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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
Sep 26, 20112 min read
Recent ‘Resource Center’ Additions
Ahhh – it’s about time to get started creating more stylish jackets from sweatshirts! I want to have a bunch of new samples for the Fall...
Londa
Sep 21, 20113 min read
Apron Stitching – Arghhh to Simplicity Directions!
First it starts off with notions of Piping” and 1/2″ double fold bias tape. More arghhhhh. I selected 3 coordinating little prints – one...
Londa
Sep 21, 20111 min read
Conventional Sewing – Bores me
OK – been working (too long) on the linen jacket version using my CHOSEN pattern … and, I must say – I am certainly convinced that my...
Londa
Sep 15, 20111 min read
RE-Cycled Jeans Purse
Pretty EZ! Sold for $25 each. Did add some Swarovski Crystals in orange here and there after I took these pictures though. Cut down the...
Londa
Aug 16, 20112 min read
‘Resource Center’ aka Fabric Stash Additions
Ahhh – it’s about time to get started creating more stylish jackets from sweatshirts! I want to have a bunch of new samples for the Fall...
Londa
Jul 8, 20116 min read
Baby Alyssa Ensemble
I’ve been so looking forward to sewing some little GIRL ruffles – and baby Alyssa,my sister’s granddaughter born May 23 is just the...
Londa
May 22, 20111 min read
First Annual Getaway Sewing Retreat Report
20 of us enjoyed all this and more May 12-15, 2011 at the Threads of Time Sewing and Retreat center in Danville, IL. Look at this huge,...
Londa
May 4, 20111 min read
Use for sweatshirt neck band!
Had lots of fun at this candy store of a quilt/machine shop! What a nice owner – Mary Forte, and her helpers/associates. If you’re ever...
Londa
Apr 8, 20112 min read
DKNY Vogue 1250 in 2.5 hours
I am so fortunate to be able to not only have been taught to sew – but to have the $ TO sew, and to have work that I LOVE to do – in...
Londa
Apr 5, 20111 min read
Personal Sewing Plans…FUN!
From the Teal jacquard knit – 2nd from left, purchased from Emma Seabrooke at Schaumburg… Vogue 1250 – a classic DKNY I imagine will be...
Londa
Jan 14, 20111 min read
My Feline Helper
I’m hard at creative work on my Mystery Project these days – and here is my ‘Guard’ Cat. This is Dopey – who is Bella’s big brother. He...
Londa
Dec 12, 20106 min read
New Year’s Eve Dress
OK – I get to sew a regular pattern again! Yea – I think?! My hubby and I do ballroom dancing (NOT DWTS type – but social) at a...
Londa
Dec 8, 20101 min read
TAG Bag for Grandson Gift
I didn’t use a pattern, but figured out what needed storage and size of things in hand, and with 1/5 yards of the Colt fabric(way gobs...
Londa
Dec 4, 20101 min read
Ahhh – Reupholstered an antique chair – FINALLY!
I found I NEEDED: this claw thing to get out old staples – the BIGGEST job of all! That’s what gave me a blister in my palm. Needed a...
Londa
Nov 28, 20103 min read
Apron Stitching Directions – My Suggestions
Apron Stitching – Arghhh to Simplicity Directions! First it starts off with notions of Piping” and 1/2″ double fold bias tape. More...
Londa
Oct 27, 20102 min read
NEW Creative Sweatshirt Jackets
Creatively Busy AGAIN…. some of my current KITS for jackets I offer at the sewing expos around the country include cashmere neck scarves...
Londa
Oct 14, 20101 min read
HUNT for reversible knits!
THEN – the box-pleated row ruffle was added on top – opposite side of the fabric ‘up’. The ‘ruffle’ was really box pleated row of trim –...
Londa
Sep 2, 20101 min read
Pattern Publication Process… Proceeding
Finally – have the cover for the new, revised Refined Too™ pattern! Hard at work today on all the images for the albums that go with it....
Londa
Aug 20, 20101 min read
NEW Refined Jacket #3
For Londa’s books, patterns, and supplies as described in her sewing escapades, please see Londa’s Creative Threads –...
Londa
Aug 13, 20101 min read
Creative Jacket Journey DVD – the Jackets
The blue jacket – Gloria named ‘Triumph’ because she ‘triumphed’ over her fear of cutting into the sweatshirt and her fabric… Created...
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