22 Feb 2013 3 Comments
I’ve started my spring cleaning and instead of rolling my sleeves and getting to work I’m here blogging, and reading about other people who clean :) I really like the idea of the Apartment Therapy cure: in one month you get to clean, organize and improve the space you live in by doing something every [...]
06 Feb 2013 8 Comments
I’ve talked and praised blocks many times before. Blocks are the base of all garments and are normally made of 5 base pieces: a front bodice, a back bodice, a front skirt, a back skirt and a sleeve. Many dress patterns can be used as they are or modified into a basic block. Here I [...]
02 Aug 2012 3 Comments
Reuse, remake, mend. Spend, buy, consume. How many clothes do you buy in a month? What about a year? And how many of those do you end wearing more than once? Today’s mantras are “buy the shoes, you only live once”,”I work hard, I deserve that new dress” and “I am sad therefore I shop”. [...]
03 Jul 2012 9 Comments
Today I am launching a new column dedicated to clothing refashions and hacks: Liberty Refashions. The column is sponsored by SewBox and features a series of three tutorials that show you how to turn a garment you’re not wearing anymore into something you love. I am going to use liberty fabrics in all three tutorials; because [...]
05 Jun 2012 No Comments
I made this last year and maybe wore it once. There was something wrong with it and I didn’t know what, but I kept it. A winter has passed and the other day I had the revelation. It was too long and the elastic I’ve inserted in the hem didn’t do this blouse any justice. [...]
21 May 2012 12 Comments
Introduction Since two months ago when I first started talking about this experimental sewing course I’ve been reading and taking notes and thinking of a good way to organize it. How do you start teaching pattern making when you are learning yourself? From my own experience, and I am very curious to see if [...]
25 Apr 2012 4 Comments
Tshirts. We all have one. What am I saying, we all have at least a dozen. Printed with crazy messages, in both bold and neutral colours, we have t-shirts for the gym, t-shirts for work, t-shirts for gardening, t-shirts for dinner parties… there are very few things that one can’t do wearing a t-shirt. In [...]
01 Mar 2012 12 Comments
Fabric, thread, yarn, buttons, felt, old clothes, magazines, patterns I will probably never use, clothes I haven’t worn in more than a year, shoes I’m not wearing anymore, old kitchenware and lines, you’re in danger to be thrown out this month. Out with the old and in with the new, out with the clutter and in with [...]
18 Feb 2012 9 Comments
Spring might be far far away if you look at the calendar or even outside, yet there’s no better way to bring a bit of spring in your heart than fantasize about it. I’ve been thinking of making a rubber stamp and then printing fabric to make a blouse. I’m considering a few types of [...]
01 Nov 2011 2 Comments
When I first accidentally dropped bleach on them the first time, these shoes were 7 days old. After that they’ve faced the world as the ugly duckling for a few months before I decided what to do with them.
Hi, my name is Ina, I live in Barcelona and I write about sewing, garment design and pattern making
A Green Meringue Skirt 
On Sewing with a Time Limit and the Beautiful Sewers of the British Bee 
Thinking About: Yellow Trousers 
The Tails Spring Jacket: Finished 
How to Manage Your Sewing Time 
