This is going to be a short one: we need to turn our blouse front into a front with a button placket. A placket is…
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I love piped seams. It’s the costumer in me. The trouble is that piping can get expensive, but making your own is super-cheap and easy…
4 CommentsOver the last two weeks, we’ve been working on a blouse pattern in half scale. Then I caught a cold, and fell behind on posting.…
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Let’s be honest – most of us aren’t buying jeans at a price point where we’re going to see a real flat-felled seam. It’s a…
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Not too long ago, we did up a sample of a simple vest with all-in-one facings. Here’s how to actually sew up a vest with…
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Once again, a sample has become a vest. (It’s funny how that happens the two weeks before we start to work on the real human-sized…
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We got saucy in class last week and decided to make something real out of our armscye princess line sample. (Samples are boring. We all…
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Another one for my students, but really, this can be done with any basic blouse pattern. You’ll end up with a terribly attractive little smock.…
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Last week my class worked up an armscye princess manipulation, then worked it farther into a vest with facing. I’m breaking this down into two…
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Once again, this is intended for my Flat Pattern students. If you are someone else’s student, do whatever your teacher tells you. This sample problem…
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