Sewing on the Edge with Barbara Emodi

No, I haven't given up. In fact I have been busy investing in white fabric (and to my mind half of sewing at least is fabric selection/c...

A while back I posted links to what seemed to me to be the three most popular approaches to collar-on-a-stand making. I now have tried all t...

I realize the title of this morning's post "a little discipline" may have sounded like a comment on HP. Didn't mean tha...

Almost finished the HP boxy shirt and my machine sort of died, several issues, one must be a loose wire in the foot control - I am not going...

I stayed up late last night and installed a collar and band with the option three method - with great success, more on that later. What I...

I know a sewing machine guy who used to service large machines in factories.  He told me that many thing we see in RTW are hard to replic...

Right now I am working on Hot Patterns' Boxy Blouse. Yes, I know I announced recently that I don't look good in things without ...

 O.K. It's a white shirt right? Actually in my research to find this riveting image I found out that Mr. Jones has insured his c...

Thanks to Lisa for putting me in touch with this article on White shirts. The slide show is here too. I am all revved up. I mean eve...

Last night I went to the local sewing guild meeting, I have rejoined in anticipation of my move to part-time work in the Spring, and had my...

I finished Simplicity 2310  over the weekend and am going to wear it to a sewing guild meeting tonight and ask someone to take a picture, ...

Even here at Santa's workshop our minds wander to other topics. Like the shirts we are going to be making in the New Year with this l...

I have been away for a week now, visiting my son in DC, visiting my husband who is working in Tennessee, and doing my part to help out th...

Fellow sewer Lisa has put together a great Flicker tutorial on making a collar with a stand. As she doesn't blog but is sewing along ...

First here is a shot of my first shirt finished except for the buttonholes. Hope to get those and a picture on me taken this week. I reall...

Thank you to all of you who left sympathetic comments about my collar stand. The interesting thing about this focus on white shirts only ...

I am very pleased with the progress of my first shirt blouse after a husband-going-away-sick-dog-70-papers -to-mark few weeks.  The fit ...