sewing books

3 min read 2022-01-25 21:49:00

A Few Pretty Pages of The Home Economics Omnibus

This blog post has been reposted from our new blog at MrsDepew.com.Behind every great seamstress is often a handful of really excellent sewing

7 min read 2021-10-19 00:30:00

Ok, so back at the beginning of September, I was naively hopeful that I’d complete my Micro-Mini Wardrobe sewing plans. But alas, for it was not to

8 min read 2021-09-23 00:30:00

For whatever reason the start of fall always brings out the academic in me, and this year I seem to be fulfilling those impulses by binging on a

4 min read 2021-09-09 00:30:00

I recently posted a book review for Love Your Creative Space, a book about designing and organizing creative workspaces. However, I had a few

7 min read 2021-08-24 07:32:04

It’s been a while since I’ve done a good old fashioned book review. Oddly, while my energy for actual sewing projects has been quite low lately,

10 min read 2021-03-03 19:00:01

It's World Book Day tomorrow and we're thinking about our most treasured books. Like loooads of other sewists, I (Louise) used Tilly's first book,

1 min read 2021-03-03 19:00:01

It's World Book Day tomorrow and we're thinking about our most treasured books. Like loooads of other sewists, I (Louise) used Tilly's first book,

7 min read 2020-10-04 18:12:48

Just how important is your neckline selection? One of my sewing mentors contacted me after reading my latest Sheath Post and offered a few helpful

24 min read 2020-08-20 00:00:00

As seems to be my modus operandi of late, this post is going to be a bit long. I suggest tea and cookies if you want to get to the end because

6 min read 2020-03-15 07:33:00

I own a lot of sewing books. I started collecting pre-Internet, when books were the way to learn new sewing techniques. Because I'm preconditioned

4 min read 2020-02-11 19:07:19

Greetings from Palm Beach, an ideal location to “winter” I’m thrilled to be one of twelve students participating in Helen Haughey and Mary

5 min read 2019-11-07 22:29:57

So much to celebrate! First up – our book is now available – 3 weeks ahead of schedule While we were surprised, we are delighted it was

2 min read 2019-10-18 18:40:52

Thank you, Dear Readers for your warm, encouraging and thoughtful responses. Katie and I have read them all, and we felt your love in each message.

5 min read 2019-03-09 05:35:00

This is the second of two books that Quarto sent unsolicited for me to review.I have found I quite enjoy reviewing books, and will be doing another

4 min read 2019-03-06 08:38:00

A few days ago I received two books to review from the Quatro Group. The first David Page Coffin's newest shirt book, released by Creative