LONSDALE IN TECNICOLOUR

A very exciting thing happened this summer. My girlfriend Anna has been bragging/raving about her family's fabric store for years. Unfortunately said fabric store was in Winnipeg. For those of you unfamiliar with arcane Canadian geography, let's just say that the 'peg is is halfway to nowhere, smack dab in the middle of the country. Not really the kind of place I can jet off to so I can check out...

A SUMMER UNIFORM

Hello friends. We Montrealers are in the middle of a heat wave. A hot and humid force field of sticky air and sweaty sheets. My cats barely move, I'm showering thrice a day and getting dressed in the morning seems like an exercise in futility. Better, truly, to just be naked all the time, but unfortunately that method garners a lot of unnecessary attention when one is not indoors. It's become an interesting...

PLAYSUIT PARTY

Hello chickadees. I took a little blog break following the epic Bombshell extravaganza. A blog break. Not a sewing break. The new Bernina and I have been getting to know each other and so far it's been a pretty sweet romance except for one issue. She gets really tangled threads on the bobbin side when I start my stitch line. It's extremely annoying. My old piece of crap 90's Singer never gave me the...

Giveaway Winner - With Bruno and Betty!

I know I was supposed to announce the giveaway winner yesterday but with the internet down at the hotel, I had to push it to today. But now it's time to find out who gets to win a great set of owl patches courtesy of Bruno and Betty!Drumroll please...Agh! So freakin' cute!And the winner is... Abbey Irwin (Of The Irwin Bazaar), whose favorite thing from Bruno and Betty is their Thread Spool Shirt.You...

Burda Style Magazine, July 2013...

I have a complicated relationship with Burda Style Magazine. I first discovered it at the newsstand of the Border's Bookstore I worked at, consequently, within days of getting my first sewing machine. I was enamoured! In my honeymoon phase I purchased some expensive silk habotai and a length of rich wool (how this fit into my saving money by sewing plan, I'll never be able to explain.) and set out...