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Comfy Yet Attractive Elastic Waistline Finishes
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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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RE-Cycled T-Shirt Dress w/ Angie
Yesterday, I had a blast helping my friend Angie learn to sew – VERY creatively – as I guided her in designing and creating a summer...
Spring Shopping Trip – Observations and more…
Disgusting Dressing Room ‘Cleanliness’? Late last week I squeezed in a quick shopping trip to my favorite department store in town –...
A Great Re-Cycled Denim Vest
I’m so sorry I don’t have this clever gal’s name to share – but when she came to my booth in Puyallup, we were all impressed with her...
SWAP – Sewing with a Plan – Londa’s NEW Travel Wardrobe
OK – so yes, I do sometimes travel NOT for business, and I’ve recently been inspired finally create a travel wardrobe – purposefully,...
More…’Flirty Flounces’ Knit Tops
I’m on a roll! All the designing and sewing is DONE! Now to decipher my cryptic notes, put photos in order, and write and record...
Londa’s Jacket in Sew News Magazine!
Londa’s Sew News Sweatshirt Jacket – photo by Brent Ward I’m tickled pink to have one of my creative sweatshirt jackets in the current...
Puyallup Sewing & Stitchery Expo 2013 – Registation OPEN
Sewing & Stitchery Expo Puyallup 2013 – Registration OPEN I’m SEW EXCITED I get to go – AND teach – AND present on the FREE STAGE this...
Rolled Hem Hints
Water Soluble Stabilizer on top of Rolled Hem Rolled Hems – on a serger. These are my ‘tricks’ for success….. Learned from my years...
How to Stitch ‘Inside to Outside’ Corners
This is always tricky – but successfully done – shows you really know how to ‘boss the fabric’ around! The location of what you see is a...
Corner Clipping Rules
This is kinda basic, but something that I actually didn’t really understand for years…until it was made clear to me by Claire Shaeffer...
Simple Narrow Hem Trick
As I was making my dear daughter a new apron for Christmas – and the directions called for a ‘narrow hem’. Directions – if any more are...
Londa’s EZ Pleating w/o Marking
I’m creating a wedding gown for a very special young woman…and in the ‘designing’ progression, she decided she wanted the skirt ‘more...
NEW Creative Sweatshirt Jackets…to become ‘Vision’ Pattern
My vow is to always, always, always make my Talking Patterns™ the VERY best they can possibly be, so I always seem to have several of my...
SWEATSHIRT TRANSFORMATIONS: my ‘real ‘ Book is HERE!
Sweatshirt Transformations by Londa Rohlfing While I was away at the Pittsburgh Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, my book arrived! A few...
Ready-Made Inspiration
I LOVE To Shop – – not necessarily to buy – but to LEARN and to be INSPIRED….so I can COPY – though my copies hardly EVER are the same –...
Ric Rac Flower Trim
Ric Rac Flower Trim on Antique Christening Dress At a recent American Sewing Guild Meeting here in the Champaign-Urbana-Mahomet-Monticell...
Design – by CHANGING your mind!
I knew I would need a yarn for combining with it for couching… I rarely seem to make anything without couched embellishment… so I took a...
Swimsuit Cover-Up
The inspiration garment… At TJ Max – for $55! I don’t think so…even though time = $, I ENJOY the process, so here’s my ‘tale’ of my new...
PAINT your Fabric for a STUNNING Jacket!
One of the best treats to doing the sewing expos around the country is seeing – firsthand – the lovely garments (works of art) that gals...
Turning ’60’ Frock
Back view - hem is created with many angles. OK – I have to keep saying it in order to believe it, ‘get my mind around it’ that I’m...
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