24 Mar 2013 21 Comments
Oh Yay! That time again. Let’s fold those sweaters out of sight and hide those coats and boots and start planning for… This spring I am going to limit myself to only 4 items. This means I have 3 weeks to plan, find or draft a pattern, find the fabric and sew each item. Seems [...]
23 Mar 2013 12 Comments
Google is retiring Google Reader. Oh, my, what are we all supposed to do? I might have shed a tear or ten but now the time has come to decide what I’ll move to my next RSS reader. I haven’t decided yet which one I’m going to choose, but I am thinking about Feedly, Netvibes, Bloglovin. [...]
17 Mar 2013 3 Comments
Have you ever spotted a dress, a coat, a jacket, what have you, loved it, had to have it, made it (or bought it), only to realize there is something terribly wrong with it, that will never allow you to wear it happily? Maybe it’s too transparent, or maybe it clings too much, maybe it [...]
03 Mar 2013 4 Comments
Oh, man, March is already here. I wish Spring was a bit more obvious around these parts, but I know there are many places in the world where it’s still snowing so Barcelona’s blue skies and toothy wind will have to do for now. I haven’t done much sewing lately and part of it is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
16 Feb 2013 2 Comments
How to throw away things. That is the question. If you’ve been reading this blog in the last few months (thank you!) you won’t be surprised to see me writing about owning less stuff. And even doing less stuff. We keep things because we don’t want to deal with asking difficult questions, such as: does [...]
10 Feb 2013 6 Comments
How many of the things you do in your free time are (still) meaningful to you? If you could learn anything, what would it be? Why are you sewing? Why are you blogging? Before I get to the point and explain why I’m asking those questions, I will start with a short (super-short, I promise) [...]
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 [...]
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 
