I’m Selling Off My Fabric Stash
Scandal | Tailoring YOUR Style
by Joyce Murphy
2y ago
I’m selling off my fabric stash to those who appreciate fine wool for constructing tailored jackets. These fabrics will make beautiful jackets using Judy Barlup’s Japanese Tailoring videos and manual and Starr Hashiguchi’s Timeless Tailoring book for constuction directions. Each fabric length was carefully selected and has a story of what might have been had I sewn them up. But now it’s time for me to move on leaving my favorite fabrics behind. It would be a shame to waste them so I’ve decided to have a sale. SALE BEGINS SATURDAY, June 26th around noon EDT. All items will be switche ..read more
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Why the Single-Sized Pattern?
Scandal | Tailoring YOUR Style
by Joyce Murphy
5y ago
Single-sized patterns were the norm 50 years ago versus today’s multi-sized patterns with several sizes nested together. I miss the singled-sized pattern for one compelling reason. They were ideal for flat-measuring with the cutting lines and stitching lines clearly displayed. And there was plenty of room on the pattern piece to add notations and reference lines. It was much easier to focus on just the one size. My mother taught me how to flat-measure a pattern when I first learned to sew and my 9th grade home ec. teacher (who was also my aunt) did it the same way.  It was the way they both us ..read more
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Announcing: Curvy Bands Add-On patterns are ready to use
Scandal | Tailoring YOUR Style
by Joyce Murphy
5y ago
Much has happened since I posted to this blog in January 2018. I couldn’t believe that it had been that long! And I couldn’t believe that in my most recent post I was giving advice on how to accomplish more in less time by using voice dictation. I  delayed  taking my own advice (until now), and I dropped writing for my  blog and Facebook and basically stopped trying to multitask. I never was very good at it anyway.  And I realized doing more in less time is unrealistic at my age unless this  voice dictation thing really works magic!  I’ll let you know! Instead I chose to work on projects one a ..read more
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