How to create all-in-one facings! A tutorial for a clean, professional, top-stitching-free bodice finish!
How to create all-in-one facings! A tutorial for a clean, professional, top-stitching-free bodice finish!
Hi there readers! I feel like I should re-introduce myself after that crazy long blog break. (it’s me, Adrianna.) It was a good break though, with birthdays and holidays and visitors and vacations. But now I’m ready to do some sewing and blogging again so I thought I’d kick off 2013 with a new... Read More »
How to create all-in-one facings! A tutorial for a clean, professional, top-stitching-free bodice finish!
How to create all-in-one facings! A tutorial for a clean, professional, top-stitching-free bodice finish!
Hi there readers! I feel like I should re-introduce myself after that crazy long blog break. (it’s me, Adrianna.) It was a good break though, with birthdays and holidays and visitors and vacations. But now I’m ready to do some sewing and blogging again so I thought I’d kick off 2013 with a new... Read More »
How to create all-in-one facings! A tutorial for a clean, professional, top-stitching-free bodice finish!
Hi there readers! I feel like I should re-introduce myself after that crazy long blog break. (it’s me, Adrianna.) It was a good break though, with birthdays and holidays and visitors and vacations. But now I’m ready to do some sewing and blogging again so I thought I’d kick off 2013 with a new... Read More »
How to create all-in-one facings! A tutorial for a clean, professional, top-stitching-free bodice finish!
This one’s an oldie but a goodie. Refashion a knit shirt by inserting panels of fabric on the sides. The practical reasons behind doing this refashion could be: 1. make a small shirt bigger 2. make a big shirt smaller 3. get rid of unsightly evidence of perspiration 4. use tapered fabric inserts to make... Read More »
I had no reason to make this dress, it’s really just about the fabric. Here’s what happened: I went to the fabric store looking for an ungodly amount of garish polyester for halloween costumes, but amidst all the petroleum based bolts, I discovered this: A gorgeous pre-stitched one hundred percent cotton bolt of loveliness. ... Read More »
Warning: Completely unrelated to Skirt Week. Totally stole Adrianna’s baby’s photo to help make my point. There are lots of reasons to love and hate Pinterest. Most of which have already been stated and re-stated and argued and re-argued. What I have to say, at least in this post, is more informative than anything else.... Read More »
Wondering what a serger is? How it works? What it does? We cover that AND the cover hem machine in detail!
A few cuts and a tiny bit of sewing make this t-shirt to tank a quick and easy refashion.
Wondering what a serger is? How it works? What it does? We cover that AND the cover hem machine in detail!
Last year Stacey invited some blogging friends to challenge themselves to design fabric for a swap partner and then sew with the Spoonflower fabric the partner had designed for them. Delia and I were paired up, and whaaaat a challenge it turned out to be. I had a baby, we both moved and the timeline... Read More »
A few cuts and a tiny bit of sewing make this t-shirt to tank a quick and easy refashion.
Years ago I happened to try a broccoli cranberry salad at a pot luck. I’m still surprised I tried it – raw broccoli is generally not my thing, but THIS. THIS form of raw broccoli is my thing. Because it’s small pieces of broccoli swimming among the amazingness of good ingredient friends that all work... Read More »
Years ago I bought a dress form. If you’re sewing for yourself, a dress form is essential. I mean, unless you like trying to apply and remove a garment from your body repeatedly and suffering pin injuries like a human voodoo doll. There are lots of ways to make one that fits you perfectly. I... Read More »
Update! The Aegean Swim Cover is now available for purchase! Buy the .pdf pattern and you’ll take all the guess work out of making beach towel dresses/cover-ups, and you’ll also get 4 different style options! There is still the original ruffle dress, but now you can also make a dress without a ruffle, a... Read More »
A seam ripper is a fantastic tool, but it comes with warnings. And now you can use this free printable to warn those AROUND you, too.
This sauce is awesome.
I know I’m just one of 3 billion people obsessed with tiny things. Recently it’s been tiny confetti and tiny canvases. So when I saw (after reading LPM’s post here) that you can print tiny books made of your Instagram photos, I jumped at it. I think I thought it’d make a great Christmas gift,... Read More »
Today I’d like to share a fun and easy summer staple, the Breezy Linen Skirt! I made this skirt as part of Simple Simon & Co and Project Run and Play‘s Skirting the Issue Event, where they are collecting skirts to donate to girls living in foster care. I hope you’ll take the time to... Read More »
Two of my favorite things, and now even better together! I recently bought a pair of custom made sandals from this cool local shop where a guy fits your foot to a sole and then literally builds the sandal of your choice around your foot. He made each strap fit perfectly around my foot, and... Read More »
How to create all-in-one facings! A tutorial for a clean, professional, top-stitching-free bodice finish!
We’ve done a few Crafty Bits Tours in the past. They’re not comprehensive tours so much as snapshots of inspiration along the way. We’ve done London, Berlin and Las Vegas. Not a strange collection at all. We twisted our friend Kim’s arm into photographing a spring trip to Holland, and posting it now means that if you... Read More »
I was lucky enough to be able to sew up one of the patterns from the Perfect Pattern Parcel this week. The PPP is a bundle of 5 really terrific patterns being sold together. Part of the proceeds are donated to charity, so if you’ve been eyeing any of these patterns, this is a great... Read More »
VOTE HERE!!! You guys!! Project Sewn has FINALLY begun! I can’t even tell you how excited I am to see what my fellow contestants have been up to. I feel like we’ve all been sewing toward the same goal for months now but we had to keep it a secret the whole time! I’m competing... Read More »
This classic shirt is about as easy as peasy gets. It’s the perfect project to conquer your fear of knits (that is, if you have one) and you don’t need a serger. NO SERGER! Got that?! First, a note about knits. For this type of fitted knit shirt, you need to use jersey, or something... Read More »
Two women who craft and sew for home, kids and themselves.
Free racerback dress PDF pattern and tutorial
This past January I was one of the many folks who schlepped out to Salt Lake City for the Altitude Design Summit. I wrote here, here, here and here about the conference. When I set foot in my house again I was an overstretched water balloon of information and ideas and it took a while... Read More »
A list of podcast and listening resources for use while crafting, sewing, making anything.
Simple step-by-step tutorial to make confetti soap.
Well that’s a bit cheeky. Because it’s a potholder! Get it?! As in, “I will hold the hot things so you don’t have to”? That probably would’ve been funnier if I hadn’t tried to explain it. Let’s ignore my very individual sense of humor (inherited from my mom) and enjoy the freehand concentric heart quilting... Read More »
If you don't follow Crafterhours, (you should really check them out, they are nice people who say nice things about me....) then you don't know about this skirt. Jess and I made this tutorial for their skirt week. It is an easy bias skirt we made from linen and jersey knit. I want to wear mine all the time. Seriously. Go to Crafterhours for the tutorial. If you happen to make a shirt, the skirt waistband and the skirt in the same color fabric, you can have something that looks like a dress but is far more versatile. Outtakes......... We're so lucky he puts up with us. Hammock vs Uber Guess who won?
The idea started simply enough. My six-year-old is fully into Halloween. I’ve wanted to do creepy and fun silhouettes in our front windows and this is finally the year that I had time to do it. Why not make the creepy silhouette of my own kid as a zombie? During the day it’s creepy from... Read More »
So, last time I made this shirt, I didn’t call it anything. I’m officially naming it the “Petal Shirt”. I know, creative, right? I didn’t inherit my mom’s ability to come up with funny pun-y titles. You’ll need a yard of nice soft knit, coordinating thread, some fusible interfacing, and 1/4 inch elastic. Make sure... Read More »
We try a surgical seam ripper - arguably the scariest sewing tool!
You have your rose-colored glasses handy, right? Because I’m about to share the PINK skater dress I made as part of the Shades of Me sewing series! It’s a sewing challenge series hosted by Petit a Petit + Family and Welcome to the Mouse House, and the idea is simply to sew something monochromatic and... Read More »
Oh gosh I loved this day. I think these two are my favorite Greenpoint Cardigans so far. I’m not a super girly girl, but I can’t get enough of those floral appliques and pink trim. I would say it’s my favorite, but then there’s that navy and gray and the anchor and the elbow patches…let’s... Read More »
Something I’m thankful for this week: Spoonflower I Spy Swap 3 is finished! All of the participants should have their fabric in-hand now. Or under-presser-foot. Whichever. There are a handful of picks in this swap that’ve been chosen in previous swaps. The cameras, kites and alligators, for example. I love the variety of color and... Read More »
A demonstration of what a cover hem machine does.
In the interest of future, differently chromosomed offspring, everything I bought for baby girl #1 was gender neutral. But when I found out that our 3rd and final baby was yet again a big old double X, I went girl-print crazy. You already saw the formerly-green-carseat-turned-floral-liberty-print. Now let me show you the formerly-blue-gingham-glider-turned-floral-AMH-print. (florals and... Read More »
This one’s an oldie but a goodie. Refashion a knit shirt by inserting panels of fabric on the sides. The practical reasons behind doing this refashion could be: 1. make a small shirt bigger 2. make a big shirt smaller 3. get rid of unsightly evidence of perspiration 4. use tapered fabric inserts to make... Read More »
