sewing

Day 1: squares cut and sewn together, birds cut and pinned on. Day 2: birds hand-sewn on I finished sewing a dress – the first piece of clothing I’ve made in almost 20 years. And, well, it looks like a home ec project. It’s wearable and even flattering, but I’m not ready to reveal it […]

photo from Blueprint magazine, summer 2006. I would so wear this dress. The print, the fit, the length – everything about it is perfect. I’d own it in three different prints, if I could. Actually, one of the reasons I started sewing again is so that I could make myself the same item in a

I don’t know why I decided to make these flags. I had fabric scraps, was tired of making birds and handkerchiefs, and wanted an easy-peasy sewing project before I returned to sewing my dress (more on that in a future post). While I’ve had a sewing machine for 20 years, I hadn’t learned how to
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