13 Oct 2012 2 Comments
I’ve talked about pattern blocks and how they can make pattern making easier by offering a basic template to work on. Instead of buying pre-drafted pattern blocks I decided to make my own. It isn’t as difficult as it sounds, especially if you have a copy of Helen Joseph Armstrong’s Pattern Making for Fashion Design. [...]
10 Oct 2012 No Comments
I don’t know about you but lately it feels like I never get the time to sew. Tracing the pattern, cutting it, making the muslin, it all takes a lot of time. My future fall projects are all new patterns, new techniques (I want to learn to make shirts and to finally sew a coat [...]
07 Oct 2012 25 Comments
Are you just starting to sew, want to learn more about it and eventually sew your own clothes? You’ve probably bought a sewing machine. From my experience as a sewist, there are 3 ways of looking at sewing out there: They say “Oh you made that? That’s great!” only to realize a few moment later [...]
04 Oct 2012 3 Comments
Dear October, I’ve missed you. I missed waking up on a Saturday with the sound of the rain, drinking hot chocolate and looking out the window. I missed wearing scarfs, my leather jacket and boots. There’s a marshmallow hot chocolate recipe on the A Beautiful Mess blog that I’ve been waiting to make for a couple of [...]
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 [...]
02 Oct 2012 7 Comments
I’ve been running away from velvet since 4th grade when my godmother made me a green velvet pinafore, which was more like a long tube of elastic velvet with two fat straps and a piece of cotton lace dyed green. I couldn’t say exactly why I disliked this garment of even why I kept running away from [...]
29 Sep 2012 13 Comments
A few weeks ago, after finishing a batch of the medium sized world map totes I sell on Etsy I decided to try something new. I had these denim that I saved from a pair of jeans I cropped and some faux leather scraps that had been occupying space in my scrap fabric box for [...]
28 Sep 2012 2 Comments
Hello sewists! We interrupt this sewing program to talk about food. About recipes, cooking and what you can do with food (other than eating it:). This is just a quick update from my food blog This Foodie to make sure you don’t starve when sewing :) Soft Top Apple Pie Recipe Did you know late September [...]
19 Sep 2012 No Comments
This fall I want to learn how to sew and then draft my own shirts patterns. I’ve almost finished a shirt before and I’ve deconstructed several, so I consider myself ready for the job :) I’ve read good things about the Negroni shirt pattern from Colette, more in terms of the construction and sewing how [...]
16 Sep 2012 9 Comments
I am procrastinating preparing for my fall closet organizing and as always I wish I had less stuff to move around and put back on hangers. Lately I started working towards keeping less clothes in my closet (I have archives :) and it generally kept me happier during summer. Yet fall asks for more layers, [...]
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 
