Repairing My Parka + What Would YOU Make With This Fabric?

My mountain parka (above) is one of my all-time favorite sewing projects.

Vogue 8889 Men's Shirt Reveal or "Hello Voile-y"

Friends, I am happy to report that I finished my cotton voile shirt over the weekend.

Oh, You Beautiful Voile!

Today I started my latest project, a shirt made from the gray floral cotton voile I purchased last month at Elliott Berman.  It's a very delicate, finely woven fabric from France.

Yee-Haw -- Peter Models the Western Shirt!

Readers, the Western shirt is done, pearl snaps and all!

To see me model it, just click here.

The Western (or Cowboy) Shirt -- YEA or NAY?

Readers, it didn't dawn on me till I was halfway through the chambray shirt I'm making that it's really a modified cowboy shirt.

Working on a Chambray Shirt

I saw this shirt, from Levi's vintage line, on Pinterest recently and I really liked it.

Weekend Knit Shirt Drama

I don't sew with cotton knits very often, readers.  Here's why:

New Pattern, New Fabric, New DECLUTTERING!

I can't remember whether I showed you this beautiful gray cotton lawn I picked up last month at Elliot Berman.

Vogue Spring Fashions -- of 1942!

As anyone who follows me on Pinterest already knows, I am a big fan of vintage department store display, Sixties hairdos, and -- most especially -- Forties fashion.  

MPB EXCLUSIVE: An entire BOOK about the sewing pattern industry!!!

Last Saturday my friend Johanna lent me a library copy of A History of the Paper Pattern Industry, written by Joy Spanabel Emery and published by Bloomsbury in 2014.