I drove 400 miles for a tape measure

Edited -scroll down for a picture of the special tape. Last week I made a quick trip into Seattle ( Puyallup, really) to go to the Sewing and Stitchery Expo. Billed as the largest in the country, though somehow I don’t really think that’s the case, it’s pretty big. However if you’re not in the [...]

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summer clothes

 Have I ever gone so long without posting? Hmmm.  Lately I just have no words. It’s true. I have been sewing though. I started with a couple skirts: The first is a great print "Home Sewing is Easy" which reverses to  tiny high heels. I hadn’t planned on a reversible skirt, but I wanted the black piping [...]

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sewing

I can’t say that I’ve been sewing this week. Working outside, planting, painting the little boat soon-to-be-planter somehow upstaged that. But all the time I’m doing those other things I think about sewing. What to work on next, what fabric, pattern, all that. What could I make, and sell? Ever the million dollar question, but [...]

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patt-o-rama

That was actually the name of a mail order pattern company fifty-some years ago. patt-o-rama. You can’t not smile when you say that name. I have a couple of them, along with another few dozen assorted small mail order companies like Anne Adams, Marian Martin, American Weekly, and Fashion Service. Though I haven’t finished yet, the inventory list is really growing.Today I [...]

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do you have the “know how look”?

through one of the sewing lists that I read, this video was mentioned, and  I thought I’d attempt to share it here:update: I couldn’t seem to get the embed thing to work so here is the link: http://www.archive.org/details/Patternf1948 it’s kind of long, but a fun peek into another era.

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