17 Feb 2013 4 Comments
Do you own a big stack of patterns and never actually get to use more than 5% of those? Yeah, me too. I recently almost bought a pattern the second time because some genius sewist made a rad dress in an ever more fantastic fabric and changed just the length of the sleeve and nothing [...]
03 Feb 2013 11 Comments
This winter I worked on slimming down my wardrobe and after an even more sliming down weekend, here I am, just a month or two away from spring with a 32 items winter wardrobe (not counting shoes, bags, intimates and workout clothes). I also wrote about this last September, when I was asking if it’s possible for a [...]
31 Jan 2013 1 Comment
There are few garments that are as versatile and as unanimously loves as the little black dress. From Coco Chanel’s puffy black dresses, to the famous Givenchy dress Audrey Hepburn wears in Breakfast at TIffany’s, to Sophia Loren‘s spagetti strapped version and a the generously low cut Marilyn Monroe versions. The little black dress is an untouchable wardrobe [...]
28 Jan 2013 No Comments
There is a certain moment in mid-February when everybody starts thinking about date night clothes. There is a certain sugar rush and a soft avalanche of pink-hued and love-flavoured garments, presents and deserts. One might not be so much into Valentine’s Day, but the garments sewists all over the world create to celebrate it are [...]
20 Jan 2013 2 Comments
I’ve only just started planning the great adventure of sewing the Truffle dress from Colette Patterns and I can’t stop thinking about the variations I could make. This is a good pattern to have. An almost basic bodice and a basic A line skirt block = a million dresses to invent. The first thing that comes [...]
13 Jan 2013 4 Comments
Can you believe it’s already the third week of January? It seems like only a few days I was napping next to the Christmas tree, eating gingerbread and enjoying the slowness of everything. But it’s the third week of January and there are things to be done, people to see, new projects to start. This [...]
06 Jan 2013 4 Comments
This is another idea from ”Precision draping; a simple method for developing designing talent” by Nelle L. Weymouth. And it seems so easy to make also: just cut a (sort of) diamond shape above the bust, then slash and spread the remaining part of the bodice to create pleats. Then sew back together. I would work with a [...]
03 Jan 2013 10 Comments
Happy New Year! May 2013 bring you many new sewing ideas and lots of hours of sewing fun. One of the books I started the year with was “Precision draping; a simple method for developing designing talent” by Nelle L. Weymouth. Published in 1889, this is a lovely book; everything is so well explained and it [...]
28 Nov 2012 9 Comments
So I wanted to make a velvet circle skirt this weekend. I’ve found the perfect fabric too: a bit stretchy and not that shiny, not too thin and not too thick, just the right velvet for a skirt. I first folded the fabric 6 times until I got a triangle shape. Then, from the tip [...]
04 Nov 2012 12 Comments
I am not a fashion student and for some time I have actually resented the idea of fashion. As if one should listen to whatever magazines or style icons of the moment dictate. And obey. However, there are a lot of shapes, fits and styles to be studied and discussed and the world of fashion has [...]
Hi, my name is Ina, I live in Barcelona and I write about sewing, garment design and pattern making
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