The Tool Kit – the things you need to begin sewing. I have them all, but I just love the seam ripper on this post. Recently I’m finding that Sarai’s blog is becoming one of the first I go to in my reader (when I have a spare five minutes to actually get to the reader). August is fabric month and I like this post (and useful comments) on weight and drape. It’s a blog chock full of useful advice for dressmakers – go! Soak it up!
How to make good buttonholes (video)
Tips on Sewing with knits by Meg, including the introduction of a new to me notion – woolly nylon thread. I must find this soon.
Sew Mama Sew Make It Wear It list of links – a handy summation of a whole month of dressmaking advice.
Alexander Henry Cotton Lawn (via Sew Liberated) Oh yes please!
I’ve had a break from the sewing room lately, partly due to family visits & general otherwise occupiedness, but also partly due to firing up the internet and making a home for a spot of writing. Since I realised this morning that Florence has outed me I can at least out myself – I’m practising writing, over here at practicewriting.co.uk. Come and have a look, but do remember it’s only practice.
Very useful links
Thank you. I am thinking on printing the wieht vs drape chart, so useful specially for me that I am just really learning how to work with different fabrics.
I think it will probably take me a lifetime of sewing to really understand fabric weight and drape. It gives me a new found respect for people who just get it. More sewing is the answer…
I already found you there! haha! Thanks for the handy dandy list.
So you did! Thank you for the kind words too.
I’m horribly behind on blog reading, but looking forward to seeing what you’ve been making lately.
Oh no dear Joanne! I hadn’t meant to ‘out’ you – I’d checked that you’d put a link to it on your blog and Twitter first…so sorry, hope you don’t mind.
You may like to know that your writing blog attracts a more mixed audience, Mr TC has also become a fan…and I’m absolutely sure that he doesn’t read your sewing blog.
Hope Fitz is having a better day.
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Oh I just meant that I hadn’t announced it in a big way, only in small ways, like sneaking the link onto the sidebar, that sort of thing. I don’t mind at all, since I find it difficult to go trumpeting around the place about my writing, though I realise that the idea of a few daily readers is enough to keep me at the exercise. I respond to expectation, even if not in a timely fashion. Glad Mr TC is reading – it must be nice for him to see something non-sewing related on the screen
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Hi Jo,
I like your new Practice writing blog and thanks for the sewing links. They are very useful for a sewing novice like me.
Mary
Hi, thanks for the links… very useful… I just found out you can also get the Alexander Henry cotton lawns in England now, at sewbox http://www.sewbox.co.uk though it’s not the full range… I just bought the como brights… love it!! now got to decide what to make!