My Spring project for Fabricville has arrived! I was excited about this one -- this "vintage" 90s McCalls 8501 was so appealing, ...

  Vogue & Butterick's Designer Sewing Techniques NY: Simon & Schuster, c1994. 126 p. I'm back from my August break -- and on...

Way back in the spring, PatternReview was running its Sewing Bee challenge . I made it to Round 2 on the strength of my first project, a Kni...

Sewing the New Classics: Clothes With Easy Style / Carol Parks NY: Sterling, c1995. 152 p.   Since I was thinking so much about capsule ward...

Now here's a dress that has been waiting its turn! I first planned to make this dress in thrifted fabric from a thrifted pattern way bac...

Another dress complete in my blue & yellow sewing plan! This one was a bit of an outlier -- I found this fabric in my stash after makin...

Remember those vests I was talking about recently? Well, I finished one! It was a very quick and simple one, but I made a few adjustments t...

I ran across a discussion of the revival of 90s style on PatternReview lately. Apparently the 90s are back! I don't remember 90s style ...

Champagne Supernovas / Maureen Callahan Touchstone, c2004. 288 p. Another look at a decade in fashion, this time the 90s, with a focus o...

This week I picked up some lovely linen on sale, and I immediately prepped it so that I could cut out McCalls 7600, a vest pattern from 1...