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For Amy’s Birthday I bought her a lesson with Anne Cardosa of Simply Sewing. Simply Sewing is Anne’s sewing studio that she runs out of her totally renovated garage in the fabulous neighborhood of Land Park. Amy got a sewing machine as a gift from a family member, so Anne showed her how to thread it and how to change the stitch selection, feet, tension, etcetera.

Here are Anne and Amy going over the fine points of sewing machine feet

And here’s Anne and her student, Jane, in front of Jane’s stunning patchwork purse.

Jane won 1st place in the Dixon May Fair’s Creative Apparel category. Go Jane!

Simply Sewing offers classes and private lessons for adults and children. Anne’s also a lovely person and a pleasure to hang out with, so please check out her website!

In other sewing news, this is finals week for me at school. It’s no biggie though, after the trauma of last week. As you now know, I need something crafty to do in between all of the studying; and finally, after weeks of dreaming about it, I made a wristlet a la Jody’s tutorial over at Javajem!

This is my first sewn accessory =). I have made plenty of curtains and even a puppet stage, but never anything like this. It was easy to make, and it looks so good! Thank you, Jody, for sharing your tutorial with the world!

This was also my first time sewing in a zipper. I don’t know if my zipper was too short or what, but there was a hole after the end of the zipper. No biggie though, I just whip stitched it shut. Also, I couldn’t resist stitching a little embroidered flair, so I did a little daisy on the zipper pull. The only change I made was that I prefer a shorter strap, so I cut it and resewed it a few inches shorter.

I want to make tons more of these. They’re so fast and satisfying! And definitely wonderful for building up the sewing self confidence. This is in the mail right now, on its way to my Mom for her Birthday. Happy Birthday, Mom! xoxoxo

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 at 5:47 am and is filed under artists, community, free, patterns, purses, sewing, tutorials, West Coast.