sarah in nyc

I met my friend Carol about twenty years ago on an online sewing discussion group. The discussion group itself was an outgrowth of a small sewing news letter, Creative Machine Newsletter put out by the brilliant sewing writer Robbie Fanning. The newsletter had migrated to the internet and then several years later the host of the of the discussion group decided to drop the CMn group from it's roster. Amazon.com Widgets CMN had become a real home for me. Not that many people in my social circles here in Manhattan sew. There aren't that many people in my neighborhood who can talk me through a sewing emergency. My pals on CMN though could be  obsessed about ways to install a zipper or how to fix a really terrible sewing disaster when there isn't another square inch of fabric around to patch the horrible scorch I have created on a nearly done tallit. The people on the CMN list are dear friends.  I have never met most of them in real life. I can tell you though that I c...

To all of the readers who have been directed here from the Russian sexy escort site. I am sorry to disappoint you. You probably won't find all that much that is interesting here for you.   The exhibit I saw on Scraps at the Cooper Hewett     began with this piece Amazon.com Widgets it's a darning exercise  that you can read about here.  Mending was a necessary life skill in the days when clothing was expensive. mending with skill meant the difference between your family being warm and clothed or not.  About fifteen years ago there was an exhibit at the New York Historical Society about sewing in New York. A challah cover I had made was part of that exhibit, but that's not why I am mentioning the exhibit right now. One of the pieces in the exhibit that really has haunted me was a bit of a workman's denim garment from the late 19th century.  The denim was mended with such beauty. The mend was both utilitarian and also incredibly beautiful....

My husband's nephew is in town for the week. We decided to make today a museum day. We left the house thinking that we would go to the Met. We took the cross town bus and walked downtown along Fifth Avenue. On the way to the met we stopped off at the Cooper -Hewett. Amazon.com Widgets There was an exhibit called Scrap about how designers are using waste materials from the textile industry to create fashion and usable objects. One artists begins with saris. The saris are used in three stages. In the first, Western style garments are cut from the yardage.  In the second stage, mixed fabrics are pieced together and then over dyed in one color. I didn't take photos of the garments in the first two stages, they were nice enough, but not all that exciting. In the next couple of stages the artist uses smaller and smaller bits of the saris. The base fabric is made out of over-dyed saris and then circles of waste sari fbric are appliqued to the base. Curtains i...

My buddy came to town on Wednesday for a New York fix. The wonderful thing about having a sewing buddy come to town is that it becomes possible to do the wall to wall fiber touring that my family can do only in small doses. Thursday we did lots of running around. Our day began at the Museum of the City of New York and the Valentina exhibit. Click here for a video about her work. http://www.style.com/video/fashion-moments/fashion-moments/1896809784/valentina-schlee/9341623001 We saw the Fashioning Felt exhibit at the Cooper Hewett. You can visit virtually http://http//exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Fashioning-Felt/ . The exhibit was fabulous. It was just plain fun. It is such a tactile intense exhibit that I had to control myself from not just touching, but also rolling around on the pieces exhibited. Clearly, I wasn't the only person who felt this way, ( pun NOT intended) because there were small samples of the felt to touch near the exit of the exhibit. We also went to the Kips Bay...