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Thrift-Store Rescue: Patching a Lining

By on January 23, 2013 in Inspiration and Everything Else

I love checking out thrift-stores. I like the randomness of secondhand shopping – you never know what you might find! And, because I can sew, I can see the potential in garments that others might pass up, simply because they’re missing a button or other simple fix! A while back I found this olive military [...]

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Sewing the Lining into the Cambie Dress

By on May 30, 2012 in Tips

Today, I’ll demonstrate how to sew the lining into the Cambie Dress. This part of the sewing instructions makes a lot more sense when you’re actually doing it yourself. The next best thing? Watching someone else do it first! So I’ll do it and show you how it’s done, with plenty of pictures and explanations. [...]

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Aha! Here’s the fabric I was looking for…

By on April 25, 2012 in Fabrics

Guess what! I’ve found the perfect fabric for my dotted Minoru I dreamed of making, back in this post here. (And rambled on about here, too.) It’s a polyester crepe fabric, slightly heavier than a blouse weight. Strange choice, I know! The dots are perfect though – not too large, not too prominent. (I stuck [...]

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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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Minoru Sew-Along #14: Putting it All Together!

By on March 5, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Hello, sew-alongers! Thanks for your patience while waiting for these final sew-along posts. Hopefully many of you had a chance to catch up to this point! Today, we’ll start sewing our lining into the jackets, putting the whole thing together. There’s a lot to cover in this step, so stay with me as we go [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #13: Sewing The Lining

By on February 17, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Let’s sew the lining for our jackets today! This is going to seem very familiar, as we’ll construct the lining just like we did the jacket, minus the topstitching and hood zipper. So it’s going to be pretty easy to sew it all up! After this step is done, we’ll be very close to finishing [...]

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