Showing My True Stripes
What Shirt to Make With Stripes? It's time to present Shirt #3 that I mentioned here a few weeks ago. This shirt was planned to use the...
Blast From The Past, Part 2
More Early Sewing Adventures! Last time I shared how I got started sewing and showed some of my earliest sewing adventures. This time...
Blast From The Past, Part 1
Where the Sewing Began I started sewing when in high school in 1969. That pre-dated the advent of co-ed home economics classes, and...
Wearing My Heart on My Sleeve
And on My Back, My Front and My Collar. Regular readers of this blog will remember that when Mrs. DTFM and I moved to South Carolina in...
A Really Shirty Week.
That's right, "Shirty." During the past week, I planned three shirts and sewed two of them, taking full advantage of a "snow" day here in...
Still knot the usual tie.
What's a tie without a knot? It's an applique! (continued) In the last posting here, I showed you a Moschino shirt with a necktie...
Knot the usual tie.
What's a tie without a knot? It's an applique! A few years ago while trend shopping for JOANN in New York City, I saw an interesting (and...
No resolutions.
Resolutions are meant to be broken. That's why I never make them. Goals, however, are another thing, and I do try to set them...
Christmas Countdown!
Getting Ready for Christmas It’s the week before Christmas, and DTFM is not sewing; he’s making Christmas candy with white chocolate,...
Sleeping on Velcro?
Stuck on the Flannel Sheets! Several years ago Mrs. DTFM and I started sleeping on flannel sheets in the winter (we had previously lived...
