Archive for the 'Sewing' Category

2008 Wardrobe Plan!

I am still working on my Personal Style/Sewing badge this month at Project Wonder Woman, and now I have the exact project I would like to complete in order to earn it. I have already done a preliminary closet purge, but I will do another this week. In the meanwhile, I have entered the Pattern [...]

1/3/08 Log: Project Wonder Woman January Activities

My sleep schedule is STILL messed up from my 2 weeks off from work. I woke up at 7:45 am instead of 6:00 am, and only had time to do a 30 minute Yourself Fitness Flexibility session (which I shall count as today’s yoga) before work. We have a cold front moving through the area [...]

B4945: Retro 50′s Style Apron

I finished up my Butterick B4945 sushi-print retro apron tonight and posted my review of the pattern up at PatternReview.com. I’m very happy with the way it turned out and plan to make some more in other fun prints to give away as Xmas presents this year. Another PR member posted a link to a [...]

Free Sewing Patterns & Resources

Since I’ve gotten back into sewing, I’ve found some great free sources for sewing patterns on the web that you might want to check out. If you’ve been sewing for a while, you know that a gal can never have too many patterns. If you are a sewing newbie but have been thinking about giving [...]

Halloween Just Took Care Of Itself

I was somewhat appalled yet oddly amused to learn that one of the characters in the low-rent ping pong comedy Balls of Fury is named Maggie Wong. Amazingly enough, this may solve my Halloween costume dilemma for this year. I had been worried about how I could scrounge up a costume without buying any fabric, [...]

Redefining “Geek”

A while back I bought a Medium men’s t-shirt from Jinx.com that had the word "G E E K" emblazoned across the chest in faux M*A*S*H font.  As I had already left my high school years behind me long ago, I had no fears of being ostracized for announcing my social affiliation this way.  However, [...]

Wardrobe Refashion 6-Month Pledge

I, Maggie Wang, pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of “new” manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months. I pledge that i shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I [...]

Refashionista Central

I ran across a group blog called Wardrobe Refashion today while searching for a site I recalled reading about in the latest ReadyMade magazine that features projects re-made from IKEA items. I never did find the IKEA-related site I wanted, but I was pretty thrilled to locate a multi-user blog devoted to refashioning, recycling, and [...]