Category Archives: LIFE LOVERS

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   I’m Sarah Kirsten. I live on a small farm in the Midwest and like to sew. I grew up in a family with parents who are a bit eccentric. I’m the youngest of 7 kids, they homeschooled all of us, built our house by hand…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   I am a blogger and sewing influencer on Instagram. I create handmade pieces according to my aesthetic and my husband snaps photos along the way to capture it all. Why do you sew? When I got married I went through a state of self awareness…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Brooke Anderson and I live in Portland, OR with my pup, Leia, and partner, Emiliano. I work for a local underwear company called Thunderpants USA as the Operations and Marketing Coordinator – all the underwear is made here in the USA with certified organic…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.  I’m Karlie Theuerkauf and I recently just started my sewing journey. I would consider myself to be a “confident” beginner as I’m new to the garment-making world but I’m definitely up for a sewing challenge! I recently got married in Alaska! My husband is a fifth generation…

I am crazy for a good dress. Especially one with buttons going down along the front. The Loren pattern is going to be a fave in my closet. When I received it the first thing I did was pull out all my vintage buttons to put against the beautiful Firecracker Red linen I got. This…

Whilst preparing the interviews for Curated by You, one name, or rather one pattern kept popping up- namely the Zadie Jumpsuit. This prompted me to do a little research , and I was rather thrilled to find out that not only was Tara Viggo living in London as am I, but we happen to share…

“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” Toni Morrison There is a quiet, gentle determination wrapped up in beauty of the present, amongst her children and husband, that resides in the aura of Nastasia Morris. In her, gratitude for…

‘I’m an optimist. Because what’s the point of the alternative?’ Patti Smith What makes for an admiration is to encounter a person with harmony within. A quiet yet determined sense of achievement, not only in the realms of a career, but as a mother, a wife, an active member of her community, and an inspiration…

My love for linen and it’s many characteristics are unmatched! When I got the beautiful PEBBLE linen in the mail along with the Akira pattern I was ecstatic. First off, I was amazed by the beauty of the packaging. The pattern is so well put together and clear to understand. I especially love that the…

“…it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. …” Mary Oliver It is also a serious thing to recognise the tools we have at hand to overcome hardship, stress, depression, sadness, loneliness to name a few. For everyone it is their own, for your neighbour it…

I’ve always gravitate towards pieces that are easy to wear, and breezy to fit the Los Angeles weather. Linen is absolutely my favorite fabric to work with because of that reason. On top of that, linen is also a very approachable fabric for beginners, which I still consider myself to be, since it is a…

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb In Buddhist tradition it is believed that it is the mind that creates the illusion of separateness, but once the state of enlightenment is reached within an individual, the fog of illusion lifts and one is able…

Justice McNeil is the epitome of a modern renaissance woman. She paints, sings, sews, holds down a job she loves, looks after her cats and plants and plays the ukulele. Unlike the belief that you ought to take sides on whether you are for nature or technology, perhaps today where the most exciting change is…

When I first encountered Christina Alexander, what came to mind is a quote from Angela Duckworth’s book : Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success: “…there are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time -longer than most people imagine…Grit is about working on something you…

“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” Mother Teresa Most of my grandmother’s contemporaries knew how to sew, knit and mend a pair of trousers, there was minimum waste as almost anything from a piece of wire to an old jacket would be reused over and over again, the…