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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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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
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...
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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