About

Welcome! My name is Debbie and I'm a Mum, teacher, blogger, and a pattern designer and seamstress who turned her dream of sewing and blogging into a business. By day, I teach, and on nights and weekends, I am a feverish stitcher; designing, constructing, drafting or altering my next project. Both professions are all-consuming but so much fun.
As a teenager, I learned to sew and this started my enjoyment and love of design. I became passionate about the problem solving that went into constructing clothes, and I began sewing every day.
In 2011 I began blogging about sewing at Grace and discovered the amazing online sewing community. In 2014 I set up my own pattern company Muse Attire Patterns.  In 2016 this left me in a quandary:
Problem: I had two blogs and didn't want to loose either.
Solution: keep Grace to chronicle my experiences as a home seamstress whilst Muse focuses on my professional work and provides resources for customers.
Posts common to both Muse and Grace:
Tutorials and sewalongs
Posts exclusive to Muse:
Fashion trends, fashion illustration and design processes.
Posts exclusive to Grace:
Retro and vintage sewing, knitting and books.
A mixture of everything will be on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
This whole journey began because, through sewing, I discovered the wonderful community of creative women on-line, being a part of that really appealed to me. This crafting collective seemed to speak to women who live what I call “interesting but ordinary lives.”Women (like me) who are not famous or celebrities but are smart, creative, fashion forward, thoughtful, engaged, related and most importantly clear and comfortable with who they are..
She Is The Woman Who…
Loves to imagine
Does not consume garments, she lives her life in them and dresses honestly
Has original style without being eccentric
Sews garments that allow her to be the self she is and the self that is always becoming
Likes special, carefully crafted and unique clothing
Has the strength not to be part of a group even while she is delightedly part of a group(s)
Has a life that is lived in neighborhoods, workplaces and with families and friends
Walks the fine line between rebellion and convention because she has to
Is becoming increasingly experimental
Relishes the fully lived life
Repudiates invisibility
Has unfinished business
If you are "A Woman Who"… I invite you to share with me the pleasures and passions of everyday life and sewing.
Please don't be shy; use the comments to share your suggestions, thoughts and questions. I'd love to hear from you and I bet other stitchers would too. Happy sewing!

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