pattern from the Burdastyle Sewing Handbook. I made a straight size 38 with a couple design...
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Overdressed, the book, not me
Yeah, I jumped on the bandwagon and read this book, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline (thanks public library!). While the book wasn’t especially surprising...
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Travel Sewing: Train-Style Vanity Case from A Bag for All Reasons
Something about this last vacation made me interested in sewing useful things for travelling. Maybe it’s because I finally got to use my travel pillow I made months ago (and it was amazing! I could...
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And I’m Back! With a BurdaStyle Blouse
Yes, I have returned! With a new computer! That I got, like, today. First of all, I was thisclose to finishing my new pattern when my old laptop gave out and I have yet to install Adobe Illustrator on...
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