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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Hello! I have been reading your blog for a while however (like above) thought I would say a proper hello 🙂
Hello! So nice of you to introduce yourself! I always look forward to talking to people about sewing and such!
Hello there! I just chanced upon your blog and I just want to say hello.
Well hello to you too! I hope you can join in on the conversation sometime! Looks like you have a blog too. I shall go take a peek!
You are Nominated again!! Thanks for doing so. I truly appreciate your expertise here as I learn. ( How do I get the PIN on my site as a button…lol Help)
UtaC
Do you mean the PIN IT red and white button about your LIKE button? On my IPAD, which I am using now, it is in MENU, under Settings, and under Sharing. It is one of the enabled services. Then it has a bunch of questions about what you want to share with and how you want to share. I learned how to do it by Googling “how to get a PIN it button on my wordpress blog”. It’s amazing what you can learn about by googling it! Thank you for the kind words, by the way!
Hi Linda, I’ve nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award because I love reading you blog 🙂
You can find more information here: https://creepingthyme.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/one-lovely-blog/
Thank you! I love reading your’s too – your knitting especially is quite lovely! I shall go take a look at the information.
awesome! Thank you so much!
question. I was given a my home 334d and it did not come with a manual. I have been trying to get the rolled hem setting perfect and its not happening. Can you share the perfect rolled hem setting for this machine please?? TYIA!
Hello! At the moment I’m sitting here rushing through my lunch before I have to go back to work, thinking isn’t there something interesting that I could be doing right now – so I read sewing blogs and I come across your question! I would be happy to help, but I usually only post on Friday night or Saturday morning, so it will have to wait until then, so sorry! But I will see if I can get some photos together, or something, for the weekend post! Thanks for reading/commenting!
Hi There
I love your blog and I am nominating you for the Liebster Award. Please see my blog for the rules. I will have the nominations and questions posted today.
Cheers!
Thank you very much!
I know this has nothing to do with reading books, hardcover or paperbacks, on the treadmill, but I tried to hold puny little dumbbells while walking on the treadmill…almost killed myself. Moral of the story, don’t do anything on the treadmill but watch TV!
Don’t even blink! My eyes were tired this last week so I tried closing them while walking on the treadmill, glad I was holding on because it could have been really, really bad!
OH OH, I’d say it’s time to give the treadmill a rest!
Hi there,
you try to read novels while on the treadmill? I do too – haha, never really works, does it?!
Well it was pointless with pocket books, even if I propped them up on the treadmill console… And it was difficult with hardcover books too… No matter what I tried either the book or I would fly off the treadmill! Now I prop my e-reader on the console and I do a bit better. I just have to make the font HUGE so I can see it when I was jogging! Trying to read sure makes the time fly though!
try audio books on tape
Good idea!