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A couple of links I came across this week with embroidery used in fun and interesting ways on garments. As you probably know by now: I love hand-em...

As is its wont, life marches on through loss and laughter. Have you seen some of the Zsálya tops popping up for Perfect Pattern Parcel #6? They are...

The Giselle dress pattern is coming up soon for Frocktober at The Monthly Stitch. In honor of the occasion, I want to show you how to make it with ...

After all the very businesslike (and sparse) posts on this here blog, we're back to sewing, and folklore! The Zsálya is one of the patterns feature...

It's been a while since I've posted photos of your makes - which is inexcusable! Let's start with a happy thought: Emily in Bali, wearing a lovely ...

It's my turn to post a tutorial by another participating designer from Sewing Indie Month - and I'm pleased to present Yuki, the designer of Waffle...

The inimitable Oonaballoona made a stunning Giselle dress, just look:     I was amazingly fortunate to have Oona test the Giselle pattern, her fee...

As part of Sewing Indie Month, we have created tutorials that we post on each others blogs. My partner to post for is Sylvie of Soma Patterns, and ...

The best part of publishing sewing patterns is seeing what others make with them. Let's take a look at some Zsálya tops and dresses from creative a...

I had the good fortune to have some amazing pattern testers try out the Midtown Collection's sewing patterns. I can't thank them enough - their fee...

With this series, which includes the Snowdrop and the Morning Bouquet patterns, I wanted to try something I'd heard about that would make transferr...

Several of you recently posted lovely examples of what you made with the Róza pattern and some of my hot-iron transfer embroidery patterns, and I l...