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Preparing Coat Fabric: Prewashing, Preshrinking, Pre-Steaming?

Preparing Coat Fabric: Prewashing, Preshrinking, Pre-Steaming?

By on October 5, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

How do you prepare coat fabric? I’m talking about wool or wool-blend coating fabrics, like the coating I’m using for the Seventies Wrap Coat. Do you pre-wash them? If you’re planning to dry-clean the finished garment, do you pre-dryclean them? I usually pre-steam my fabrics. I steam the heck out of them and hope for [...]

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What Do You Do with Used Muslins?

By on October 4, 2011 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Here’s a good question that Melissa M asked in the comments a while back: what do you do with used muslins? I feel like I may have already talked about this, but maybe just in the comments and it never made it to a real post. So let’s talk muslins! Used muslins, that is. What [...]

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Wrap Coat: Fabulous Even in Muslin!

Wrap Coat: Fabulous Even in Muslin!

By on October 3, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

Yay! The Seventies Wrap Coat is done in muslin, and it’s just as fabulous as I hoped it would be. Don’t let the strange facial expressions in today’s photos confuse you, I love this coat! One of the easiest ways to tell if you’re going to like the finished garment is to see how you [...]

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Coat Progress, Barely

Coat Progress, Barely

By on September 27, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

Hey, everyone! Happy Monday! What, it’s not Monday? I’m kidding, I know what day it is. Did you miss me yesterday? Sorry I didn’t get a post up! It was a busy weekend here at Sewaholic Patterns headquarters and while I didn’t run out of time, I ran out of energy. Hard to believe, I [...]

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How to Fix Pooling Fabric at Lower Back

How to Fix Pooling Fabric at Lower Back

By on July 19, 2011 in Projects, Tips, Work in Progress

On the Strictly Ballroom Dress, on both on me and on the dress form, there’s a tiny bit of fabric pooling at the lower back. It would be okay if I left it, but so much better if I fix it up! Here’s what I did to make this adjustment. There are a lot of [...]

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Next Up: Strictly Ballroom Dress

Next Up: Strictly Ballroom Dress

By on July 15, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

Remember this dress pattern? It’s a Vintage Vogue reissue from 1943, and my next sewing project! Among the Lonsdale Dresses I’m going to make this summer, I wanted a chance of pace and a challenge – and this dress was exactly what I was looking for! Since it’s looking like fall weather most days, I [...]

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