Alabama chanin

I caught Bella in her newest jersey dress. This is the Alabama Chanin six-gore favorite, tweaked for Bella's preferred fit (custom bust ...

This is the simple six-gore tank dress from Alabama Studio Style . Made up in Alabama Chanin cotton jersey in a single layer. The ...

. For this project, you'll need two t-shirts. I chose grey and green. They can have holes in them...we can work around that! (See my ...

Summer is here and work has finished so it’s time to do some slow sewing, sit in my deckchair in the garden and hand stitch some new Alabama Chanins. For my birthday in June I received the la…

I have been bitten by the Alabama bug. Like many other similarly obsessed artisans, I have taken up my needle and thread and I am slowly sewing some tops out of recycled t-shirts. This new hand stitched clothing project began after I treated myself to the Alabama Studio Sewing & Design book. I have been wanting to purchase one (ALL) of the Alabama Stitch books for a while, but I could never decide on which one to get because I like all the patterns equally. The only reason I got the 3rd book…

Recently I reviewed the great new book by Natalie Chanin, Alabama Studio Style, which got…

Four ways to apply the Alabama Chanin techniques for mending and upcycling clothes.

I've been wanting to post pictures for a while now. Here they finally are. This top is super comfortable and flattering. I thought I was going to do a bunch of embroidery, but I was undecided about what and how much, so I stopped after stitching the first stem. I left the stitching because it tells me which side is the front. Otherwise I really wouldn't be able to tell because the pattern pieces are very similar. I am bustier than my form, so on my the shoulder seam pulls to the front. Next…

I finished this project just before we set off for Summer travels and I am just delighted now that autumn is approaching to have it ready and waiting for the cooler days ahead. I’m a little bit in catch up mode with journal postings so you may have seen this on instagram a few weeks ago, but I wante

Wow, a whole week since I posted! Over the course of that week, I spent the majority of my free time - about 15 hours altogether - and yesterday completed my Alabama Scout! I know there are a few of you who were interested in the construction of a garment like this, so I was good and remembered to take photos while I was sewing the top together. A LOT of photos! A few of these have been shared on Instagram over the last couple days, but most are new. Each day this week, I spent approximately…