This month Christine Haynes launched her new pattern line, which kicks off with two lovely patterns for summer weather: Derby Dress and Chelsea Dress. You can order them on her ...
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How to Keep Your Hat on Your Head
I wear hats everyday and there’s one thing I gotta be sure of – that my hat stays on my head. (For more about my hat collection, see this page) If your hat fits well, before you leave your home, give it a tug so it’s snug. A few months ago I hadn’t given my [...]
Mother’s Day Gifts – Sewing Books!
Last weekend my older sister showed my blog to my Mom on an iPad. A couple days later I spoke to my Mom on the phone (she lives on the East Coast and I live in California) and she said she liked the purple trench coat featured on this page of my blog. This is the [...]
Color Palettes
I’ve been thinking about palettes lately and what colors I like. So I decided to look at the some of the photos I’ve taken over the past few months to see see what palette emerges. It’s interesting to see what colors appear in each photo and which colors reappear in other photos. Take a look [...]
The Hand of Fabric
When I first began sewing as a young girl, I sewed mostly woven cotton fabric and made pretty basic clothes. So I never really had to be concerned about the “hand” of fabric. What is the “hand” of fabric? It’s how a fabric feels when you touch it – soft, stiff, flowing, crisp, and so on. [...]
Making a Lined Vest
I bought a home dec remnant a year or so ago at Britex Fabrics in San Francisco. I thought it would make a nice lined vest using Simplicity pattern (2862) by Sew Stylish. For the lining and the back, I got some maroon silk dupioni that matched some of the squares on the main fabric. [...]
C Sews StyleEye 17 Feb. 2012
Once again, jackets and coats caught my eye as they did last month. I’m not sure what type of fabric this black-and-white coat is made of but it’s certainly eye-catching! It seems rather fuzzy and has a unique pattern of swirls on it. I was walking down Sutter St. in San Francisco when I noticed [...]
Sewing a Patricia Underwood Vogue Hat
The first hat I made was for cold winters in upstate New York where I grew up. Using some fake sheepskin fabric, I made a hat with earflaps. I think I was inspired by some Russian hats I’d seen. I didn’t have a pattern. I just cut and sewed. I’m not sure what happened to [...]
C Sews StyleEye 23 Jan. 2012
I saw a lot of fun clothing combinations and nice details over the past month. These photos were snapped in San Francisco – usually in the Financial District or around Union Square during my lunch break or after work. What you’ll see below is: grey knit tights with a snowflake pattern worn with a knit [...]
The Red Velvet Hat
Not long after I graduated from college, I saw a photo of an absolutely stunning red hat in a magazine. I can’t recall what magazine it was but this shaped felt hat was gorgeous (and gorgeously expensive) with many folds of felt in front. I loved everything about that hat – the perfect shade of [...]
Sewing Project No. 2
After I made my sewing machine pocket organizer, I got to work on a chair organizer – a very handy item that drapes over the seat of the chair so you have pockets on both sides of the chair (from McCalls’s pattern M4274, now discontinued). But it’s made for a traditional chair with four legs. [...]
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