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My Blog here is a work in progress...having just brought over all 618 of my posts from my 'Old Blog' which I began in 2005! Please excuse the duplications for a spell while I go through them all.
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Londa
Nov 13, 20082 min read
Houston Quilt Show Ramblins’
FINALLY back from the Houston where my friend, Glenda and I manned booths at both Quilt Market (wholesale) & Festival (retail)!!! On the...
Londa
Oct 15, 20081 min read
New Jacket completed for Houston
Back from the Original Sewing & QuiltingExpo in St.Charles, IL. Terri from Indianapolis was great help, and we had a blast. I felt the...
Londa
Oct 6, 20081 min read
Novi Show Report – American Sewing Expo
Back and recovered from Novi Show – American Sewing Expo in Novi, Michigan – had a GREAT time and an amazing helper in Cyndi! Here’s a...
Londa
Sep 17, 20081 min read
New Crop of Jackets ‘Birthed’
I don’t know why – but a couple weeks before a show- I lay awake atnight creating the design for new jackets. Sew….here’s the latest...
Londa
Sep 5, 20081 min read
Londa ‘published’ in magazine and new book
Exciting Days – my work has recently been published! Sweatshirts with a Twist is a book edited by the editor of Clotilde’s Sew Savvy...
Londa
Aug 16, 20081 min read
USA Pride Jacket
For Londa’s books, patterns, and supplies as described in her sewing escapades, please see Londa’s Creative Threads –...
Londa
Jul 29, 20081 min read
Newest Fabrics to Join my Stash
Am I stuck in a black/cream, black/white mode or what???? Perhaps it is because of all the positive comments I get on the jacket you see...
Londa
Jul 29, 20082 min read
Thank You Jacket for a Friend
Well – it goes in the mail today! I hope she’ll absolutely LOVE it and feel it was worth the wait! Karen selected one of my kits while I...
Londa
May 27, 20081 min read
Child’s Jacket – Promised
Is this just too cute, or what?? What fun I had with this one! I actually started with an adult XL sweatshirt – and used it AS FABRIC. I...
Londa
May 15, 20081 min read
Cleaning Out & BUSY Creating pattern: Promised
These days find me busy busy cleaning out the ENTIRE house! I started at the top and am to the basement. Watch my londas-sewing.com...
Londa
May 15, 20082 min read
Creative Sweatshirt Jacket Question & Answer
Ann from Kansas writes: Hi Londa, I have your Ultimate Jacket Collection CD. I want to make some for my mother who is 80 yrs. old, about...
Londa
Feb 12, 20081 min read
Dyeing Ribbon & Jacket Kits
I did the ‘rough’ part – over a weekend, and you wouldn’t have believed the mess! Nearly drove my hubby crazy – as this all occurs in the...
Londa
Jan 30, 20082 min read
Jacket/ How-to’s in Sew Savvy Magazine
Yea – it’s out! My first magazine article since Creative Needle back in the early 90’s. Sew Savvy – March issue that just hit the stands....
Londa
Jan 20, 20081 min read
Refined & Pathways pattern development
I saw a jacket with eensy strips of bias irridescent silk doupioni and so I’m playing with that – which you can’t see very well on this...
Londa
Jan 17, 20081 min read
Brass Striped Unity Jacket
A ‘stuffed sausage’ collar covered with the bias cut striped fabric completed this jacket. I’m still ‘noodling’ the closures – and onto a...
Londa
Jan 14, 20082 min read
Progress report on new patterns
Well – I’m hard at work designing – stitching – and then typing. My hubby snapped a pic of me at my old ironing board where I have my...
Londa
Jan 10, 20082 min read
ReCycle Jacket with Sweat, Jeans, Tie
The Second jacket for my Unity pattern – this one to replace a favorite of mine (and apparently someone else’s – as it was swiped right...
Londa
Jan 5, 20081 min read
ReCycle Sewing: Sweatshirt + Sweater
UNITY The challenge here is that the sweatshirt is a 2XL. My duct tape double is not a 2XL – more like a 10/12. So – don’t expect it to...
Londa
Dec 31, 20072 min read
Jacket Pattern Design Process
It occurred to me while in the mess you see to the left, that it might be interesting to ‘sewing crazy ladies’ like myself, to follow...
Londa
Sep 13, 20071 min read
‘WORTHY’ – my first Sweatshirt Jacket Pattern released
YEA!!!!! My first actual ‘pattern’ for a Creative Sweatshirt Jacket is now available. I’m busy tonight emailing it out to everyone who...
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