What is good fit?

Good morning, sewing friends. I am ready to start the new year off with a bang and get serious about making content for you all. Anyone ready to absorb content? (Okay, I admit, I wrote most of this late in 2023, planning to be more consistent in 2024.) I want to talk...

My Fave Tools for Sewing

We all have our favorite tools of our trade. And our favorite brands of these tools. Today I want to share mine with you. Good tools make a job so much easier, and it doesn’t have to be costly to outfit your sewing room with a few of these. Or all of them as far...

My Top 10 Tips for Garment Sewing

My Top 10 Garment Sewing Tips   1. Wash your fabric before you even start cutting. I like to wash my garment fabric as soon as I buy it. That way once I want to use it, I can just go. Prewash your fabric in as hot of water as you plan to wash the garment in, and...

Slow vs. Fast Fashion

What comes to your mind when you see those words? Certain store names or brand names? I don’t get those kinds of things in my mind, but I remember the story I read about the piles and piles of brand new clothes that get dumped into the Atacama Desert because they are...

If I could get paid to read…

I’d never be poor a day in my life. No, truly, I wouldn’t be. I devour books at an astonishing rate. And then I complain that my housework doesn’t get done. Does anyone else see the connection here?? Any hints on what the problem might be? Ha ha....