Creative Clothing Inspiration - Clothing Kits & Ideas
Wearable projects are our passion - especially clothes that feature easy to sew patterns in beautiful, high-quality fabrics. For clothing, we stock linens, rayons, woolens, tencel, denims, cottons and flannels. On this page you'll sometimes find Clothing Kits, but you'll always find sample garments highlighting the many sample clothing garments we've made with some of our favorite clothing patterns and fabrics. The patterns we've used in our samples are available on this page. You'll fnd many more of our favorite and most versatile patterns on our Wearable Patterns page. Children's Clothing Patterns are featured on their own page. We even have "wearable" projects in the form of purses. Visit our Neat Stuff to Make page for quite a few options in purses and tote bags.

Children's Clothing Ideas
These sample garments show off a new children's pattern line we've found - Portabellopixies. Their fresh and creative styling has been a real hit with our customers.

You'll find more on this pattern line on our new Children's Clothing Patterns page. If you have any excuse to sew for a little girl, you'll want to see these adorable patterns.

Linen Rayon Garment Ideas
The Torii Jacket and the Capitola Pants work great together, especially in the wonderful machine washable and dryable 55% linen/ 45% rayon fabric shown in this sample. We offer the brown striped fabric below, but no longer have the toile used in the jacket.

Just pre-wash these fabrics in warm water and dry with a sheet of Bounce in the dryer. After that, the completed garment will be washable using the same methods.

These patterns, The Torii Jacket and the Capitola pants are shown in detail on our Wearable Patterns page, but we offer them here also.

The Capitola Pants were made from the Brown, Natural and Blue Stripe machine washable Linen/Rayon, shown below. This fabric is 54" wide and sells for $22.98/yard. It requires 2 3/4 yards for all sizes.

Sherpa Jacket
The extra cold temperatures in Texas this year make us very glad that we still carry these wonderful Sueded Sherpa fabrics. The Sueded Sherpa ($29.98 per yard) is a double sided fabric that is 60" wide.  You can toss it in the washer and dryer.  The fabric comes in several color options, which are all offered below: brown/brown, black/black, natural/natural, red/red as well as two-tone options: green/beige, black/gray and brown/natural.

We've used this fabric for several years to make a Sherpa Vest using The Cardigan Jacket pattern, but this year we've made it into jackets using Kwik Sew pattern # 3358 ($11.98), designed specifically for the Sueded Sherpa fabric. Our sample Kwik Sew 3358 Sherpa Jacket, pictured left, took only about 3 hours to complete. The pattern includes sizes XS - XL.

This fabric would also make a great "throw"- just purchase 2 yards, turn the sherpa side to the suede side about 2" and edge stitch.  If you use your walking foot while sewing as well as a longer stitch length, you will have no probem in sewing with this fabric.