These colourful PJs are a much nicer product, IMHO, than the extremely badly sewn curtain panels the crazy print used to be. The cotton fabric is courtesy of my husband, the expert thrifter. He ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2024/03/its-curtains.html
Now that the Sewing Lawyer is retired, there are vanishingly few occasions for the wearing of anything resembling a suit, but (surprise!) the stash is full of wool that was bought over the years ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2024/02/washable-wool-repurposing-stash-fabric.html
Here I am enjoying my new Dawn jeans on a wonderfully sunny, if quite chilly day. Winter is definitely coming, but there are still plenty of leaves on the trees. What to say about the...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/10/mission-accomplished-dawn-jeans.html
I lusted after jeans with long, wide legs in the 1970s. I have a specific memory of an ad that featured an impossibly leggy young woman wearing such a pair. If she had feet, it wasn't apparent; t...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/10/1970s-your-jeans-are-calling.html
I made another pair of shortie Carolyn PJ s for myself. But this time I changed the collar to be a more straightforward sew. I don't love the fabric, which is a strangely flimsy cotton with t...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/10/finishing-so-i-can-start-something-else.html
We (the retreaters) have revealed our finished and mostly-finished cardigans to each other and to Nic Corrigan and are cleared to show them to whomever we please. So here is the cardigan ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/10/lumb-bank-cardigan.html
Last month, I went to a machine knitting retreat. It was AMAZING! Five days in a beautiful house perched halfway down a steep hill (Lumb Bank) outside a quaint, tiny village (Heptonstall) out...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/10/first-ever-mkc-retreat.html
Should I edit the title of my blog? As of mid September, this is me. More time for doing my stuff. We shall see if it includes more sewing and knitting projects, and if I make time to blog...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/09/momentous-development.html
Once again, I fell for a new Closet Core pattern. This time it is the Jo Dress & Jumpsuit . The dress immediately appealed to me, but as I'm about to retire (no more office clothes!) I decided m...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/07/my-onesie-is-not-onesie.html
I usually make my husband a pair of tailored PJs at Christmas, but for some reason I was sleeping in disintegrating non-me-made flannelette PJs (winter) or t-shirts and shorts (summer). I have a...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/06/everybody-needs-new-pjs-right.html
I recently bought the pattern for the Phen Shirt , after seeing versions I loved on Instagram . Behold: > How could I resist this crazy silhouette? The beautiful deep back yoke? The ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2023/05/this-shirt-is-huuuuge.html
How many years ago did this pattern come out? At least a few. And I've owned it for a while. But this is the first time I've tackled it. This version is made from a mid-weight woven embroider...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2022/06/cielo-finally.html
Rarely do I find fabric that I Must.Sew.Right.Now! This was one such piece. Why? A print that looks like bulky stockinette!The fabric is my nemesis; a soft rayon/lycra jersey. But who c...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2022/05/this-is-not-sweater-or-thats-so-meta.html
Jalie 2679 has been around for a while - since before Jalie started giving name identifiers to its patterns. (I don't know about you, but I find "Stretch Softshell Jacket" a more useful monik...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2022/05/still-on-theme-of-casual-clothes.html
All my posts these last 2 years start by apologetically noticing how neglected my blog is. So I won't do that again. I realized though that my blog is completely useful - to me at least. I ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2022/05/more-pandemic-comfy-clothes-workout.html
I believe I promised you information on how I hope to be free from laborious calculations for my machine knitting projects. I bought software! Behold, at left, a top I made using it. (More d...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/10/installment-3-machine-knitting-from-2021.html
Wow, talk about fits and starts. Part 1 was published August 1 and here it is the end of September already! Well, there has been more machine knitting. Quite a lot, actually. In April, I joined...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/09/2021-knitting-part-2.html
This year I have zero hand knit projects and nine completed machine knit projects. Last year I had one hand knit project and eight machine knitted finished objects. I gave these socks to my so...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/08/and-of-course-there-has-been-knitting.html
If I was blogging more regularly it would provide me with an accurate account of what I've made in the past months. Oops, now I have to wrack my brains to try and remember. I went on a bit of a ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/07/what-else-have-i-made-bras.html
I've had more wear from this dress which is a fantastic summer outfit that requires no fussing. Shaping? What shaping? Very cool on a hot day. It's the Kalle Dress from Closet Core Patterns. ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/07/another-new-dress.html
I posted a photo of the thrifted rayon print I used for this dress in 2015, so it has been marinating for a while in my stash. I had a lot of it - enough to cut out the massive lower skirt piece ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/07/all-dressed-up-and-still-nowhere-to-go.html
I had heard tell you could use a garter bar to make lace but I could not for the life of me figure it out. The garter bar has no moving parts, every prong fits on a needle and seemingly can onl...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/02/adventures-in-machine-knitting-garter_10.html
Last summer I took a course with Diana Sullivan, machine knitting guru from Austin Texas. Of course I wasn't in the same room as she was, nor with any other attendees (and there were dozens). S...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/02/adventures-in-machine-knitting-garter.html
Oh I held out for a while. Non-sewers were all getting their ancient machines out from the back of the closet and firing them up. I was in denial. Yeah, it didn't last. Dhurata Davies Ma...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/02/made-any-masks-lately.html
Yikes, what a year 2020 was. My last few posts almost 12 months ago were written in a state of denial; recalling what had been normal. I reread how I expected to be working from home for a few ...
http://kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.com/2021/02/im-back-but-i-didnt-really-go-anywhere.html