Burda Style For people who sew

16 December, 2011

• 04:30 PM

  Andy Nguyen ’s status has been updated to:
  sewed 11 pairs of booties for Xmas presents!

  

10 December, 2011

• 03:45 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article Holiday Giveaway: Day 9 - Win a TG1600 SmartIron from Oliso!

  My 4-thread Janome 1100D serger

  

1 November, 2011

• 01:49 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article Featured Member: Apfelbluete

  I love the dress with the border at the hem (first pic)! Very creative and very sophisticated an…

  

7 September, 2011

• 12:58 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article BurdaStyle Sew Along: Peter Lappin's Halter Dress - Step 2

  I’d like to share a tip on pinning for try-on: I use safety pins. The obvious differences are: …

  

• 12:55 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article BurdaStyle Sew Along: Peter Lappin's Halter Dress - Step 2

  http://www.burdastyle.com/blog/burdastyle-sew-along-peter-lappins-halter-dress-step-1

  

16 August, 2011

• 02:06 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article SINGER® Celebrates 160 Years with MySINGERStory.com!

  Amen! Even my “portable” circa-1978 Singer Fashion-Mate weighs 30 pounds!!

  

30 July, 2011

• 01:37 AM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article Pre-Shrinking Interfacing -- Do You or Don't You?

  There was another discussion on here re. pre-shrinking fusible interfacings. Prior to that, it d…

  

15 July, 2011

• 01:17 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article Learning to Sew: Peter's Top Ten Tips!

  I second point #6: find a community, and would add that a physical community can add to virtual o…

  

4 July, 2011

• 06:56 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the project Leopard Print Bikini

  Good job on the fit!

  

23 June, 2011

• 03:35 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the project Green & white striped shirt

  Thanks! I spent a LOT of time on it and on the cuffs!

  

• 02:00 PM

  Andy Nguyen added the project called Green & white striped shirt

  

  I made this shirt off of a pattern that I duplicated from a ready-to-wear shirt, using David Page Coffin’s method of making pattern from a shirt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRLCHj2mDFE

  Read on

  

• 01:53 PM

  Andy Nguyen ’s status has been updated to:
  sewed for Haiti, now fixin' to sew for a play...

  

2 April, 2011

• 08:52 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article Why More Men Don't Sew - And Does It Matter?

  The dearth of interesting menswear patterns no doubt contributes to the small number of men who s…

  

• 08:46 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article Why More Men Don't Sew - And Does It Matter?

  I don’t know if I buy the premise that maybe men don’t sew as much because we don’t have the pati…

  

• 08:43 PM

  Andy Nguyen commented on the article Why More Men Don't Sew - And Does It Matter?

  “Men are (in general – a lot of this is generalising) impressed if you made the shirt you are wea…