by Raechel Henderson | Feb 10, 2021 | Sewing
I’m not a jeans person. Growing up and during my early 20s I wore them because I guess it was what everyone wore. But as time went on it got harder to find jeans that fit. (It didn’t help that I hate clothes shopping.) I’ve pretty much switched to wearing skirts...
by Raechel Henderson | Jun 28, 2018 | Sewing
Despite having access to an experienced in house seamstress (me), my children have rarely asked me to make them costumes. For three years straight, when she was five to seven years old, my daughter Charlotte was a cat for Halloween. It was a costume that required only...
by Raechel Henderson | Nov 9, 2016 | Sewing
It is hard to keep in mind that cloth making was a laborious process not so long ago. Watching this video of cloth making, from plant fiber to finished cloth, is almost exhausting to watch. https://youtu.be/42tDQUHO1pE
by Raechel Henderson | Aug 18, 2016 | Sewing
Sometimes you get an idea that is so obvious you wonder why you didn’t think of it before. They’re the kind of ideas that when you tell people they say, “Holy shit, yeah! That’s a great idea!” I don’t think these moments of...
by Raechel Henderson | Apr 29, 2016 | Musings, Sewing
It started with a late night Facebook post: I was half joking, half serious. My friends, however, were way serious. People immediately started suggesting and calling dibs on songs. Their enthusiasm was contagious and I responded with how I saw the various songs...
by Raechel Henderson | Oct 7, 2015 | Sewing
Ben has been in preschool for a month now and I’ve been making good use of my couple of hours of alone time every other day.* That mostly means working on commissions, but I have started going through all those sewing projects I pinned and giving some a try....
