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Adventures in Patternmaking (and Stripes!)
Once the design was approved by the bride, I was ready to roll on Sally’s custom wedding dress! Finding the perfect stripe… Throughout our design…
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Creating Caitlin’s Custom Patterns and Mockups
Once Caitlin said “yes” to the dress… I invited her back to my studio to take some measurements. I take approximately 40 measurements of each…
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My Dress for Loula’s Wedding (pt. 1- Design and Draft)
Whenever I attend a wedding in which I made the bride’s dress, I always try to also make the dress that I am wearing. Inevitably,…
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The Loulage
In creating a wedding dress for someone I have known and loved for decades, I got to experiment with some things that I wouldn’t normally…
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Retrospective: The making of a dress, a blog & a business
Leah’s wedding dress was the first real wedding dress that I created for someone I did not already know. It’s funny to think of…
Pattern drafting for Lila Rose’s mockup dress
Now that I have my moulage and my custom dressform created using Lila Rose’s unique set of over 30 measurements, it is now time to…
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Creating a Body Double
Have I mentioned that I love pattern drafting? The first thing that a patternmaker needs to do after taking a full set of measurements is…
Is it true?
When drafting one-of-a-kind dress patterns, there are many ways to achieve a similar result. Each patternmaker develops his or her own preferred method. Working in…
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The Rough Stuff
Once Greta’s custom dress form was complete, I began to create what is called a rough drape. For my rough drape, I take inexpensive fabric…
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