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How To Underline A Dress Bodice

How To Underline A Dress Bodice

I knew underlining existed, but never understood the need for it unless you’re working with sheer fabrics. After reading Couture Sewing Techniques, I learned that most couture garments are underlined, but most aren’t lined! I was surprised – wouldn’t you rather line something and hide all of the construction details? It was an interesting and [...]

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Altering the Dress Bodice: Lengthen or Shorten Here!

Altering the Dress Bodice: Lengthen or Shorten Here!

Yesterday I made the bodice muslin, today I’m going to correct the pattern! I’ll spare you photos of me wearing the skirtless-dress muslin, because I only need to make minor fitting changes that are easy to explain. Here’s what I need to fix: 1. Add 1″ to the bodice length. When I had on the [...]

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How to make a muslin for a dress bodice

How to make a muslin for a dress bodice

I talked about some reasons why to make a muslin, and showed you the fabric and pattern – now I’m going to show you how! This is my method, there are many variations on muslin-making but here’s what I did. (You wanted to see the process – you got it!) Depending on the style of [...]

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This is what the muslin is for!

This is what the muslin is for!

Really interesting responses to yesterday’s post about muslins! A couple of you made excellent points about time. If you hardly get time to sew, who wants to spend it making test garments? Although, some of you put it differently – if you only have so much time to spend, you’d rather spend it knowing the [...]

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Heather’s Beautiful Dresses

Heather’s Beautiful Dresses

Here’s a story about how amazing the internet can be. It started with a simple question, and ends with me receiving these absolutely gorgeous 1950′s dress patterns! First, the patterns: Three beautiful 1950′s dresses! From left to right, Simplicity 1795, Simplicity 3965, Vogue 9114. The first dress on the left has the most fabulous dramatic [...]

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