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If you’re thinking about making a muslin, here are 15 tips that will help you get the best results and get you cutting and sewing sooner!

Our new Bistro Dress sewing pattern, a version of the classic sheath dress, is extremely versatile, easy to fit, and can be styled many different ways to give you a dress you’ll wear over and over again.

Introducing our new Liesl + Co sewing pattern, the Bento Tee. It’s a boxy t-shirt pattern that provides lots of versatility while being very stylish.

I’m just back from the Smocking Arts Guild of America convention, and I’m excited to share a few thoughts with you occasioned by my experience.

Today’s Friday feature is a dress inspired by Yves St. Laurent’s Mondrian-inspired dress. (How meta!)

Introducing the newest Liesl + Co. sewing pattern: the Girl Friday Culottes. These aren’t the culottes of old. They’re much cooler!

Introducing the first of four new Liesl + Co patterns, so you can sew something for yourself this fall! This is the Cinema Dress, an adult version of our Oliver + S Hide-and-Seek Dress.

This season we’ll be releasing four new Liesl + Co patterns for women. And in October we’ll release our fall-winter Oliver + S styles.

Join me in Orlando in just a couple of weeks and learn how to change a basic sewing pattern to make many different patterns from it.

Fall is on its way! Here are a few ideas for sewing a beautiful cape that can be layered in cooler weather.

The right bra can make such a difference in how your clothes fit. Are you wearing the correct size?

Can we simultaneously appreciate our bodies for what they are while also working to improve them?