Date Night, Art w/ a Regular Sewing Machine
With a little practice and some patience anyone can apply their very own art to clothing using a regular sewing machine. I hope you find my three different techniques helpful. Just a heads up! Doing [...]
The Quickie One Hour Dress
Would you believe I made this simple dress in less than an hour and with only two yards of fabric? This design was adapted from the simplicity of the old children's pillow case dress pattern. [...]
2022 More Than a Dressmakers Review
Meeting the artist Bing Davis was one of the biggest highlights just after the new year although the blessings rained down on us the entire year. I graduated from the Kettering Leadership Academy learning a [...]
Quick Sew Handmade Ornaments
Do you need an easy handmade gift for the holidays? After watching a couple hours of youtube, I combined a couple of techniques and came up with something that only takes 10-20 minutes to make [...]
CatWoman Claws Her Way To The Top
Throw out your fears with these tips for sewing tricky fabrics like latex, wet look and other rubber coated knits. I found the purrrrrfect fabric in NYC's garment district, a wet look knit. The outside is [...]
Celebrating Abuela With Free Motion Embroidery
My grandma was one of my favorite people on the planet. I wanted to celebrate the gift she passed down to me and my mother - the wonderful love of sewing. In 2019 [...]
The Project With Everything!
This project has everything; replicating, inspiration, upcycling and fandom! The B52's have the most amazing stage clothes, period. When I saw Cindy Wilson bouncing around on stage in a Sunday Morning show story clip I [...]
“My One Yard Thing” 2022 Collection
Since the term One Yard Wonders has long been taken I'm calling my series of one yard garments My One Yard Thing! You might know that it is very, very difficult to make adult clothing [...]
Easy 4 Step Hat Patch Tutorial
When a client mailed me his baseball cap from California it dawned on me that not everyone knows how to sew patches on baseball caps. With his hat there was a thank you note saying [...]
Wedding Dress Leaves More Questions Than Answers
I said to myself, "I'm not going to do every little project!" And then Fairy Godmother Creations offered our entire meet up free wedding dresses to ReFabricate. Well, I definitely got on that train (lol, get it?) [...]
Letting Myself Van Glow
Dresses, dresses, dresses! After seeing the Columbus Museum of Art exhibit, Through Vincent’s Eyes, I've decided no matter what people think to keep doing what I love. Vincent Van Gogh only painted for one decade [...]
Year of Awareness, 2021 Designers Review
Let’s face it, the year of less was a total joke. I adopted the mantra from a book where the author tried not shopping for one year. Her addiction to shopping changed into other addictions [...]