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November 26, 2021
In the US, it's the last weekend of November when we celebrate Thanksgiving and the whole weekend is full of family, college football and food. It's to celebrate the bounty of harvest and the kindness of sharing with one another.Â
For me, it's a great time to thank all of you for all you've given me in the last year. This has been one of my best years surprisingly in the midst of so much tumult, confusion and worry. But in spite of all that, I've felt much kindness and have gotten to know so many of you, more than any other year. I get to hear your fun events and successes, how you challenge yourselves, and working through all those challenges.Â
So here's my list of specific thanks:
Thank you for your commitment to your sewing. Sometimes problem-solving isn't as quick and easy as we would like, but I'm a great believer in persistence. Persistence wins through anything else; ignorance, inelegance, or ineptness. No matter how unprepared you think you are, if you are persistent, you can succeed.
Thank you all for supporting me. This tells me I'm at least on some place close to the right track of what you want to learn and what you want to know. This process of teaching can be confusing and troublesome for the simple fact that both student and teacher are working in the dark. The student because she doesn't know what she doesn't know, therefore doesn't know what to ask. The teacher, at least this teacher, isn't willing to inundate you
with a plethora of useless information in an effort to hit the one thing that the student needs to know. So from both perspectives (student and teacher) we are often working in the dark.
Thank you for your willingness to learn and expand your knowledge and cadre of skills. This one thing, can bring you so much more in your life, that no one can ever take away.
Thank you for staying with me through all the failed sites, goofs in the technology of getting content up on my site, which seems to be a constant battle, but settling down now. Hopefully I can build more there as the stability continues!
Here's wishing for all your family celebrations this weekend to be delightful and a thankful advent of the holiday season.Â
Happy Thanksgiving
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A little update on activity on the site. I'm sure you all have missed the monthly Zoom calls and they will start again. There is something that got in the local water, and everyone decided to get married the end of November. It's actually not a bad time. Everyone's home anyway, and easy to set something up and get it all done before the holidays. As a result, I'm in the
envious position of doing a lot of clients for the weddings and looking forward to sharing those with you.  But having only the 24 hours in the day and needing such pesky things like sleep has been an issue in the last month. Â
So I'm looking forward to the end of the month and the holiday month more than usual this year when I can start creating and playing with you all again! Not that I don't like my clients, but playing with all of you is so much more fun - you know "like kind" and all that!
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This is the quintessential toolbox for the wannabe designer, and you don't even have to draw to use them. All you have to do is trace. That may sound just a little too far-fetched, but believe me, not all designers can draw, and most of them do not sew. So you are one up on most designers.Â
This package includes a lot:
Elements & Principles of Design w/Color
Proportion (Divine and Rule of Thirds) and Apex Point Fitting
and something new:
 Sketching - taking the idea to sketch, to pattern to garment and yes, you can do that. It's not that hard. There are a lot of steps, but this is the final part of the whole package of creating something especially for yourself.
You know all those pictures on Pinterest or pinned in your studio or on your bathroom mirror?...those ones you know you would look smashing in if...1.) you could find the right pattern, 2.) you might be able to find it in RTW, but to fit you would be a problem or 3.) you've always wanted to create a look or certain collar or fabulous sleeve or some other detail and never knew how. Here's how to do that.Â
This does require that you have your core pattern up and running. That's what the whole pattern will be based on and it is what makes all this work so well. Whereas commercial pattern makers and designers have to go through 5 to 8 iterations to get it right, with your core pattern, we already know it works, and what we're doing is copying that to make the style you want.Â
If you already have only one of the above, then you have the opportunity here to bring your toolbox up to date by acquiring the only what you need at a discounted price. The Sketching Resource is the only one that's new that no one has before this month.Â
At the same time if you want the whole kit and caboodle, it's at an even greater discount than normal. Here's everything with the whole kit and caboodle at the bottom!Â
Enjoy!
Elements & Principles of Design with Color Primer - This is what art and design students learn in art school. The only difference between them and you is that they have the time to play around with them. But we can do the same, albeit a little less time.Â
Fitting with Proportion and Figure-Flattering Tools
(This one comes in two parts)
Sketching - From Idea to Garment
The Design Toolbox - All Three Resources above in one download at a terrific price.Â
Once this special is over, the Sketching will go into both the Proportion and Elements & Principles (it's already in the Toolbox), at regular pricing.
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