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Comfy Yet Attractive Elastic Waistline Finishes
For comfy yet a ready-to-wear look on elastic waistlines, follow these directions from Londa.
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All of Londa's Sewing Articles
My Blog here is a work in progress...having just brought over all 618 of my posts from my 'Old Blog' which I began in 2005! Please excuse the duplications for a spell while I go through them all.
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Wedding Sewing Progress-Mother of Bride (me) and Bride
I’ve decided God must have been watching out for me that I didn’t go ahead and finish my dress earlier last fall when I got going on it...
Newest Creative Sweatshirt Jackets….
Here are my latest Creative Sweatshirt Jackets… I love, love, love this grey one – which I came up with while designing for one of my...
Wedding Gown Creation…a NEW Beginning
Scratch that design from January…when we went to the local independent Bridal shop a few weeks ago, my daughter fell in love with an ALL...
Basic Black Pant and Top Sewing
For Londa’s books, patterns, and supplies as described in her sewing escapades, please see Londa’s Creative Threads –...
Mom’s new Jacket
It’s done – YEA! Below are process steps. The corally texture fabric is actually gores from an 8 gore skirt of mine that I had decided I...
Embellish a Hoodie
Starting with a pull0ver hoodie sweatshirt – I slashed it up the center, added a hood lining cut on the bias, bands up the center front,...
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...
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...
Fine Pant Finishing Details
These are my favorite Chico’s pants. I bought 2 pair last December on sale – for about $15! Anyway – LOVE these fine details – and you...
USA Pride Jacket
For Londa’s books, patterns, and supplies as described in her sewing escapades, please see Londa’s Creative Threads –...
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...
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...
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