To be completely honest, I don't really remember when the Olya Shirt by Paper Theory appeared on my sewing "radar". It's not a pattern that appears in any of the menswear feeds that I'm exposed to. I've managed to find ONE example on Instagram where it's worn by a guy. Maybe my experience can change [...]
I love working with wool! All the wool I've worked with to date has been woven, so boiled wool is a new experience. It's actually a dense knit, and unlike a woven it doesn't ravel. Not a shred! Still, I pre-treat it as I would for any wool. My TNT method is the London Shrink. [...]
Oh my, it's been SO LONG since I've blogged, my apologies. It's hard to know where to start. In between helping friends install an IKEA kitchen (350 miles away!), work, and a small amount of sailing; I did manage to get three shirts made. They're always satisfying to make, and two of them filled some [...]
I just don't make enough pants to ever get comfortable with the zipper. So I crawl through the process. Somehow it all comes together, but it remains a mystery in the end. The Jedediah pattern has a perfectly fine zipper fly, but for this project I really have my heart set on a French fly. [...]
We're all craving some warmer weather here in northern New England. 40 degrees would be heavenly! How twisted is that??? So to keep myself from going completely crazy I've been working on some summer clothes. My latest is this cotton shirt. The "short over long" look, done up in a very lightweight cotton border [...]
I'm not sure what on earth made me think I could just cut this shirt out and it would fit. I really deserve a good "dope slap" for this one, especially after participating in Peter's MPB shirt sew-along last year. Hopefully you can look past the crazy fabric. This was a $2 twin sheet at [...]
I'll confess up front that I don't own very many books on sewing.The Bishop Method of Clothing Construction has been a valuable friend, although I tremble that the ghost of Edna Bishop may suddenly appear and rap my knuckles with a french curve if I sew a seam in the wrong direction. Participating in [...]
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