Readers, Pants-fitting: a weighty topic in 2018. There is something Jack and I say to…
Paula DeGrandJanuary 15, 2019
Readers, The summery striped linen I snatched up in 2014 at The World's Largest Textile…
Paula DeGrandAugust 23, 2018
Readers, Of all the great things my sewing teacher Edith has told me, the one…
Paula DeGrandJuly 27, 2018
Readers, If you sew, you'll know just what I mean. I'll pop into a clothing…
Paula DeGrandJuly 5, 2018
Readers, After months of pants pattern-fitting and muslin-making without much to show for my efforts…
Paula DeGrandJune 17, 2018
Readers, In case you've been wondering where I've spent much of the last six months,…
Paula DeGrandJune 10, 2018
Readers, News of the passing of Hubert de Givenchy reminded me that I have a…
Paula DeGrandMarch 13, 2018
Readers, There are few things I love more than having a good project. I love…
Paula DeGrandFebruary 25, 2018
Readers, Like the majority of sewers, I'm enchanted by novelty. There's always a new fabric,…
Paula DeGrandJanuary 26, 2018
Readers, Yesterday I wrote this post and was almost finished with it when I had…
Paula DeGrandJanuary 17, 2018
Readers, A disconsolate letter poured into the Getting Things Sewn headquarters this morning addressed to…
Paula DeGrandJanuary 4, 2018
Readers, This New Year's Day morning, like millions of other people, I hung a new…
Paula DeGrandJanuary 1, 2018
Readers, I was taking a brief break from Thanksgiving Day cooking when I saw an…
Paula DeGrandDecember 18, 2017
Readers, What did it take to go from this: A very sad valance accompanying spindly…
Paula DeGrandNovember 15, 2017
Readers, I'll cut to the chase: I have an "X" figure type with sloping shoulders.…
Paula DeGrandNovember 2, 2017
Readers, Have you ever tried to define your fashion personality and wardrobe style in just…
Paula DeGrandOctober 14, 2017
Readers, I don't think it's emphasized nearly enough how much this thing we call "sewing"…
Paula DeGrandSeptember 26, 2017
Readers, I haven't seen a decluttering book specifically for sewers--yet--but when I came across the…
Paula DeGrandSeptember 20, 2017
Readers, Last Saturday I joined fifteen other sewers in Sew to Speak's first annual De-Stash…
Paula DeGrandSeptember 13, 2017
Readers, This past weekend I started slimming down my bloated collections of sewing supplies, taking…
Paula DeGrandSeptember 7, 2017
