STITCH COLLECTIVE

PINSTRAVAGANZA // As a sewist who doesn’t sew with pins, I have a surprising number of them! While I'm all about the pin-free life, I realize that's not for everyone.

This week, I gave a tour of my collection in Stories to show the different styles and talk about their uses to help folks pick the best ones for their sewing practice.

I’ve saved the series as a highlight under ‘Pins’ on my profile page! Go check it out!

What are your favorite pins to use?

Or are you like me and sew pin-free?

RESOURCES // Are you interested in creating your own label designs or know someone who is? I’ve created a FREE guide where I share my top label design tips! Link in my bio!

If you're new to label design, you'll quickly find that what looks great on your computer screen might not translate well to a physical product.

Paying attention to the key elements outlined in the guide will help ensure designs look great both on your screen and in real life!

I created this resource to help shorten designers’ learning curves, as well as save time, $$$ and frustration on design concepts that won’t work for production!

Why am I sharing this for free?

I’ve been focusing on my goals recently and reanalyzing my mission & values as a business. What’s really becoming clear to me is, in addition to being driven by the creative freedom of sharing my designs, how much I’m compelled to share my knowledge with others who’d like to create labels as part of their own businesses.

I’m a HUGE believer in . If you have label design ideas and the initiative to get started - there is room for you!

As part of my 2021 plan I’m creating a series of FREE resources like this one to help those of you who are interested in exploring label design and production kickstart your journey!

Please share this with anyone you think may be interested in the guide!

COMING SOON // Hitting the shop on the 12th!

I couldn't decide which of these to launch next, so I decided to do both! More prep work for me, but double the fun for you!!

Remember - newsletter subscribers get early access & a special launch day discount! Sign-up link is in my bio!

WHEN EXPERIMENTS WORK OUT // This may be my favorite fabric - ever!

I made this Georgia Midi earlier this month from white linen that I ice dyed. If you’re interested in the dyeing process, I saved it as a stories highlight. I also have a tutorial for how to make the Georgia dress on my YouTube channel - link in bio!

The thing I love most about dyeing is that you never know exactly how something will turn out. The project that I’d ice dyed right before this was a bit of a failure - so having this gorgeous, super saturated, nebula/galaxy fabric come out of the dye pot on my next attempt was a very welcome surprise!

It’s also a reminder to me that just because I was bad at something the last time I did it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try again! I think we short change ourselves sometimes by getting discouraged by failure. It’s ok to be bad at something! It’s also ok to experiment & try again! You might surprise yourself with your results or what you’re able to accomplish.

PATTERN // Elizabeth Suzann

SIZE // OSP

FABRIC // linen that I

LABEL //

MODS // I lowered the front neckline by 1” (I have a large head and could barely get it through the opening on my muslin of the dress).

I added in-seam pockets to make the dress more functional - photo 6

I had to cut the dress on the cross grain to make it fit on the yardage.

I shortened the dress by 4” from the hem and included 9” side slits.

I the fabric in Fiber Reactive Dyes in Gunmetal Gray, Dances with Raisins and Raven colorways from .

I used my favorite neon pink serger thread to finish my seams because