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Y’all, I’m Moving the Sewing Party to Substack – Come On Over!
Y’all, I’m Moving the Sewing Party to Substack – Come On Over! Hey there, sewing friends! 🧵✂️ After a lot of thinking (and maybe one too many cups of coffee), I’ve decided it’s time to pack up my virtual sewing basket. I’m moving our little corner of the internet over to Substack. It’s where more folks are gathering these days, and I want to stitch and chat with every single one of you! Click right on this post preview to read the rest of it! The New Plan So here’s the pla
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Houston Quilt Show Ramblins’
FINALLY back from the Houston where my friend, Glenda and I manned booths at both Quilt Market (wholesale) & Festival (retail)!!! On the...
New Jacket completed for Houston
Back from the Original Sewing & QuiltingExpo in St.Charles, IL. Terri from Indianapolis was great help, and we had a blast. I felt the...
Novi Show Report – American Sewing Expo
Back and recovered from Novi Show – American Sewing Expo in Novi, Michigan – had a GREAT time and an amazing helper in Cyndi! Here’s a...
New Crop of Jackets ‘Birthed’
I don’t know why – but a couple weeks before a show- I lay awake atnight creating the design for new jackets. Sew….here’s the latest...
Londa ‘published’ in magazine and new book
Exciting Days – my work has recently been published! Sweatshirts with a Twist is a book edited by the editor of Clotilde’s Sew Savvy...
USA Pride Jacket
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Newest Fabrics to Join my Stash
Am I stuck in a black/cream, black/white mode or what???? Perhaps it is because of all the positive comments I get on the jacket you see...
Thank You Jacket for a Friend
Well – it goes in the mail today! I hope she’ll absolutely LOVE it and feel it was worth the wait! Karen selected one of my kits while I...
Child’s Jacket – Promised
Is this just too cute, or what?? What fun I had with this one! I actually started with an adult XL sweatshirt – and used it AS FABRIC. I...
Cleaning Out & BUSY Creating pattern: Promised
These days find me busy busy cleaning out the ENTIRE house! I started at the top and am to the basement. Watch my londas-sewing.com...
Creative Sweatshirt Jacket Question & Answer
Ann from Kansas writes: Hi Londa, I have your Ultimate Jacket Collection CD. I want to make some for my mother who is 80 yrs. old, about...
Dyeing Ribbon & Jacket Kits
I did the ‘rough’ part – over a weekend, and you wouldn’t have believed the mess! Nearly drove my hubby crazy – as this all occurs in the...
Jacket/ How-to’s in Sew Savvy Magazine
Yea – it’s out! My first magazine article since Creative Needle back in the early 90’s. Sew Savvy – March issue that just hit the stands....
Refined & Pathways pattern development
I saw a jacket with eensy strips of bias irridescent silk doupioni and so I’m playing with that – which you can’t see very well on this...
Brass Striped Unity Jacket
A ‘stuffed sausage’ collar covered with the bias cut striped fabric completed this jacket. I’m still ‘noodling’ the closures – and onto a...
Progress report on new patterns
Well – I’m hard at work designing – stitching – and then typing. My hubby snapped a pic of me at my old ironing board where I have my...
ReCycle Jacket with Sweat, Jeans, Tie
The Second jacket for my Unity pattern – this one to replace a favorite of mine (and apparently someone else’s – as it was swiped right...
ReCycle Sewing: Sweatshirt + Sweater
UNITY The challenge here is that the sweatshirt is a 2XL. My duct tape double is not a 2XL – more like a 10/12. So – don’t expect it to...
Jacket Pattern Design Process
It occurred to me while in the mess you see to the left, that it might be interesting to ‘sewing crazy ladies’ like myself, to follow...
‘WORTHY’ – my first Sweatshirt Jacket Pattern released
YEA!!!!! My first actual ‘pattern’ for a Creative Sweatshirt Jacket is now available. I’m busy tonight emailing it out to everyone who...
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