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 –...
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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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Londa
- Apr 5, 2013
- 1 min
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...
Londa
- Mar 26, 2013
- 1 min
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,...
Londa
- Jan 15, 2013
- 1 min
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
- Jan 7, 2013
- 2 min
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...
Londa
- Jan 5, 2013
- 3 min
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...
Londa
- Dec 8, 2012
- 4 min
How To Line a Vest
I’ve created 2 vests: 1 for my grandson, and a matching one for the groom for the upcoming wedding… and as I did so, it occurred to me...
Londa
- Dec 4, 2012
- 3 min
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...
Londa
- Dec 4, 2012
- 1 min
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...
Londa
- Dec 4, 2012
- 2 min
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...
Londa
- Dec 4, 2012
- 1 min
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
- Nov 21, 2012
- 3 min
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...
Londa
- Oct 23, 2012
- 2 min
LESSON: How to Make Costume Ears STICK OUT
Confession – sometimes, despite how long I lay (or is it ‘lie’ ? I can NOT seam to learn that grammatical rule) awake, and DREAM about...
Londa
- Aug 22, 2012
- 2 min
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...
Londa
- Aug 9, 2012
- 3 min
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...
Londa
- Jul 18, 2012
- 2 min
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 –...
Londa
- Jul 16, 2012
- 1 min
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...
Londa
- Jun 25, 2012
- 2 min
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...
Londa
- Jun 12, 2012
- 1 min
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...
Londa
- Jun 12, 2012
- 1 min
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...
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