In today's post, I'm talking about the essential clothing wardrobe pieces every woman needs. they are essential because everything else can be based on them and if these were your only item of clothing you'd still be fine, OK?

And since this is mostly a sewing blog, I'll have some sewing patterns(which I will make clickable) to accompany the items.

OK, let's get to it............

 It's time for another "how to sew zipper series" and for today its one way of sewing an exposed zipper.




In case you missed other videos in the series.............
Check out how to sew an invisible zipper with a regular zipper foot AND how to sew a railroad/centered zipper






                                          
                                                       

This is a list of sewing challenges for February I could find.

I'll update as I find.

Also, there are a couple of year-long tags that I put in Januarys line up,  here is the list for March, April, so when you're done here go check them out.

So, I'm well aware that January is almost though, that makes participating in some of these challenges hard or impossible, but, there are some that you can join midway and some last the whole year round. I'm already working on the ones for February.

Also thanks to the new Instagram update you can follow hashtags to see posts by other Instagram sewers you never knew existed.

So, here goes the list...............

It's another sewing challenge video HURAYYYYYYYYYYY, I  think these challenges and tags that go along with them, bring the sewing community together, make us more visible to each other and makes our own corner of the big wide internet just that brighter.

 Happy 2018 to you guys, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebration with your loved ones if you do indeed celebrate.
I was so stumped with work, and work-related activities in November, then Christmas prep etc all through December. All in all, I didn't get any type of sewing done in those months.

But today is a sewing tag video going on on youtube right now started/created by @agirlcalledboz and @cottonbycandy (you should check them out on the YT.)

Its a total of 5 question to help you put your sewing for the year past and the new year in perspective, to help you create general goals that hopefully you might adhere to.

For the longest time I have had this yellow fabric sitting in my fabric stash, the idea was always to sew a pencil skirt with a bit more style lines than this turned out, but, I must say I'm really pleased with the outcome plus I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of drafting, cutting and sewing up a project all in 2 hours tops (did you read that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) with some time(1 hour) off to go watch tennis no less.

Now I know for some of you out there it's not a big deal but I'm a slow sewist and this was like a huge revelation to me.

This all started when I uploaded my video on how to sew with twin needles in the video I actually test out the Prym stretch twin needle on a piece of this yellow fabric and I liked the results a whole lot.