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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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American Sewing Guild Conference – Chicago 2008
What fun! As both a teacher (3 classes) and a vendor – 2 full booths – YEA! I had a great assistant in Darlene – and I was priveleged to...
As seen on Oprah… 10 Things a Woman Must Have in Her Wardrobe?
Caught Oprah the other day…not that I usually do. While I admire her, I feel she has become a ‘god’ to many in her own rite. Not mine,...


Child’s Jacket – Promised
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Cleaning Out & BUSY Creating pattern: Promised
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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...
Inspiration shared from daily Quiet Time
I love, love, love Taste & See devotional by John Piper. His thoughts are so full of ‘food’ and challenge my mind and soul. From today I...
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