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January 13-14 saw the Curvy Sewing Collective Community celebrating how awesome we all are with “A Very Curvy Sewing Celebration”. Trips to or meet ups at fabric stores seemed to be a popular way to celebrate; Western Australians held a potluck lunch...

We’re back! Happy New Year to you all, we hope you are well rested and looking forward to lots of making in 2017. This week we shared our favourite pattern releases in December. There are also loads of lovely makes from your favourite bloggers, new sewing...

Almost an Easter dress I made another dress. If we need an excuse, let’s call it an Easter dress, though it wasn’t done in time for Easter, nor was it dress weather. Butterick 5317 The pattern is Butterick 5317, which is reminiscent in...

Fitting details ahead! Including my hand drawn illustration of pattern adjustments. I have written before that fitting is the final frontier for many a seamstress/sewist/stitcher (take your choice). I am seriously considering doing a post this fall with...

IN OUR VIEW, one reason Ontario had to come up with its draconian laws against “racing” on our highways (by going more than 50 km/h above a posted speed limit) is that our current speed laws make no sense and are universally disobeyed. After all, if...