When I was looking into getting a zafu—a Japanese meditation cushion useful for sitting on the floor—I found several sites that talked about how to make your own, but one site in particular stuck out to me. Zafus don’t come cheap. The inexpensive ones start around $30, and the finer quality ones will run you […]
Read MoreIt’s not often that a patterns leaves me scratching my head. And when it does, I’m often not sure if the problem is the pattern, or me over-thinking it. In this case I was making a teeny-tiny zipper pouch, a free pattern available on Craftsy. The pattern instructions don’t have much in the way of […]
Read MoreI had identified two main sources for the problem with keeping the dress where it was supposed to be: the fabric’s tendency to relax, and lack of a support structure. The first thing I did was add a stay-tape, something I first ran into in corsetry: inch-wide twill tape, in this case fitted snugly right under the […]
Read MoreJust recently I bumped into a huge weakness of the mock-up: you do not wear them all day. If you sew garments, at some point or another you will come across the advice to always make a mock-up. Also called a muslin, calico, or toile, it’s a test version of the garment that lets you fine tune […]
Read MoreThere is something just a little bit insane about cosplay¹. We—the fans—look at something that usually exists only in a 2D world and decide “I am going to replicate that. In my spare time. On a budget. And I am going to make it awesome.” Crazy, right? Add to that the fact that many of us—probably most […]
Read MoreIt probably says something about the kind of household I live in that the notion of making my own shoes didn’t seem that strange or extreme to me. I mean, hell, we have a whole book on the subject, and the internet is full of tutorials and ideas and even patterns. But out there in […]
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