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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sewing’
Repairing a Blue Jeans Fly – Part 2: The Zombie Attack Version
Even if you don’t have a zipper, you can repair a fly so that you can still close it.
Replacing a zipper on blue jeans – Part 1
Given what it costs at the tailor’s to get a zipper replaced, it’s a skill that is worth knowing.
Saving the Least Worst – Blue Jeans, That Is
A good pair of blue jeans is worth patching and saving.
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 [...]
Relining a coat – Part 3
Relining an old coat, the finish.
Oh…Darn
How to repair a pull in a woven material.
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.
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 
