The Forgotten Seamstress: Colette Book Club Discussion

Colette Patterns is hosting a book club this year and the discussion for the first book started this week.  The book club description says it will focus on texts "that enhance our understanding of sewing" with a new book every six weeks.  I joined hoping to find a few great technical texts to learn from, but I read The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow on my Kindle (affiliate link) and enjoyed it enough.  I downloaded the first four chapters for free, and it was interesting enough to want to keep going.  The story is an fast and easy read.  Keep reading for my responses to the discussion questions for the book.  You can also visit the Colette Book Club discussion blog post to see the other responses to the book. 

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Colette Moneta as a Sweater & Grainline Archer for Momiform MAKEover Tour with Baste+Gather

Mom jeans.  Well, maybe now it's mom yoga pants or leggings (essentials of the contemporary mom uniform).  Moms often have a reputation for ill fitting or just plain sloppy clothes.  I'm there many days.   So, when Lauren Dahl of Baste+Gather proposed the Momiform MAKEover Tour, I knew I wanted to participate.  I don't sew for myself very often and I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to adapt patterns to fit  (and hopefully mask) my disproportionate midsection.  After you see my garments, keep scrolling and enter the GIVEAWAYS at the bottom of the post.  Lauren put together an awesome giveaway with over 50 winners!  Then, go visit the other bloggers on the tour, especially Scientific Seamstress, Call Ajaire, and 110 Creations who also have posts today (full schedule at bottom of post).

Disclaimer & Disclosure: No spanx or other "helpful" tools were used for this post.  The patterns (which I chose) were provided to me for free, with no requirements other than I sew them for this tour.

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