S. Denise Hoyle | August 21, 2009
Sew Stylish Magazine announced their Fall Fashion Contest in this month’s edition. The contest focuses on creating designer inspired fashions and the fall 2009 issue of the magazine shows you how to create high-style designer looks with easy sewing and simple pattern work. It’s easy to enter, just upload pictures of your design, a picture [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | August 20, 2009
My oldest just started kindergarten last week and I’ve been doing tons of hemming on his new uniform pants and shorts since our local public schools require uniforms, all of which seem to be a mile too long. He’s growing so fast that I didn’t want to cut too much off the bottoms, which inspired [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 19, 2009
With school starting right around the corner, and “pre school” and day care all year long, I found a perfect tutorial for making painting smocks. You might even be able to recycle an old vinyl table cloth (I have two of them here that desperately need recycling and 3 1/2 year old quadruplet grandbabies that [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | August 18, 2009
After a brief scare that the show might not be coming back, I’m happy to say that a new season of the hit show “Project Runway” will be starting this Thursday, August 20th. Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn and a whole new cast of designer wannabes will be moving from Bravo to Lifetime but the format [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 17, 2009
From the number of requests for our Pattern Making for Maternity Wear and Converting Store Bought Patterns into Maternity Styles classes, I’d say this must be “I’m gonna be a mommy” season!! Of course the Pattern Making for Maternity Wear class tells you how to take your own measurements and use those measurements to make [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 16, 2009
I would venture to say that there are probably as many people carrying around a laptop as there are people with cell phones. Well, maybe there are more cell phones, but those laptops can become glued to us just as quickly as the cell phones! Just can’t live without either one of them.This month’s “project [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 15, 2009
Recycle is the best word yet as far as I’m concerned! Whether you’re recycling milk bottles into sand “scoops”, old clothes into new garments – whatever it is, it works for me!I’ve just found a great way to recycle old, beyond repair, quilts into fabric leaves — you can also use those bits and pieces [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | August 14, 2009
Ashley Hackshaw’s mother taught her the basics of sewing when she was around six years old. Her mom used to make their clothes, bedding, and curtains, and was always taking on big household projects like re-painting the kitchen cabinets. Ashley has since gone from career woman to stay-at-home mom of Sienna, a precocious 2-year old [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | August 13, 2009
1. Increase Traffic Search engines love blogs because they provide lots of fresh, keyword rich content. If your business maintains a regularly updated blog with topics of interest to your target market, your website will rank higher in the search engines when potential customers search for your services and products, which will greatly increase traffic [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 12, 2009
A very simple smocked dress can easily be made by purchasing pre-smocked fabric. The finished product is so cute, you’ll want to make several of them. Purchase the width of pre-smocked fabric that you’ll need for the child’s chest measurement plus 1″ for seam (1/2″ side seam) plus 1″ for growing room.You’ll notice that the [...]
