Posts Tagged "liz sewing"

The Button Incident

Late in the day yesterday, I stopped in to check on Liz in her sewing room. She had stopped sewing, and was working on affixing similar buttons together in a set. She looked up and said “I needed some buttons. And then… something happened.” I had a good laugh, and thought the moment worthy of remembering.

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Liz’s Macaron Dress

Liz has been super hard at work on a Macaron dress for a long while now. She started it in July of 2011, but has recently spent a lot of time working on and finally finishing the dress. Though I’ve ceased to keep track of all her projects on here (ever since she got her own blog), this one warrants a special look. There’s a ton of intricate work involved – lots of lace, a lot of hand sewing, a lot of complicated things I don’t quite understand. The end result is pretty spectacular.

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Big Plans

I came home today to discover our front entryway was covered in several sheets of paper, all taped together. On closer inspection, I saw that it was a pattern that Liz had printed out. On seeing this, my first thought was a favorite quotation of mine. It’s by John Fante, and it’s the opening to his book Full of Life:…

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Liz’s Fabric and Pattern Giveaway

My wife Liz recently started up her own blog, focusing on sewing, knitting, baking, and all the projects she has going on in her spare time. She recently hit 10 followers, and to celebrate she’s running a giveaway. As a prize, she’s offering up about 3+ yards of a nice quality fabric, along with your choice of one of four…

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Liz’s Lady Grey Coat Featured: Colette Patterns and Sew, Mama, Sew!

In a recent segment on the Sew, Mama, Sew! website… they asked several people in the sewing industry to look back on 2010, and for their thoughts on what’s in store for 2011. Today’s post, by Sarai Mitnick of Colette Sewing Patterns, features Liz and her Lady Grey coat!. Each person interviewed is asked a series of questions (what were…

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When Worlds Collide

Liz got a package from Amazon yesterday, and it contained an assortment of sewing-related things. In addition to a few books so purchased, she also picked up some rather strange items: a large stack of comic book boards, as well as a 100 plastic comic book bags. Apparently, this is a storage technique that a lot of folks use for…

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Liz and the Lady Grey Coat: Finished Photos

Liz has been working on a sew-along project, where participants from all over agree to undertake a specific sewing project at the same time. This latest one was a larger undertaking, spanning about a month’s worth of work to create a coat off of the Lady Grey pattern. If you want to see the early stages of the coat, and…

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Liz and the Sew Along: Lady Grey Coat Pattern

For the past few days, Liz has been hard at work on a new winter coat. She’s participating in a sew-along, joining nearly 200 other readers of a blog entitled blogforbettersewing.com. Basically, everyone works on the same piece at the same time, with each person documenting their process and sharing tips, photos and suggestions with one another. Pretty neat concept….

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