Next up in our sponsor parade, please welcome Birdsongs and Bows! This store is all about the pretty. It’s a place that any little girl would want to live. And who could blame them? There are step by step pictorial instructions for how to make pretty bows: Flowers: And accessories: You can buy the tutorials…
Archives for June 2012
A Pinterest Note
Warning: Completely unrelated to Skirt Week. Totally stole Adrianna’s baby’s photo to help make my point. There are lots of reasons to love and hate Pinterest. Most of which have already been stated and re-stated and argued and re-argued. What I have to say, at least in this post, is more informative than anything else….
Skirt Week Sponsor: Fabricworm
Great skirts require great fabric. The fabric we can get our hands on for far less than an arm and a leg these days is nothing short of amazing to me. Including the fabric I find at Fabricworm. One of the reasons I stopped sewing in college was that I couldn’t find fabric I liked….
Skirt Week Sponsor: Sew Liberated
Next up is the pattern designer, book writer, sewist, and blogger extraordinaire, Meg from Sew Liberated! (and her husband Patrick & the rest of the Sew Liberated team!) I had the good fortune to win some patterns and a signed copy of her book Sew Liberated a few years back, and they were such a…
Skirt Week Sponsor: The Fabric Fairy
Have you met The Fabric Fairy? I haven’t met her in person yet, but I’ve met her via the information superhighway. I had questions about the FOE (foldover elastic) and her responses were exactly what I needed to decide what to get. I told her that I’d recently tried some FOE from a chain store…