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It Figures: Doing a Figure Analysis, part 1

February 20, 2013

  Readers, I’ve asked myself time and again how I could hang back from sewing certain patterns, for years, even, when I am so crazy about them.   I think the reason is I’m not a jump-in-and-try-it sewer.  I like to think things through. And through.  And through! I want information!  I want answers! Preferably […]

The Chart

February 18, 2013

Readers, In my first post I refer to this very casual-looking chart that’s the basis of Getting Things Sewn. What in the world is it?  What is it supposed to do? Let me explain. Life before the chart was like this: I’d fall in love with fabrics or patterns, and buy them.  But, strangely, I […]

The Who and the Why

February 16, 2013

There once was a sewer who underwent pain Whenever she entered her sewing domain. What met her were unfinished projects on racks And patterns and fabrics in stacks upon stacks. Of buttons and books she had in such numbers They constantly interrupted her slumbers. Now here’s what’s ironic: she was no barbarian; She’d long earned […]

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