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A Purple Batik Blouse
Sew, I had decided to enter the Pattern Review Sewing Bee challenge. The challenge was to make a fitted blouse, and to also use creative touches to make it our own. This contest looked like great fun, and I was ready. This challenge was intense and was to be completed by Monday September 7th, it…
Eureka! Pants That Fit…I Made them!
“Sewing pants is easy…” “…However, developing pants with a flattering and comfortable fit has challenged women for as long as women have been wearing pants…” SarahVeblen, fit expert and designer. This is the re-cap of my year-long quest for perfectly fitting pants. It all depends on getting a properly fitted crotch curve that allows your…
A Beach Cover Up, A Polka Dot Vespa, and My First Friend
Back in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, where I grew up lived my first friend ever, her name Theresa Pennetti Klco. We were blood sisters, and so were our daughters. So were our mothers.We never went to the same school. But we lived across the street from each other through fourth grade.Our family moved away to…
Where Has Susan Been in the Past Year?
Since just around this time in 2014, the planets aligned and my life changed, Drastically. Wonderfully. And Completely. Here is how it started. In the Spring I decided that enough was enough, I was bone-tired of selling houses. I decided to apply for Social Security and turn my company over to my one and only…
Susan Sets Sail in a Nautical Border Print
the buttons are not tight, they are gaping because of my arm position To me, sailboats are East Coast, and surfboards are West Coast.so when I was up in Vancouver, B.C. last summer and I saw this fabric, I saw surfboards. Well look at the bottom border, on a quick glance they look like surfboards,…
Wow! I was Nominated for a Liebster Award!
I am honored, and a bit embarrassed, because lovely Anne, Lovely Anne’s Blog nominated me back in April for this award. I was thrilled. And then I could not find her message, I thought the blog boogyman had erased it. I had to go through a couol of posts to find it. then things…
Grrrr, Wild Animal in a Blouse in La Paz
Its mid May 2014. I am on a mission: To create a comfortable, stylish and functional summer wardrobe that will serve for business and casual wear. Yesterday I competed blouse number five in my bevy of blouses. This is another version of the Lekala princess seamed button up blouse pattern number 5114. This is a…
A Little Linen Lekala Blouse for Summer
Summer dressing; it is not easy to look stylish,and crisp and remain cool in summer. And here in Southern Baja, where the searing summer sun cooks you as you walk, and you can see the heat waves shimmering above the sidewalk in front of you, the thought of clothing, sounds like torture.I have a standard…
A Vogue Blouse That I Love So Much, I Made TWO!
In my last post, I talked about being out of summer clothes, and feeling desperate for some new togs!Well I made three new blouses, a small start to a summer wardrobe. I saw this Vogue pattern reviewed three times on Pattern Review. One reviewer had made it out of home dec fabric lenghtened it and left…
Summertime and I Have No Clothes to Wear!
It’s that time of year when the temperatures start to rise, and our clothing get’s more minimal, lighter, and brighter.And I go crazy if I don’t jump in the pool several times a day. I have been on a quest for a good basic blouse to make in several colors to wear with shorts and capris. I…
