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NYC Sewing Blogger Meetup!

Whoa, what a whirlwind weekend – I got up bright and early Friday morning to grab a 7:30am train into NYC, had an account meeting for work, did some competitive shopping in the city in preparation for more meetings this coming week…


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View from my hotel room

Oh yeah, and then I went to dinner that night with the best group of ladies ever!!  Seriously, sewing bloggers are the nicest people, and they know how to have a good time.

I snagged this picture from Carolyn (she is absolutely hilarious, love her!) post margaritas and tacos…there were quite a lot of margaritas that night and talk about sewing, heehee.


Grabbed this from @diaryofasewingfanatic! Dinner crew last night in NYC #sewing #bloggers #meetup

I am so happy that I got to meet some of my sewing and blogging heros in person this weekend, and met some new, wonderful ladies as well.  From left to right: Devra, Carolyn, Clare, Fleur, Amity, me, Jen, Leatrice, Lauren, Sonja, and Marcy.  What a crew!


Wearing Missoni for Mexican food! #sewing #handmade #diy #imadethis #bloggers #meetup #nyc

Here’s what I wore that night for dinner – my Missoni cardigan, that I still haven’t blogged yet,  Gotta get on that…

Funny enough, for some reason, I didn’t take any pictures this weekend during our epic shopping trip to Mood!  And it really was epic; when we got in line to pay for all of our fabric, the line stretched all the way to the back of the store.  We sewing bloggers don’t mess around, that’s for sure.


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From left to right: gauze, voile, separating zipper, tubular wool rib knit 

I’m surprised that I didn’t leave with more goodies, but I spent more time chatting with everyone than shopping for fabric, which was really the point of the trip for me – getting to finally meet everyone.  It was fun tagging along with Oona as she planned her next project, and Amity had some amazing ideas for mixing together really wild fabrics.  My haul was small, but I got most of what I needed.

The solid black is a gauze that I’m planning on using for the tie front blouse in the new BurdaStyle spring magazine, the pink and black is a lightweight voile that I *think* I may use for a jacket that’s also in the new BurdaStyle.  That’s why I bought the ribbing and the separating zipper – do you know how hard it is to find tubular ribbing???  Of course, I bought the ribbing before we went to Pacific Trimming and found out they having ribbing strips there.  Good to know for future reference…but hey, it was pretty awesome that they shortened my zipper there!


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I didn’t have a chance to say hello to her, but Maddie gave all of us some vintage silk thread!  I’ve never used buttonhole twist before, but I can’t wait to try it out.


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Amity was so sweet – before I had to leave the group to get my train back to Boston, she gave me a copy of her Sugar Plum sewing pattern!!  I was really touched, and can’t wait to try it out – I’ve never sewn Lolita Patterns before, and I love this blouse-and-skirt-as-dress combo.

I also got to meet Norma from Orange Lingerie this weekend – so funny that we both live in the same area and finally got to meet for the first time in NYC.  Can’t wait to go fabric shopping together soon out my way!


Bye bye, NYC! See you next week

On the train back home to Boston

I wish I could have stayed for the whole weekend, but the nice thing about my job is that I get to visit NYC a lot.  I can’t wait to meet up with everyone again soon – they really are just as you think they would be in real life!  So nice, and I feel like I made some new friends this weekend.

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This Weekend: Vogue Knitting Live NYC


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It’s that time of year again: Vogue Knitting Live is in New York City this weekend and I’m finally going.  Since VKLive started in 2011, I’ve wanted to go so badly but it never seemed to coincide with time I could take off from work.  Fortunately, I can go this year, and my sister and I are going to geek it up at the marketplace and hopefully get to check out the fashion show.  Maybe next year we’ll take a class but for this year, we just want to check it out and see what it’s all about.

Of course, this means I have to plan what I’m going to wear to the show!  I just cast off on my Owls sweater the other night and found some buttons for eyes.


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As I knit my owl cables, I placed markers on two of the owls that I wanted to have eyes so it’d be easy to sew them in the correct place.  I felt that having eyes on all of the owls would make it, well, a little too sweet and twee; I like the hint of owl that the cables evoke around the yoke of the sweater.  And I’m putting eyes on two because, you know, I didn’t want one of them to be lonely!

I’m bringing my camera to the show (not sure about my DSLR, maybe just my Point-and-Shoot) and taking lots of pics this weekend.  Plus, we’re hitting up the Garment District to stock up on some more fabric!  It’s going to be a fun-filled crafty weekend with the big sis.

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