4 Great Resources for Sewing Your Own Wardrobe

Hey Everyone,

Today on Facebook I am starting a series on making and fitting your own clothes.

There are a few great resources I want to share with you here:

First of all there are two wardrobe planners that I love:

1. Seamwork's Free Wardrobe Planner they have a sew along twice a year for building your own wardrobe too.

2. Tina Given's Free Wardrobe Planner she is starting up a wardrobe make along very soon...

3. My Measurements Worksheet which I made specifically for the video series

4. A free basic tank Sorbetto pattern from Colette that we will use in the video series as well.

So grab your freebies and join me on Facebook the next few Tuesdays and Thursdays and let's make some beautiful clothes!

What I have been up to lately... and a free pattern.

Hi Everyone,

About a month ago I decided to start going live on Saturday afternoons on Facebook. It was scary and it still is but... Hey, scary can be fun :) Join me on most Saturdays at 1PM for a chat and some sort of teaching. I am calling it Saturday Stash Buster Club (who remembers Scrappy Stach Buster Club I did a few years ago?). Right now I am teaching how to make my Heartline Quilt:

This was hanging in my shop for years and people always asked for a pattern but I was so exhausted I never had time to do it. So silly really! So I made a pattern for it and I even added a bonus pattern with applique (that quilt isn't finished yet ) and I am offering it for free.

Here is the applique pattern that goes with it.

If you are already a subscriber to my newsletter this will be delivered to you on Monday morning.

So Click Here if you want the free pattern.

Sharing a free pattern for Easter

Hey Everyone,

I posted a free Easter Mini-Quilt Pattern today on my other blog. I thought some of you might be interested. It is a quick simple little make but I think it will brighten up the house... especially in Alison's Diving Board Fabric... :)

Click on over if you would like to make it. I love that I got to use my Cricut Maker for the applique. If you want to make it and want my PNG files for uploading to the Cricut design space just shoot me an email.

Have a great day... I will be back later in the week with our first Beginnings QAL block for this month.

Love,
Julie

Happy Monday! And a free pattern...

I know it has been a long time since I made a Happy Monday post. As most of you know I have been a little sick for the last year and a half but I am so much better now (if a little tired from my travels). It has made me not as chipper as I formerly was.... but that all is changing and I am starting to feel like my old self (uh oh watch out) :)

I made this sewing machine cover for my roommate Jaime, at Sewtopia.

I have been promising this pattern on my Instagram for a few weeks so here it is... <-- click there.

This is just a paper piecing pattern so pretty self explanatory. You will need two printouts for each Spinner block. The block is 8 inches square. I think what makes it look three dimensional is the colors, I put the warmer spectrum on the top and the cooler spectrum on the bottom (it is upside down in the picture above).

To make the block you will need 3" strips of each of your 8 colors (if you are not a precision paper piecer like me). It is easiest to sew them from the outside (wide side) of each ray in toward the center, because when the seams start to get thicker it is easier to get over them from the other side rather than starting at the thick part.

So as I mentioned I was at Sewtopia... having too much fun because the only thing I accomplished (or completed start to finish) was this little Zippy Pouch House:

I adore it... You can find it in Sew Illustrated

This book is so awesome I want to make everything in it... I got it just before I left for Sewtopia... along with Zakka Embroidery I will try to get a few of the embroidery projects done in my slow sewing time on Sunday and show them to you for next Happy Monday.

Hugs!
Julie

ps. The links to the books on Amazon are affiliate links, meaning I get a few pennies if you buy them through the links. Just full disclosure.