Sewing with leather is fun.
Posts under ‘Making It’
Clutch Trial Run
One of my goals this year is to work with fabrics and materials that I don’t have any experience with. There are certain materials that give me the willies and over the years I have dipped my experiential toe into working with them. This year is to basically work with leather enough that it doesn’t [...]
Not a Chanel
You can use a pattern for all sorts of things – it all depends on the fabric.
Tailors Hams, Rolls and Other Things I Don’t Have
Aunt Toby has been a sewer for a long time. Looking back, since I was first set in front of an old reconditioned and electrified Singer treadle machine when I was 11 years old, it’s been 40-odd years. And sewing is one of those things where there are always new things to learn and [...]
Resolved Not To Have Resolutions
A final look at the year.
Ladies and Gentlemen – I think we have a coat.
Coat sewing series: The coat is done.
Making a Coat: Details Are What Make It
Coat sewing series: details that you can sew into the coat that make it look higher quality.
Building More Utility Into A Coat With The Lining
Coat sewing series: Designing features into the lining to make it more useful.
Get Back..Get Back..Get Back to Where You Once Belonged…
Coat sewing series: the guts of the thing.
Do NOT Fear the Coat
For sewers, making a coat is a huge deal, and it should be much more popular considering how much better a result you can get versus what you can buy for the same money. How to overcome your fear.
Kitchen Counter Economics is a community where we can share ideas on how to save money, live more sustainably, and gain control over the stuff of daily living for ourselves and our families in the current economic environment. This started as a series of diary postings at the 
