Great things are often invented from having some type of major dilemma. My last venture was learning to design fabric on Spoonflower. I have almost 150 fabric designs in my Spoonflower shop and the best part is you can have them printed on any fabric.
To sell your fabric designs on Spoonflower […]
How to get all the work done when you have customers, pop ins, social media marketing and your phone is ringing off the hook.
Can you agree that after almost 20 years of experience a project should be a lot easier? I am about to repeat history and share one of the first dresses I made and some of the struggles I remembered while making it again almost 20 years later.
In 2001 my mother and I were supposed to […]
I can truly say I made all of this.
It’s the last day of #memademay2019 I’m wearing activewear I made on vacation. I designed the fabric on Spoonflower and used Connie Crawford’s B5215 for the fitted top and NancyZieman’s M7331 for the shorts.
I am so proud to say in the month of May I […]
I’m on a mission to use up all of my fabric stash this year! So far I have been successful. I had quite a bit of fabric left over from last years striped swimsuit project that needed to be used, but who needs two striped suits?
I’m on vacation this week but our local sewing group, the Dayton Garment Designers Meet Up on Facebook was having a cleaning challenge.
Once upon a time newly married couples would receive linens as gifts. Most were cherished and handled so properly that they look as if they were never even used. Today, children and grandchildren are never quite sure what to do with the family heirlooms they inherit and they will often times try to find them […]
Our local FB group, the Dayton Garment Designers is having a cleaning challenge to post before and after photos of our problem areas. Here is just one of mine.
Wait until you see how easy this is! Once that’s done, I will talk more about zero waste dress design and what inspired me.
Have you ever wished one of your garments was just a slightly different color or perhaps a shade darker? I may have the answer for you – tea staining. I suggest testing […]
What you should do and know.
