As part of my Word of the Year choice for 2025 - Design - I decided to take a class that would help me with my pattern design skills! I sig...

  Make It Yours with Mimi G / Mimi G. Ford NY: Abrams, c2023. 176 p. This sewing book by the very busy and successful Mimi G is one more thi...

Building the Pattern / Laura Huhta & Saara Huhta London: Quadrille, c2021. 208 p. I read the first book by this sisterly duo when it cam...

  Sewing Your Perfect Capsule Wardrobe / Arianna Cadwallader & Cathy McKinnon London: Kyle Books, c2017. 175 p. I recently got this book...

I tackled another project for the Liesl & Co Advisor's Circle last month -- you can read the full blog post at the Oliver & S b...

I have made quite a few Terrace Dresses in the past, and it's one of my favourite easy projects. I decided that it was time to shorten ...

Make It Your Own: Personalizing Patterns for Creative Design / Lori Bottom & Ronda Chaney Radnor, PA: Chilton Books, c1994 167 p. I...

Gertie's Ultimate Dress Book / Gretchen Hirsch NY: Abrams, c2016. 236 p. Another mix-n-match sewing book! These were really popu...

Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time / Tanya Whelan NY: Potter, c2015. 208 p. How could I not buy this book? The title is kind of my pers...

This is a love-hate kind of dress. Love because I adore the fit and the mix of two patterns which turned out just as I'd imagine...

I finished out my run in the PR Sewing Bee this year at Round 3 -- with this make. I'm not in the final round, in which the challenge is...