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Category: Surface Design

Posted on February 6, 2018February 5, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 4 Comments

Kathy’s Award Winning TRJ

This week we invited our friend Kathy Levy, a retired dressmaker and alterations expert from upstate NY, to write about a wonderful Tabula Rasa Jacket she created for one of the Threads Magazine Challenges.  Her ensemble was given the Most Innovative Use of Lace Award and featured in a 2013… 

Categories: Design, Fabric, Helpful Hints, Jackets, Surface Design
Posted on November 8, 2016August 9, 2020 by Rae Cumbie — 2 Comments

Longarm Couched Jacket

Today we welome Joy, a friend from the Easton MD area who has created a great Tabula Rasa Jacket, her first actually with embellishments using a long are quilting machine.  We asked her to write about it so we could share it with our Sew! Lets Get Dressed readers.  So… 

Categories: Fabric, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Jackets, Quilting, Surface Design, Technique
Posted on July 21, 2015July 23, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 4 Comments

White Shirt – With A Twist, Part 2

Last week’s post outlined the creative process I used to plan my new white shirt and prepare to stencil the shirt using Paint Sticks. Here is the rest of the story and the finished Tabula Rasa Jacket with the Shirt Variations! To get started, I cleaned off my dining room table,… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, How to, Inspiration, Shirts, Surface Design
Posted on July 14, 2015July 23, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — 1 Comment

A White Shirt – With A Twist

Last winter, when I was making note of the 2015 spring and summer fashion trends, the omnipresence of the white shirt on the pages of the fashion magazine caught my eye.  While I am not a slave to fashion, I realized that a new white shirt would be an excellent… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, Inspiration, Shirts, Surface Design, Technique
Posted on September 9, 2014July 23, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — Leave a comment

Sew Let’s Get Dressed – Designing Artful Jackets

It is time to settle on the design for my Tabula Rasa Jacket embellished with painted squares.  Last week I shared with you about the painting process and this week we will consider some design options.  The squares have been heat set and fused to the light fusible web so… 

Categories: Design, Helpful Hints, Jackets, Surface Design
Posted on September 2, 2014July 23, 2018 by Rae Cumbie — Leave a comment

Sew! Let’s Get Dressed – Inspiring Play on Labor Day

On Labor Day it seems appropriate to take a break from work for an enjoyable diversion.  When your work and your favorite hobby converge, as mine do, and your studio is in your home, this can be a challenge.  But yesterday I devised an excellent diversion — playing with Shiva… 

Categories: Events, Helpful Hints, Jackets, Surface Design, Technique

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