WELTED. POCKETS.

I swear, nothing in the sewing universe gives me conniptions the way that welted pockets do. I have just spent over two hours on a pair of welted pockets. On a glorified mock-up. (I've gotten into trouble in the past skipping the pockets in the mock-up. Plus, I apparently really, really need a ton more practice with welted pockets ( Read more... )

Hey, everyone - remind me of this next holiday season: Maybe I have a hard time being in a good holiday spirit because I'm hearing the wrong music from Nov. 1 onwards. Forget this terrible mall mix of a thousand different covers of "Santa Baby"! For the past week I have been listening to a lot of Pandora's "Peaceful Holidays" station, and it makes ( Read more... )

The backstory is long (and I forget most of it) but I've started wondering about something, and I don't have the knowledge base myself to answer it ( Read more... )