I love spending time with my family, and going on walks that turn into hikes, but my next love is SEWING! I became seriously addicted to sewing in the 70’s!
My Aunt was a trained seamstress in Hungary and my Mom always had a sewing machine on the dining room table. My Aunt could make an evening dress out of a pile of fabric, without a pattern, and my Mom was thrifty, mending an old garment to make it new again or repurposing an item. I have always been surrounded by sewing projects. My Aunt and Mom inspired me and taught me how to sew at a young age. I remember sewing Barbie clothes in elementary school and my own clothes in middle school. My happiest moment was designing and sewing my own wedding dress.
I have been blogging at Nice dress! Thanks, I made it!! since 2013, when I discovered this wonderful online sewing community!
In 2015, I started my ready-to-wear fast, no more store bought! That inspired me to create and organize our annual #designindecember Sewing Challenge. Won’t you join us in this Challenge!
In 2018, I decided to add hand bags to my #memade list and opened my sewing pattern Shop, Lányos Handmade. Soon after that, in 2020, I started my YouTube channel, Lányos Handmade, to help you in your bag making journey!
Lányos Handmade would like to send out a special “Thank you” to all its Pattern Testers who work so hard and diligently to check every “left/right” and “period/comma” are in the correct place, and everything makes sense!
I have a collection of sewing machines that I can’t seem to part with… two toy Vintage Sewing Machines (a Necchi and a Singer) and five VSM’s: Maria the Ford deLuxe (she still needs to be cleaned up), Winnie the Singer 221 Featherweight, Amber the Singer 421G, Barbie the Singer 500 and Ilona the Singer 15-88. Ilona lost her treadle cabinet, but is equipped with a hand crank, so she is roaring to SEW!
I also have a few domestic sewing machines: a Janome HD3000, a Janome MC8200QCP SE (both great for bag-making) and a serger, Janome MyLock 334.
I switch between these machines to create my sewing patterns.
Every year Lányos Handmade donates 10% of all proceeds to the ALS Society of British Columbia, for patient support and research, plus all sales proceeds from the Luxe II Laptop Case here. Thank you for your support!
Don’t forget … Nice dress! Thanks, I made it!! is the home of the DESIGNIN’ DECEMBER Sewing Challenge! Won’t you join us?
Thank you very much for your support and for reading and commenting on my blog!
#lanyoshandmade #nicedressthanksimadeit #designindecember
Before you go, let me introduce you to my apprentices, Simon and Sophie! (Edited: Sadly, Simon passed away January 11, 2022. A good buddy that will always be remembered.)
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Your Necchi is my favourite. I’ve never seen one up close.
It is pretty, isn’t it! 🙂 Make sure you post this comment in my friend’s FaceBook group today! They are having a Lányos Handmade pattern giveaway there! Lányos Handmade is sponsoring Day ten of the “Fortnight of Fun” I wouldn’t want you to miss out! :)https://www.facebook.com/groups/647643600468828/
Just found your blog, and I really like it. I too started sewing as a kid (9) and like you I don’t have sewing buddies to talk shop with. My husband says sewing makes him sleepy lol. But I have been studying sewing and crafts for decades and totally addicted to textiles, techniques and up cycling. I just hate when something “looks up cycled”. I’m a huge fan of couture and quality and really try to give my items “polish”. I also live in a more rural area (Pennsylvania) and so classes are a hassle to find, plus YouTube provides and it’s free, yay! Anytime you want to talk shop shoot me a line. Can’t wait to read the rest of your blog.
Hello! Thanks for the compliment and the follow. I just went over to take a look at your’s and I like it. I’m following you too so I don’t miss anything. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for following my blog (and finding me on Instagram)! I can’t wait to check yours out. I laughed when I read about your Barbie school project. I once made a Ken doll into a mummy! Looking forward to “meeting” you through your posts. 🙂
Oh so cool! I would have loved to have made a Ken Mummy Doll! He could have chased after my Queen Elizabeth Barbie! 😂
My mom has a Janome Mylock 334D Serger that has never been used and is still in the box. She’s trying to sell it and doesn’t know for how much and it will need to be oiled. I was wondering what you would recommend since it’s probably over 20 years old. I just hope that someone can be able to use it ….Thanks…..Glenn :>) Nanaimo, B.C., Canada
A 334D is a step up from mine. Try checking out “Used Victoria” or “Used Nanaimo” to see what others are selling their machines for. I did just find one ad now on Used Victoria for a Janome MyLock 334D serger that said “…in excellent condition. Bought new at Sawyer Sewing centre and maybe used it 15 times. Paid over $700. Will include lots of spools of thread too. $325.” So that can give you an idea of the sale price. Put it on Used Nanaimo and see if you get any interest.
Hi Linda,
You won the sewing feet! So can you email me your postal address to xxxxxx please.
Thanks!
Hila
Thank you very much! I will.
Hi! I just found your lovely blog and had to read 1000 things….it’s been a long time, but I’ve done some of them….I was once a wiz with bound buttonholes. Don’t ask me why, just always loved them. Will be reading more of course, but wanted to greet you and let you know I’m now following!
Thank you for saying Hello and the compliments. I have done welt pockets with some success, but not yet bound buttonholes – they strike me as similar though? I have checked out your blog and am following you too. Look forward to reading you!