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Lazy Susan Makes TWO Lazy Girl Designs Bags…For HERSELF
Lazy Susan Makes Two Lazy Girl Designs Bags…For HERSELF! Yes! You read that right/ I made TWO new purses for MYSELF! I sew garments almost exclusively for myself. But purses? There is always a birthday, a holiday, a getwell gift or a “just because” gift to make. I keep fabrics in colors and motifs for…
Mary Sees and Sews Lutterloh for the First Time!
Mary Menz is one of my dearest friends. When we lived in Modesto and even after my Beloved and I moved to Fresno , California she and I used to plan a New Year’s Eve dinner,cook all day and then serve two other couples. We are both avid sewists and feminists and activists. We have…
Lazy Susan Makes Some Lazy Girl Bags!
A long, long time ago,when I was living in my beach house I received a call from my beautiful daughter, MissMeliss. ” Mom! This is Melissa, I need you to sew me something.” What she wanted was a new tote bag to carry her pink MacBook in when she attended a juried writers workshop in…
Susan Sews a Sexy Striped Shirt
Black and White and Striped All Over Do you have a period in your life when sewing was an adventure? Or when you had more time? Or were able to sew quickly and all night long if need be? My friend, Barbara in Nice ( that France bunky) were talking about how fabric stores actually …
A Purple Batik Blouse
Sew, I had decided to enter the Pattern Review Sewing Bee challenge. The challenge was to make a fitted blouse, and to also use creative touches to make it our own. This contest looked like great fun, and I was ready. This challenge was intense and was to be completed by Monday September 7th, it…
Eureka! Pants That Fit…I Made them!
“Sewing pants is easy…” “…However, developing pants with a flattering and comfortable fit has challenged women for as long as women have been wearing pants…” SarahVeblen, fit expert and designer. This is the re-cap of my year-long quest for perfectly fitting pants. It all depends on getting a properly fitted crotch curve that allows your…
A Beach Cover Up, A Polka Dot Vespa, and My First Friend
Back in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, where I grew up lived my first friend ever, her name Theresa Pennetti Klco. We were blood sisters, and so were our daughters. So were our mothers.We never went to the same school. But we lived across the street from each other through fourth grade.Our family moved away to…
Where Has Susan Been in the Past Year?
Since just around this time in 2014, the planets aligned and my life changed, Drastically. Wonderfully. And Completely. Here is how it started. In the Spring I decided that enough was enough, I was bone-tired of selling houses. I decided to apply for Social Security and turn my company over to my one and only…
Susan Sets Sail in a Nautical Border Print
the buttons are not tight, they are gaping because of my arm position To me, sailboats are East Coast, and surfboards are West Coast.so when I was up in Vancouver, B.C. last summer and I saw this fabric, I saw surfboards. Well look at the bottom border, on a quick glance they look like surfboards,…
Grrrr, Wild Animal in a Blouse in La Paz
Its mid May 2014. I am on a mission: To create a comfortable, stylish and functional summer wardrobe that will serve for business and casual wear. Yesterday I competed blouse number five in my bevy of blouses. This is another version of the Lekala princess seamed button up blouse pattern number 5114. This is a…
