Look ma, I’m making jeans! It’s taken me awhile to jump into jeans sewing. Now and then I’d see a cute pair on a sewing blog and get the warm fuzzies. They’d send me hunting for some dream denim, of which I have now accumulated a few yards. And I blame those fuzzies for seducing …
Maybe it was all the Gatsby craze in the air. Or the Krypton set designs in Man of Steel. Blink and you’ll miss it, but I think there was an homage to the Spirit of Detroit statue–one of my favorite hometown attractions–in the “history of Krypton” scene. The rest of the movie bored me to …
Yes I’m referencing Tom Petty and not the dolls. Derek and I recently re-watched the 2007 documentary Runnin Down A Dream. It’s four hours long! But it’s fantastic. If you didn’t “get” him before, you’ll be surprised at this Southern boy, big star story. Doesn’t matter if you’re a fan or not; music documentaries make …
Sweet potato fries with chipotle aioli. Topo Chico, the Pellegrino of Texas. And then finish it all off with a watermelon agua fresca. Not a really balanced lunch, but there were cucumbers in there somewhere. Seriously, these are things I crave in mid-summer and they are so so Austin. As are food trucks, which I …
My take on a frameless (aka partial band) bra in sheer leopard mesh, with highlights on the distinctions between frameless and full-frame styles.
Wadder: Does anybody know the origin (national, internet?) of this sewing term? It’s related to “wadding something up”, right? For my non-sewing-web friends, it means project bust. Sewing is such a practical art. It doesn’t matter how beautiful a garment is, how impeccably done, if I can’t wear the end result, there’s not much use …
