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While It Seems This Place Has Been Abandoned…

26 November 2011 in Updates

I assure you it has not!

Things have been a bit quiet around here lately. I promise that’s all about to change as new postings are in the works. Really. As in I might actually share some sewing news. I swear.

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Vacay is Over – Now for the Fun

26 August 2011

After five weeks in the US where I collected interfacing and sewing notions, I am back in the ‘Jing, ready to get started on my sewing adventures. Which is a good idea, because quite frankly, with air pollution at frightening levels, it’s better to stay indoors and play! Upcoming in September – a fabric shopping [...]

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On Being Micro-Trendy

2 July 2011
sewing basket cake

I’ve never been a trendy person, although there have been times when I have blindly followed trends in the past. Now I have to ask myself – I’m a youngish knitter and sewist. Am I following a trend? Have I been influenced to take up sewing again because of the Internet and the resurgence of [...]

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It’s a Wrap – Take Two

1 July 2011
wrap skirt

Pattern: Breezy Easy Wrap Skirt from Diane Rupp’s Sew Everything Workshop Fabric: A remnant of some kind of I dunno what I bought at the Muxiyuan Fabric Market for 15RMB ($2.32). Whatever this fabric is, it is very slippery, which is probably why it wasn’t a good choice for my very first wearable garment. Regardless, [...]

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It’s a Wrap on My First Wearable Garment

27 June 2011

I just finished my first wearable garment – a wrap skirt. My husband says he’s impressed. I suspect he doubted me when I said I was going to sew my own wardrobe. If you don’t look too closely at the skirt it looks pretty darn good. Pics soon! And more posts. I hope.

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My Very First Burda Style

1 June 2011
Burda Style

It doesn’t take much for me to jump up and down with excitement these days – a fresh box of Grape Nuts cereal at my local import supermarket, cheap knitting needles from an old lady on the street, an English-language bookstore brimming with craft titles… Today I received a “kuai di,” or courier delivery, from [...]

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Too Bad for the Neighbors – Curtain Project

28 May 2011
Bathroom curtain

I have officially completed my first sewing project (there are other unfinished projects I do not want to talk about.) Thank god no one can see the stitches up close, because, whew, are they terrible! How do you learn to sew straight? Is it just practice? I desperately need one of those magnetic seam guides, [...]

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A Sewist is Born – Or Why the New Blog

26 May 2011
Mom-made costume

My mom is an excellent seamstress and although she sewed countless Halloween costumes and all kinds of clothing items for me, I never bothered to learn the craft from her. Not that I didn’t absorb somethings from her; I think the reason I believe I can turn a piece of cloth into a reasonably well-fitting [...]

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