Vanishing Tie – Patternmaking & Mockup
Welcome to Part Two! I’m back to share the nerdy behind-the-seams details of creating my Vanishing Tie Top for the Precious Fabric Challenge. But this…
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Vanishing Tie Top: Inspiration & Sketching
Do you have a fabric that you’ve been SAVING instead of SEWING? Yeah. Me too. So when Whitney Luckenbill of TomKat Stitchery asked me to…
Patterning My Warmup Jacket – Pt 1 & 2
In this second post of My Warmup Jacket series, I share the behind-the-seams details of my jacket’s patternmaking and mockup stories! And after putting this…
My Sewing Story Pt 3: Entrepreneur
If you are new to this series, start here with Pt 1: Academics. Otherwise… Welcome back! Let’s pick up my sewing story 15 years ago…
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A veil for Jenn’s photoshoot with People
My previous post in Jenn’s bridalwear blog series shared the basted fitting of her rehearsal day top held at Workroom Social in Brooklyn in September 2019.…
Jenn’s Sketches to Second Mockup
During the process of working with my friend Jenn to create custom bridal millinery and transform her mom’s wedding dress into a rehearsal dinner top, the…
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Duplicating the Vintage Dress’s Pattern (without taking it apart)
In my previous post, I introduced Jenn and the custom bridal wear project(s) for her wedding weekend. Check out the full story for all the…
I Made Myself the Coolest Dress pt. 1 – Pattern Design & Mockup
Though my personal wardrobe is mostly “the dressmaker has no clothes”, when I do make something for myself, it’s usually an epic project. I’m so…
Tiffany’s First Mockup Fitting (and Pattern Corrections)!
The very first fitting is always a fun part of the custom process. The dress the bride tries on in a first fitting is not…