A friend recently said it perfectly when she described my style as simplicity with unique designs. I couldn’t have described the look and feel I am going for with my patterns better than that. I strive for comfort and style while still being able to live our lives and wear our handmade clothes. No one wants a closet full of clothes they can only wear on date night or for that special occasion. We want to proudly wear our me made clothes no matter what exciting or day to day things we are doing, and if those clothes are interesting thats even better.
Category: Straight Stitch Designs
Mixing up the Ravenna
If you didn’t already know, it is Selfish Sewing Week hosted by the lovely Rachael of Imagine Gnats and Kollabora. This is a week where we celebrate sewing for ourselves. So set aside the projects for friends, kids, customers 🙂 and sew something everyday purely for yourself. I will be participating this week and I look forward to seeing everything you are sewing.
Rachael is also hosting a giveaway on her blog where you can win 40 patterns from a great group of indie designers as well as a gift certificate to Indiesew. My Ravenna pattern is among those being offered so throw your name in for a chance to win it.
Ravenna Tester Round Up
Last week I introduced you to my first pattern, Ravenna, and I couldn’t be more excited for the response it got. You are all so great!
The real people to thank for this pattern are my amazing testers who stuck through MANY revisions and helped me to refine the pattern in a way I never could have done on my own. When you look at a pattern for weeks you stop noticing the details. The steps all make sense to you because they make perfect sense in your head, you forget that every person who makes the pattern isn’t going to be in your head.
Flirty Meets Modern – Ravenna
It’s here it’s here the day is finally here! You can now purchase your own copy of Ravenna!
When I decided on a whim last May to sign up for Lauren Dahl’s Pattern Workshop (affiliate link) course I never could have imagined I would actually get to this point. I had absolutely no knowledge about pattern drafting at all. If you could see the first email I sent Lauren with a bunch of ridiculous questions you would laugh, I had no idea what I was doing.
Straight Stitch Designs
A few months ago I began to think that The Nest Creations didn’t quite fit the direction that I was hoping to move in. When I signed up for Lauren’s course, Pattern Workshop, I wanted to create something that would not only encompass a blog about sewing and crafting but also pattern design. After months and months of brainstorming with my husband, who had some really awesome ideas we landed on Straight Stitch Designs and I couldn’t be more excited.
So welcome to the new home of Straight Stitch Designs, I hope you like it as much as I do!!
Twirling in the Park with the Mae Tunic
The day is finally here and I couldn’t be more excited to share with you the pattern I have been working on thanks to the help of the always amazing Lauren Dahl and her course on Pattern Workshop (affiliate link). You can check out my review of the first half of her course here. I hope to have a review of the second half of the course in the next few weeks, but you know I actually have to finish the course first 🙂