Sewing for the Season: Fall 2015 Pantone

  Anticipated colors for this fall and winter. Image from material at www.Pantone.com. Once upon a time in the early days of this blog, I looked forward to writing about Pantone's seasonal colors on the equinox, the first day of their respective season. My enjoyment came partly because you guys often had such lively opinions about the chosen colors, partly…

Friday Finds for Sewing Well

Hi friends!  It's been busy around here to say the least.  I carved out a bit of time this evening to dust the cobwebs off this blog, but then it's back to the grindstone again tomorrow.  The end of at least a large chunk of the crazy-busy is in sight though, and I can't tell you…

Silk Summer Tanks Times Three: Adventures in Polly Tops

You might have seen this post go live yesterday on MSN.  But, I wanted to give a little bit of a preamble here to explain that a good bit of the behind-the-scenes inspiration for making these Polly Tops was this month's #oonapalooza.  Not in the tops themselves, but in the making of three.  You see, back at…

Home Sewing Drama

My husband has been traveling a lot this summer for work.  Right now he's currently on an island in the Pacific.  People often ask me why I don't travel with him when he's in these exotic locales, but, to be honest, when he's in the field he's working 24/7, so I know I'd still pretty…

Pleat Hem Dart – PhDs and Sewing

Recently, the sewing world and the scientific world united in celebration over Seamstress Erin getting her Ph.D.  With her degree in hand, Erin's had a bit of time to reflect on how important sewing and knitting and quilting and crochet and...  well, you get the point... were to getting her to the end of graduate school.  So, she's putting together…

Friday Finds for Sewing Well

There's been a lot of radio silence on the blog this month.  I've missed the creativity that writing brings and the joy I get from being an active part of the online sewing community, but there's just been so much going on outside of the internet.  In a nutshell my husband and I bought our…

An Aurora in Voile: The Reveal

Hooray!  I finally finished the Aurora Dress, the one I've been planning since early fall!  And, would you believe that it does in fact fit my pregnant self just like I'd hoped?!  Fitting around my belly is no small feat these days considering how large I've gotten.  It's mind boggling that my belly can expand…

Reflecting on 2013

As 2013 comes to a close, I can't help but jump on Gillian of Crafting a Rainbow's "Top 5" craze that's going around the sewing internets.  Unfortunately, one of the things that has been impacted the most by this pregnancy in the last two months is my grasp on creative writing.  Seriously, these days when…

Friday Finds for Sewing Well

Well, I don't expect I'll be able to post Friday Finds every week, particularly with a baby due in less than a month, but I'm excited to have found a few things this week to help solidify this series a bit.  This week is all about sales, sales, new patterns, and more sales. As for…

Friday Finds for Sewing Well

I thought up this series last week when it seemed like everywhere I looked there was a Friday the 13th fabric sale.  Well, at first I was thinking of writing about my "Friday Fabric Finds", but when time got the best of me and the post didn't happen, I realized that I shouldn't just limit…