Category Archives: Construction

I thought this was my best bra but I was wrong – this is my best bra yet. Not that I have enough projects to finish but when Ohhh Lulu released its new collection of bras and undies, Bambi caught my attention. Up until this point, all of the bras I had sewn were of  Continue Reading »

  I take pride in pressing and I follow almost all of the rules. I press throughout the course of a project (instead of at the end) and I use the right temperature settings for the fabric (instead of burning the crap out of each seam). I also lift and press instead of glide the  Continue Reading »

Insert size 12 universal needle, skipped stitches. Insert size 14 universal needle, skipped stitches. Insert size 12 ballpoint needle, skipped stitches. Insert size 14 ballpoint needle, can you guess? Skipped stitches. I sat in front of my two sewing machines, my Juki DDL 5500 and my Singer Brilliance, and no needle, thread, tension setting, or  Continue Reading »

There are fashion bloggers, beauty bloggers, food bloggers, health and wellness bloggers – I could run the gamut – and then there are sewing bloggers. For all other types of bloggers, there are rules, guidelines, and standard operating procedures to good blogging, one example being that all pictures fill the entire width of the blog  Continue Reading »