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The Layers Blog Tour: Day 5

• adult • blog tour • Denim • Discount • dress • Duster • fall • fashionista • hack • maxi • Pea Coat • Provence • sale • satara • self care • self care sewing • sew • Sewing for Women • Shirt Dress • sleeves • stitch my fix • store news • Vest • women • women's • Women's Pattern • woven

The Layers Blog Tour: Day 5

Happy WEEKEND!!!!!  I hope you are getting a break this weekend, or getting to do something fun with family and friends, or sewing a project that is just for fun!!! Speaking of projects just for fun - you have got to see today's Blog Tour Stop from Livia of Liviality!!!!  If you aren't already a massive fan of Livia's work, let's take a brief look back at some of her past phenomenal layered looks.  Do you remember this classy Fashionista she made for last Fall's Outerwear Blog Tour - swoon!!!! How about this STUNNING Coat Dress that she made with...

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Outerwear Blog Tour: Day Four

• costume • fashionista • Halloween • hood • hoodie • Long Board • Provence • sale • store news • unicorn

Outerwear Blog Tour: Day Four

Welcome back sewing peoples.... we've been taking a look at patterns for outerwear over the last few days, and we are just gonna keep on doing it.  Because I love these patterns, and becasue I know you want to see more!!! Before we jump into our THREE amazing blog tour participants for today, I wanted to give a shout out to the Long Board which is today's $3 Thursday Pattern.  This pattern started off as my answer to a fun a different pattern for boys that uses quilting cotton and other basic lightweight woven fabrics.... and it is so so...

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Outerwear Blog Tour: Day One

• blazer • blog tour • fall • fashionista • jacket • layering • new pattern • outerwear • stitch my fix • win • winter

Outerwear Blog Tour: Day One

Welcome to October's monthly blog tour.   This month we are taking a look at outerwear and layering pieces.  I started off my 'real' sewing life in college as a costume designer and shop assistant.  And when you are sewing costumes for a range of theatrical productions, you end up learning a lot about sewing outerwear.  I fell in love with the drama of a velvet cape, the polish of a perfectly fitted doublet, and the the intricacy of fifty hand made buttons for a period driving coat.  Lines that flatter, details that catch the eye, and fabrics that make you...

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