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My Minoru Jacket: Pretty in Pink

By on March 19, 2012 in Finished Sewing Projects, Projects, Sew-Alongs

Happy Monday, everyone! We were lucky to have a sunny day last week, so I ran outside to take some photos of my finished Minoru Jacket. You already know all about the making of this jacket, from start to finish, so I won’t talk too much today and let the photos speak for themselves. Speaking [...]

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Finished Sewing a Minoru Jacket? Let’s See It!

By on March 15, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Have you finished your Minoru Jacket? Just like we did for the Lonsdale Sew-Along last summer, let’s round up all of your finished Minoru Jackets and share them with each other! Post a link in the comments of this post so we can check out your finished project! You can link to your blog, your [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #18: Hemming, and Then We’re Done!

By on March 14, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Thirty-five blog posts and several hundred comments later, we’re finishing up the Minoru Sew-Along! Today’s the last post of sewing instructions. We’ll follow with a series of posts showing off your finished jackets, and I’ll post some photos of my finished jacket too! Today we’ll hem the jacket to finish it off. After the sewing [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #17: The Waistline

By on March 13, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Today we’ll give our loose, baggy jackets a sleek, flattering silhouette! We’ll sew a casing for the elastic waistline, insert the elastic, and pull it tight until we’re happy with the fit. The jacket is nearly complete at this point, so it’s easy to fit the elastic and know how it will feel in the [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #16: Stitching in the Ditch

By on March 9, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Today we’ll do a quick sewing step: stitch in the ditch of our collar and neckline seam. I remember mentioning stitch-in-the-ditch a while back and it was a new term to many of you! Have you heard the term ‘stitch in the ditch’ before? It’s not that common in sewing patterns, which tend to favor [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #15: An Alternative to Slipstitching Cuffs

By on March 6, 2012 in Sew-Alongs, Tips

Yesterday, we sewed the lining into our jackets. Today we’ll finish it up by sewing the lining to the cuffs. The pattern instructions call for slipstitching, but we can even do that part by machine with a little trick. I’ll show you how to sew the lining into our jacket cuffs completely by machine! If [...]

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