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Fans of Project Runway season 12 will remember Miranda Levy as the spunky, former military fashion designer from Milwaukee.  Register NOW - space is limited! Now you can take a sewing class with Miranda at Vogue Fabrics in Evanston , Illinois!   Two classes are planned for this summer: Ugly Doll on Sunday, July 27 Doll Clothes on Sunday, August 17 Miranda Levy from Project Runway is teaching 2 classes at Vogue Fabrics.

Reconstructing History Patterns - available on VougeFabricsStore.com It's that time again.  Pop-up Halloween stores appear in the vacant strip malls.  The drug stores cram plastic toss-away costumes in their seasonal aisles.  Television commercials are infiltrated with  zombies and witches dancing to Thriller . OK, can I be frank with you here?  You sew, and you pride yourself on your creativity, but every year you procrastinate with the Halloween costume. You put things off until you realize you have no other option than to run out and grab some cheaply constructed thing off the rack, or you dig through your son's closet, grab his football jersey, and put the black stuff under your eyes.  That's when you look to the sewing gods above and exclaim, "Next year I'll do better!" Start now and create something spectacular!  If you are a costumer, or you like to wear the same costume year after year, treat yourself to a new pattern from Folkwear or

On recent trips to New York City and to the French Riviera, we saw store windows filled with exciting items for men, women, kids and home décor created from suede, vinyl and leather .  Jackets included trench coats and slickers, bomber jackets, and cropped styles with metal accents.  Shirts featured classic button-down styling for men, while for women the shirts, skirts and dresses were filled with cut work allowing brilliant contrast colors to pop through from the back.  Attaché cases, upscale messenger bags and purses were accented with metal and rhinestone .   Shoes featured updated clean lines for classic loafers and pumps, while boots were ankle or knee length with metal zipper accents.  The hats and gloves had simple lines, and the belts were filled with metal grommets or spikes.  It was really incredible how many of these items there were in the boutiques and department stores.  When you use synthetic materials, you get many affordable options for creating your own chi

Two years ago, we posted an epic blog entry titled: Becoming a Fashion Designer. Tips on Starting a Fashion Design Business.   This was one of our most popular posts and generated a lot of feedback online, via email and from people calling and visiting our warehouse. Now you can have more detailed information in a comprehensive and very reader friendly book from fashion designer Angela Wolf: How to Start a Home-Based Fashion Design Business.   You have seen Angela on It’s Sew Easy and you may have purchased her sewing patterns from our site. Angela also teaches around the country in addition to having her own ready-to-wear line.   So, yes, you could say she is an expert in her field and more than qualified to bring you this fantastic information. So, what’s in the book?   Angela takes you through a checklist of sorts to make sure you have what it takes to be a fashion designer.   She covers the gamut of issues being self-employed, starting a company, who and how to hire

Tokyofive.com  $58.95 shirt Have you seen those plaid shirts with the check accents on the collars and pockets?   Until now, it has been nearly impossible to find fabrics that will allow you to get this look.  We have an exciting collection that will blow your mind! Vogue Fabrics proudly offers Beachcomber Reversible Cotton Gauze Shiritings .   Super soft, lightweight cotton fabric is double woven with plaid on one side and a check pattern on the other.  You can use either side as the face.   You can easily re-create those cool camp shirts using the same fabric and reversing the sides.   For the super thrifty, whip up an elastic waist skirt that you can wear reversibly for two looks in one garment.   Also try stitching up a full skirt, slitting the side hem to the knee, and tacking back the corners to showcase both sides.   How about making some clam diggers – full legged   pants with elastic waist that go down to the mid-calf – and rolling up the hem to reve

Jacket from Saint Tropaz with Sophia Knit contrast. If you ask anyone who sews clothes for themselves what they consider the hardest part about sewing  a new garment , most will answer "fitting the pattern to my body."  Vogue Fabrics would like to introduce you to Judy Kessigner's FitNice System .  First you fit a "master top" to your figure, and then create numerous new blouses, dresses and jackets by simply altering various aspects of the master pattern.  Yes, that's right, once you fit the master top pattern to your shape, you can change the sleeve styles & lengths, necklines, hem lengths & styles, and even add different types of front openings to make the top into jackets.   Judy Kessinger started her career owning and operating a small Retail fabric store in Louisville, Kentucky. She traveled nationwide holding seminars for Hancock Fabrics for over 25 years, designed costumes for national and international figure ska