Sew Ruthie Style

Here's the progress so far with my teal pieces. I've chosen teal as one of my neutrals for SWAP, and as you can see its quite ...

The Pattern Review 5th Annual Sewing Bee has started. I've not participated in this before but a few blogs I read took part in the last ...

Although Dr T gives lots of Burda trousers (pants) patterns for the Kibbe natural , I decided that I will sew Burda Style 02/2010 #135 in a...

Dark teal jersey used for New Look 6735. Size 18, three quarter sleeve as per the pattern. Slight forward head alteration and a little...

DrT has a few examples of a scooped neck top being suitable and makes the comment. While I’m focusing on Kibbe’s unconstructed feature, v...

My version of New look 6416 is complete. This is probably how I would mostly wear it, slightly crossed over and belted with an open neckl...

I only had 2 metres of this fabric, so had to do a bit of pattern tetris to cut it out. I ended up with size Large, slightly shorter (5c...

The very interesting blog Doctor T designs has been covering sewing pattern suggestions for different body types (based on the Kibbe types)...

I'll stick with these colour groupings, but may have to sub in alternate fabrics if the yardage is too short or some other issue...

Here are the fabrics I've chosen for SWAP 2019. The INK BLUE fabrics left to right - ink blue jersey for a knit top, ink blue and o...

I decided that I would have Ink Blue and Teal as my Base Neutrals with Stone and Rose Pink as the Accents. Using this palette I investi...

2018 Focus During 2018 I have concentrated on Stash Shrinker and the Stitchers Guild SWAP 2018. Some Statistics I managed to sew up 1...

I have been working on this simple coat very slowly over the last few weeks. It still needs hemming and a good press but is otherwise com...