The Confident Stitch Swatch Service
I’ve got more fabric for you today, in the form of perfect, petite, pinked swatches! Bite-sized chunks of cloth that I couldn’t resist putting to more permanent use. (I almost subtitled this post "All...
View ArticleFinding Happy
Though the joy in these pics is 100% real, I’ll be honest with you, I started this week out plain DONE. Sad, angry, ugly crying, DONE. I don't have to tell you why, the great big bulk of us is...
View ArticleWhat’s In My Closet
Hands down, when we decided to get some breathing room away from the city this summer, the thing I stalled on THE MOST was what would make it into my suitcase. Well before I learned to sew, clothing...
View ArticleNew on the channel: What I Made in August!
This is a quickie post, cuz I was up till 3am getting this video up on YouTube. THAT'S a ridiculous sentence, ain't it? Last night, as I edited out yammering, and watched spinning uploading balls, I...
View ArticleOutside the Spectrum of Color...and the Pattern Envelope!
Don't you dare tell me summer is over when I am sitting here, RIGHT THIS VERY HOT MINUTE, in the sunshine, in seven yards of wax print.Did I say seven? Indeed I did! I nabbed one lonely yard of this...
View ArticleCopying Rob's Favorite Pair of RTW Shorts!
OH MY FLIP DOESN'T ROB LOOK SOOOOOOOO HAPPY?! Truly, this picture is everything he ever wanted in life!Something he actually *has* been wanting in life, for quite some time now: shorts. The perfect...
View ArticleThe Man, The Myth, THE JAMS.
HEY NOW! THAT is what I call a celestial body! ARE YOU MY LUCKY STAR, BABY?! Yes, I am catcalling my man. I CAN'T HELP IT. He's looking right down the lens of the camera and I'm DONE. IN A GOOD WAY....
View ArticleNew Video: How to Sew a 3D Face Mask with ONE Pattern Piece!
Making light of a dark situation is how we try to roll around here. If you gotta make a mask, you might as well make it FUN.After wearing this 3D face mask in a "Dollar Store Video Haul" on my YT...
View ArticleDress For the Day: All Temperature Cheer.
It’s so beautiful outside this week, my maxi dresses have come back out to play. Mind you, they’re never really benched, they’re just confined to indoor costume changes during the colder months. But...
View ArticleMcCall's 7745...ish.
I might be smiling here, but don't let it fool you, THIS DRESS TRIED TO KILL ME.This is McCalls 7745, which I've made before in leopard rayon jersey. Funny that when I made it in a fabric it wasn't...
View ArticleSunday Singin'
photo by Richard TermineI was at a Zoom Town Hall meeting for "Navigating the Business as a Mixed Heritage Actor" earlier this week. Yes, it was as solid-gold-depressing as it sounds.Suffice it to say,...
View Article20 Sewing Gifts for Under 20 Bucks
Now THAT’s the kind of 2020 I can get behind. I’m all about the fun in function when it comes to sewing tools. Add to that Rob's penchant for peril, and you come up with two armloads worth of some very...
View ArticleAll Dressed Up. Always.
Our bags were packed with summer clothing when we headed down South last July. Rob also schlepped twelve pairs of jeans, and I brought...a portable watercolor set? (We might not have been in the right...
View ArticleFabric Godmother: Silhouette Vs Sewist
What happens when you choose a beautiful fabric when you're not in the *best* frame of mind? If you're like me, you probably rage sew it up, ending up with something that goes in a bag until you're...
View ArticleRemember Water Cooler Chats?
My subconscious obviously knew my somber-hued mood wouldn't last forever, and with a great amount of foresight, chose this FANTABULOUS TECHNICOLOR PALM TREE BIG CAT IN THE JUNGLE PRINT. I have been...
View ArticleThreads Magazine, Diana Vreeland, 'n Me
It's been six months since I joined the Threads Digital Ambassador team. What? You didn't hear? You mean to tell me I just threw that little blue badge up on the sidebar and never properly hollered...
View ArticleThe Handmade Harriells
As I was lamenting for the seventeenth? Seventieth? Uncountable-eth time about the slipping away of hours and months and days, a wise friend said to me: Time is an accordion.Ain’t it the truth! I...
View ArticlePerformance Gowns…or, Back Onstage!
I had an epiphany last week (which will read as “plain common sense” to some): I didn’t need to sew three gowns for my return to the stage. I had plenty of dresses in my closet that hadn’t seen the...
View ArticleA Jacquard Gown for a Jewel Box Theater
I’m coming to you from a little hiding place in my mind, where I live in an intimate jewel box of a theater that only houses about 250 of my closest friends. Come on in, I have a seat reserved for you....
View ArticleCatching Up: 9 Months of Sewing
Quite a few things got sewn in the past nine months, and only a handful made it to this space. It's easy to lose track, innit?! I keep thinking this past summer was our summer down South. Also,...
View ArticleA (Very Mini) Runway Inspired Look
Who's this hussy and what have you done with the chick that's usually stomping around here in maxi-length dresses?Got some eye candy for you today, in this short and hopefully sweet post, in this short...
View ArticleSewing an Off The Shoulder Dress with The Confident Stitch
How blue you look today, I hear you cry! And yet, how joyful! How did you come to this combination?!Well, my friends, this usually warm-toned gal has gotten a makeover once again from the marvelous...
View ArticleNew Year's Eve, 2021
This is a post to mark the passing of time. Full disclosure, ya might wanna skip it. It’s not the usual mood around here, but as everyone’s aware at this point, the glossy half of social media is just...
View ArticleSewing for My Man: The Neverending Story.
Help me Rhonda, it's time to make Rob a blazer. It's been time for years now. But in my defense, this man is a VERY PICKY DRESSER. This is strange, considering the 22-year-old dusty mauve oversized...
View ArticleStep into my Handmade Closet! Everything I've Sewn in 2021
It took me a minute, but I climbed back up on the YouTube horse, and I did it by swirling around in every technicolor thing I made in 2021. (One of those things was finished right under the wire, I...
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