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Inspirating 2….er….um…..that’s Inspiration
Yeah, well, I’m not the best speller (referenced to yesterday’s post titled: Inspirating, which has now been corrected!!!) I think that was my subconscious saying “Inspiration” and “Inspiring” at the...
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Two hot fall trends
Two trends I’m noticing out there as we’re coming around the corner to fall, and they have all sorts of possibilities. One thing about being a sewists is that when you catch a trend like this on the...
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Adele and her Stella!
I think you all know I love Adele. First she refuses to go on a diet. She is who she is (and what an icon – finally!) But here she is in her Stella McCartney dress and this dress is a lot of fun, so...
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Snowy Morning
It’s really started to snow here and it’s really pretty. So I was messing around over on the TED (which stands for Technology Entertainment Design) talks and saw this fabulous TED talk by Johanna...
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Carolyn from The Diary of A Sewing Fanatic
If you were on the teleseminar the other night you heard me extol the virtues of Carolyn on The Diary of A Sewing Fanatic. She really is marvelous if you haven’t been over there, and what she does...
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Practice
I read a morning roundup of RSS feeds which have a lot of interesting ideas. But the other morning, I ran across something that reminded me again how important some basics are. One is practice. This...
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Rituals
Rituals are a basic need with humans just as much as air, food, shelter and clothing. They keep us sane when things go awry (or even worse, when the whole Earth falls out from under us). They work...
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Matching Prints
This is one of those things that is in the eye of the beholder, but even then there are some rules. One of the best ways to study this is to look at the designers. Here is a Koos from Vogue 1377 and...
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Ticklin’ the Muse
Working creatively is not like working in any other profession. There are starts and stops to all forms of creative working. It’s important to know that and it’s important to know some guidelines for...
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Inspiration
So where do you get your inspiration? I get mine usually from my RSS feed or just perusing around the net. But one thing is for sure, when someone says “classic” I’m all over it in nothing flat....
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When Does Sewing Become More Than Just Techniques
Lots of times in my classes and on boards and profiles around the net, I see that up-and-coming sewists want to learn this or that technique, with their thinking that if they know enough of them then...
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Cosplay – redeux
Not sure why but this old post had a bug in it someplace, so here’s the same blog (unfortunately without the comments) and hopefully without the bug! This is a new – or relatively new – movement or...
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Golden Globes 2016 – Teachable Moments
I asked you all to start out the Red Carpet season with a different outlook than what you normally see or hear about in the reviews the next day. So let’s look at some of the teachable (learnable?)...
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Yves St. Laurent – a Master
I grew up in fashion during the 50’s and 60’s. It was a dramatic time of change, but the fashions were fabulous and the experimentation going on was really interesting. What new ways of darting and...
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Pantone’s Colors for Fall 2016
There’s always a new palette each year, and even though Anna Wintour says that “Fashion is Dead” or “There is No Fashion” there will always be trends, no matter what, and Pantone really does go through...
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And Now For Something Fun……
….and inspiring and empowering and back to what I love. Now this started out very sad and ended very, well and fun, so the fun applies to the end, not the beginning! Recently – like a couple of weeks...
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Rituals are a basic need with humans just as much as air, food, shelter and clothing. They keep us sane when things go awry (or even worse, when the whole Earth falls out from under us). They work...
View ArticleMatching Prints
This is one of those things that is in the eye of the beholder, but even then there are some rules. One of the best ways to study this is to look at the designers. Here is a Koos from Vogue 1377 and...
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Working creatively is not like working in any other profession. There are starts and stops to all forms of creative working. It’s important to know that and it’s important to know some guidelines for...
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So where do you get your inspiration? I get mine usually from my RSS feed or just perusing around the net. But one thing is for sure, when someone says “classic” I’m all over it in nothing flat....
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