UPDATE: Amazing! So many people volunteered and I have enough testers now, so I have closed the sign-up form. For those of you that filled out a form, I will send a confirmation email in a few days after I’ve gone through all the forms. THANK YOU!! Hello, my friends! Many months ago, a whole bunch of you tested patterns for my next sewing book, and it was wonderful. The plan was to release the book in Spring of 2021. Then the pandemic happened. We decided to postpone the photoshoot, …
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Nuanced Not Faded
Hello, my friends! I received this luscious bouquet from a dear friend a couple of weeks ago, on my birthday. We did a social-distanced hand-off of the flowers, which was quite funny. As I gazed at these blooms the phrase that came to mind was, "faded beauty." It's what everyone says, right? The faded beauty of dying roses. Although these roses are no longer in the full blush of its blossoming floral youth, I don't think their beauty has faded at all. If anything, it's deepened and is more …
Teen Sewing Bonanza
Hello, my friends! How are you doing? Are you still sheltering in place? Or has your area reopened and have you cautiously stepped out into the wild world? K and I are still in full self-quarantine mode and we're heading into day 80. M -- the most extroverted of us all in desperate need of contact with other humans -- has been venturing out a little more while remaining diligent about safety. At this point of lengthy cocooning, I'm not sure if I'm capable of having normal (i.e. coherent) …
Kid-friendly masks
Hello, hello! You saw this coming, right? If you've got a freshly published animal-themed book, it stands to reason that animal-themed kid masks would be the next logical step. Sweet, don't you think? I even created templates and a tutorial! I know there are a zillion mask patterns out there and the main reason I designed these masks this way was to allow for ease of adding the cute details. As far as I'm concerned, we all could use some cuteness right now. There are two sizes: …
Greetings from Japan!
Hello, hello! K and I have spent a glorious time in Japan for the last 11 days, and we're having a hard time leaving. I have so many thoughts and emotions right now and though I'm unable to organize them in a coherent way at the moment, I wanted to pop in to say hello. I also wanted to talk about Ogden camis. For this trip, I somehow made four Ogden Camis by True Bias Patterns in two days before embarking on the plane to Narita. I originally purchased the PDF pattern and then printed it …