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Dear Friends, In today’s lesson, I show you how to take correct measurements so that your pattern will fit you perfectly! My sister, Jill, agreed to be my model and my mom was there, too, so she was my camera woman. And, as you will soon see/hear, Baby Alice was involved in the filming, too, . . . → Read More: Drafting Skirt Pattern Sew-Along Lesson Two: Measuring (w/video)  3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Design School, How to Videos, Pattern Drafting, Projects  measuring, pattern drafting
One of my very favorite fabrics to use is rayon. I love the feel and drape of it. On the Sewing Circle email list, I would smugly talk about how I only use natural fabrics such as cotton, silk, and rayon. The only problem is that I found out a couple of years ago that . . . → Read More: What Do Artificial Silk and Bombs Have In Common?
Dear Friends, Welcome to our “sew along” where you will learn how to draft a skirt pattern that fits you perfectly! I created a video where I describe the tools you will need but I had to talk fast (at least fast for me), I thought I’d include pictures and a couple of my . . . → Read More: Drafting Skirt Pattern Sew-Along Lesson One: Tools (w/ Video) 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Design School, Pattern Drafting, Videos pattern making tools for home sewists, Sloper
Dear Friends, Making bias tape can result in a lot of fabric that is wasted when it is cut flat on the bias (unless you want lots of little seam allowances). Then someone devised a method where you create an offset tube. I don’t know about you, but I was never quite satisfied with my . . . → Read More: No Waste Bias Tape Tutorial Dear Friends, The first time I saw a picked zipper was 20+ years ago when I was a special education teacher in New Jersey. One of the paraprofessionals (they were still called teacher’s assistants back then) was making a prom dress for her daughter and was hand sewing in the zipper! I thought she was . . . → Read More: Today’s Homework: Pickstitch Zipper 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Design School, Hand Stitches, hand stitching, Tutorials Picked Zipper Tutorial
Dear Friends, I am heading into the homestretch for the semester. In the Intro to Fashion Design, our students have learned almost all of the basic skills and are drafting their skirt patterns. I keep taking my camera with me but forget to take photos. Susan Lee was still in the fashion lab working at . . . → Read More: Heading for the Homestretch When buying pattern and fabric, consider one in relation to the other: is the fabric right for the design, or the design right for the fabric? Also, are both design and fabric right for one’s figure type? There is a wide assortment of patterns and fabrics for every type. Keep in mind that vertical lines . . . → Read More: Singer Dressmaking Course: Is The Fabric Right for the Design? Dear Friends, Reality has hit: I will not be able to make the Vionnet-inspired cocktail dress the way I had hoped without too much fussing and futzing for a 1-credit class and a garment I will never be able to wear. What happened: Last Saturday morning, I sat with eight other ladies around Nancy’s dining . . . → Read More: Now: More Inspired By Reality Than Vionnet One comment - (Comments are closed) Design School, Projects Madeleine Vionnet Inspired Cocktail Dress
Dear Friends, One of the things I love about the couture class is that we’re making so many different samples of various techniques. The samples provide just enough practice so that we get the general idea but they don’t take for–ev–er to complete. Because of car troubles (I couldn’t get the car to turn OFF! . . . → Read More: Today’s Homework: Lace Appliqué Dear Friends, Image courtesy of gd-wholesale.dom (texindex.com.cn shown in the corner is in Chinese) In my couture class, we had to choose a fabric and then describe the characteristics of it and strategies for how to sew it. Our professor gave us the template to complete so that the information would be uniform. On . . . → Read More: My Fabric Information Assignment |
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