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New blog: Books and black wool 18 Jan 2011 | 12:15 pm
For some time I have been uncertain about what to do with this blog; basically I just don’t sew enough to maintain a sewing blog with regular updates. I should love to commit more to the blog, but sew...
Dreams of dresses 16 Jan 2011 | 08:21 am
Right now the sewing blogs are full of proposed sew-alongs and sewing goals for 2011. I wish my goal was to sew more in 2011. I want to learn new techniques, begin to sew underwear, sew amazing dresse...
UFO effort - recap 4 Jan 2011 | 12:11 pm
Happy New Year! I hope you will all have a good and productive new year. New Year means that time is out on my attempt to clear out in the UFO pile. My goal was to finish at least 10 projects, but I ...
UFO effort: No fraying! 13 Dec 2010 | 10:49 am
Friday I finally took courage and made the last two buttonholes on my cotton jacket from this summer. As you may remember I made one really ugly buttonhole and then put the jacket aside to be complete...
UFO effort: Pleats and patience 13 Dec 2010 | 04:37 am
The next item from my UFO list is a blouse I refashioned from a shirt last year. The pleated border around the neckline was an experiment and proved to be a lot more tricky than I anticipated. The ple...
UFO effort: Conquering knit fabric 9 Dec 2010 | 11:33 am
The last time I tried to clear out among my unfinished projects, I diagnosed that one of my problems was that I had not figured out how to finish edges nicely in knit. When I tried to use twin needles...
Update on my UFO elimination effort 8 Dec 2010 | 10:54 am
The blog has been quiet, but I have been quite busy with my UFOs. After the walking foot solved my topstitching problem, I realised that many of my old unfinished projects had been left off because of...
UFO effort #1 17 Oct 2010 | 10:25 am
Here is the first item on my list of unfinished projects: It is a simple cotton dress from the Danish sewing magazine, Kreative Kvinder. Like the dress I made last month, this fabric was actually fea...
An UFO effort 16 Oct 2010 | 08:13 am
It is no secret that I am not very good at getting garments finished. I claim of course that I am just working very slowly and that most things eventually get finished, but fact remains that I have qu...
Late summer dress 16 Sep 2010 | 09:42 am
It has been autumnal here for a while (I saw people in coats three weeks ago), but I had to make one last summer dress this year, even though it will probably not get any wear before next year. You se...
