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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 plan:
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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...
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...
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