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What a week!! I’ve been working full time (🙏 so good) and working on the website in my downtime. Well I’m stoked to show you some frames from the temporary landing page. Check it out at Sewasaurus dot com and let me know what you think? I’m still designing some frames about machine maintenance and classes. More to come! Peace out and Get in we’re doing button stuff.

Sewasaurus UPDATE! We are making strides on the interior of the shop. Buying furniture at thrift shops and Facebook marketplace. And building what we can’t buy.

Huge day today is Sewasaurusville. We removed and picked up an entire quilting studio and brought it to the warehouse. Such a huge difference! I can start to see the workroom coming together. This area will be a member workshop- so if you have needed a space to sew and create come on by!! (Once we are open 😉) I’m already thinking of all the puppets I can build in there.

Thoughts and feelings about the store. Floors are clean, weeds are wacked and we are starting to load in our furniture and fabrics. This is real! This is real? This. Is. Real.

Hey y’all, I’ve decided it’s finally time to make a little intro video to express to you what I’m trying to do here with Sewasaurus. #sewing #learntosewLA

We took another run of fabric to the shop. I’m slowly getting all of the furniture and merchandise we’ve collected over to the shop. Big shelves and such are next.

We went out to the desert to pick up furniture for the shop. The light in the house was too pretty for words. And somehow these vignettes are all vibes.

I finally cleaned my beautiful vintage Bernina 830. It’s been a long time coming. So many puppets, costumes and repairs since the last maintenance! Ahhhh the shame of it all. 😱. Time to get a cleaning in before we start loading into our store.

There are multiple bobbin sizes for machines- Brother machines, Singer, Pfaff… all use slightly different bobbins. My mother gave me a collection of bobbins that were unsorted and, in order to get them identified, I needed a way to size them. In comes the Wawak bobbin guide. So much easier to hold the bobbin up to the chart to figure the size. Now my bobbin bin makes so much more sense!

Here are some glamour shots from today. I started cleaning her up this afternoon. Opened up the gear box and whoa Nellie she was a hot mess. Crammed full of grease. It looked like a melted peanut butter cup in there. After a couple blue shop towels and dental tools- it’s squeaky clean. Can’t wait to move to the needle bar and motor next.

Rex is coming along nicely. Pins on his fin are next. Then I need to figure out what the background will be. I think oranges and pinks would be nice. Like a crazy quilt?

I’ve started a project to help me procrastinate and not get anything that I need done. But hey- it’s cute and I’m having fun. I sketched Rex on some cotton and had to use my embroidery machine hoop, as it was the only hoop of that size I could find. Color matching wasn’t quite right but I think it’s gonna be fine. (That’s what I telling the little perfectionist gremlin hiding in my brain)

Just got home from a dash to an estate sale. I’m hungry and dirty but I got this cute FreeWestinghouse. It’s not seized up. Will likely need to rewire it. But I’m excited to do my first antique restoration. #Sewingmachine #restorationproject

Good Morning Y’all and I hope you are having the day that you need. I wanted to introduce myself to you. I am Miss Andy- I am the owner of of Sewasaurus. We will be opening this summer (hopefully) in Glassell Park. I look forward to meeting you!

Like many of my ideas this one came to me from left field. I have a ton of this lime fur, scored from a deadstock warehouse in LA, and had been itching to make a monster. Then I found a black fanny pack in my studio- I think someone left it in our camp at Burning Man. 💥 BAM💥 monster fanny pack was born. Once we get the studio put together I hope to make more of these fun lil friends.

Learn about us..

Miss andy

Back then my projects were tiny clothing for Barbies eventually progressing to over-the-top drag costumes, up-cycled clothing and building a small family of puppets in my tiny NYC dorm room.

When I was about 8 years old my mother taught her how to use a sewing machine. She told me it was like driving a car, and for an 8 year old that was pretty epic. I was hooked.

Now, after working 20 years in the television industry, it’s time to start the next chapter. I’m turning my passion for fashion and whimsy into Sewasaurus, a home for dreamers and doers.