21 May 2013 1 Comment
Hey there! How’s it going? It’s full spring here, which means it rains for 2 hours, then the sky turns blue, the sun is up for one hour, you do all your laundry, put your clothes to air dry in the beautiful sun and the second you clipped the last item on the clothesline, it [...]
15 May 2013 7 Comments
The Meringue was the first Colette pattern I worked with. Despite being a very straightforward pattern and project, and modifying the pattern before sewing I still had to shorten it and fumble with the scallops. I wasn’t sure if I would wear this – it’s somewhere in between sweet and too sweet for me. And the cheap Ikea [...]
14 Apr 2013 3 Comments
A muslin! And an almost ready jacket pattern! It’s been a good day. Pattern modifications: The only thing I modified on the Patrones pattern was the front-back shape. What you see here is a second, shortened version, as the longer version looked too boxy. Maybe I’ll play with this more for my next jacket. Pattern [...]
23 Feb 2013 No Comments
Even though I had doubts in the beginning and waited for a long time before getting a copy, I am quite happy with my purchase of the Colette Sewing Handbook. It is a book for beginners, but the patterns themselves and the step by step descriptions make it a great book to have even for more advanced [...]
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 Oct 2012 5 Comments
I want to learn how to make classic shirts. I gave it a lot of thinking before buying the man shirt Colette pattern Negroni. I considered making my own, which doesn’t seem too complicated; or transforming a button-less shirt pattern I have in a copy of Burda magazine (before it was Burdastyle, ha!) However, as I am [...]
31 Mar 2012 2 Comments
Have you seen Tilly’s recent pattern usage statistics from her latest sewing challenge, the One Week One Pattern (OWOP) challenge? What a brilliant idea, don’t you think? Sewing + statistics = love Apart from sharing her findings (the majority of sewists in her survey prefer Colette Patterns, then Simplicity and thirdly, they make their own [...]
28 Feb 2012 13 Comments
Beware, my hand printed bird flock. On a blouse I made :) The blouse is mostly the Sherlock Holmes Burda pattern. Yep the one I was complaining I didn’t like so much. Turns out that if you sew this pattern in a smaller size than your Burda size, scoop a bit more of the cleavage [...]
19 Feb 2012 4 Comments
I fell in love with this blouse the moment I saw it. And then I found the perfect fabric for it. It’s a simple patterns from Burda Style’s December 2011 issue (I think it’s January, since they changed the cover I never know which number I am flicking through). On the website you can find [...]
Hi, my name is Ina, I live in Barcelona and I write about sewing, garment design and pattern making
Sewing a Negroni Shirt – Collar Issues 
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 
