Whipped Out

You’ve already seen examples of Jane’s sewing prowess here on the blog, but I’m going to show you another. Early last December I was bemoaning on Twitter that I needed a new passport holder. I travel to Canada once a month and though I do have a passport holder, I wanted a wallet, because Canada [...]

I feel a certain disconnect between the judges and I about our friend Mila, but alas I am getting ahead of myself.
The Challenge: Make a dress for a Fashion Week gala incorporating a really hideous red and white Campbell’s labeled fabric for real women who had some heart related injury.  This was in conjunction with [...]

I missed last week’s episode because I went to the Lion King which was great although I thought the kid who played Simba didn’t actually sing.  This week’s episode
Challenge: Create a high end, signature piece.  The designers go to the Met and see a beautiful display gowns by top designers.
The budget was $500, the most [...]

This is the winter coat I sewed for the tot in 2007. It is based off Ottobre Design Issue 5/2006.
While I love this coat, I wouldn’t ever make it again. First, it is not warm enough to wear in temperatures below about 40 degrees.  Second, it’s hard to get your sleeves into without getting [...]

Will Lifetime ruin another season of Project Runway?  Yes, both Nina and Michael Kors are back as judges.  Heidi looks  great.  But the contestants showed a lack of vision, execution, and style.  A friend commented that she felt that the group was chosen more for their reality tv gifts than their actual sewing talent.   [...]

This winter has been very very cold and my ability to sew cold weather coats is really quite challenged. I actually didn’t even sew up a new coat. Instead, we used the one I sewed the year before.  I can sew up warm coats, but not below zero, frigid as the North Pole, coats. [...]

It’s been cold here lately. On top of that, I’ve been on the computer a lot and the combination of the two makes my wrists hurt a little more from a small amount of tendinitis. I love wrist warmers/fingerless gloves, though all I have is a cheap acrylic pair and they annoy me because the [...]

Tot received an American Girl dog (Honey, if you were wondering) for Christmas.  She really wanted the dog bed.

At $18, though, it wasn’t happening. I did think I could replicate it, or even improve upon it.  What do you think?

Materials List:

Two ovals of fabric (one will be your lining)
Two ovals of heavyweight interfacing (I [...]

When I first saw the boxy pouch tutorial, I thought it would be a delight to make but I wanted it to be lined and have the handle like the one I saw at Burda Style.   Further, I needed my boxy pouch to be larger. I didn’t know how a pouch 4.5 inches long, [...]

This year, I made teacher’s gifts using some cute craft tutorials.  First up is the journal cover.

I used this tutorial from Bloom.  While the tutorial doesn’t say this explicitly, there is no lining inside the pocket panels.  You can add a lining, but it makes it terribly difficult to turn inside out.  I don’t recommend [...]