Generally speaking, women’s sewing patterns (and clothing) are designed for someone with a perfect B cup. Now that is great if you are a perfect B cup. But some of us are “curvier” and some of us are understanding the force of gravity. So, for the rest of us that don’t have a perky perfect size . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Shirley Adams and Adjusting the Bust Dart
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I owe a lot of my sewing ability to Nancy Zieman, of Sewing with Nancy fame. I’d religiously watch it on WHYY (Philadelphia’s public television station) every Saturday afternoon in the late 80′s and early 90′s (sadly, I had to give it up when grad school got in the way of my television viewing pleasure). Since . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Sew What’s New In my podcast, yesterday, I mentioned that I met my dress form and named her Joan. I also mentioned that even though she is a “perfect size 8,” she doesn’t look like any size 8 person I know. Even if I were size 8, using Joan for fitting my garments would be futile endeavor. They would . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Duct Tape Double Els from Sewing Divas has ruined my life. Okay, not really. The other day, she showcased a Chanel dress and fabric on her blog and then casually mentioned a documentary from several years ago called Signe’ Chanel that is available in parts on You Tube. I am now obsessed with this documentary (I’ve only had time . . . → Read More: Thursday Theatrics: Signe’ Chanel In yesterday’s podcast, I mentioned that I was supposed to use a felled seam for the sleeve/armhole seam but that the instructions confused me and I clipped off the wrong seam allowance. I decided to do a little research on this topic and this is what I’ve found: If you’re not sure what a flat felled seam . . . → Read More: Thursday Theatrics: Sewing a Flat Felled Seam One day, during my UCLA days, I was helping My Honey with the laundry (yes, he has been the main launderer in our home since my grad school days) when I noticed that one of his work shirts only had something like two buttons on it. He was using safety pins to hold it together! Well, . . . → Read More: Thursday Theatrics: The Zen of Mending |
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