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…
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Designing My Warmup Jacket
Learn how Yves St Laurent, Eddie Murphy, Threads Magazine, Starry Nights and Neon Lights helped me design myself a garment that I didn’t see coming…
Figuring Out Fabrics by Designing Digitally
Welcome to a somewhat meandering story of three custom garments! This blog post loosely threads between my previous tutorial post on creating custom croquis, a…
How To Create Custom Sketching Croquis from Photos
A version of this blog post was published in Threads Magazine Issue #228 Winter 2024. It’s early 2010. Michelle, my very first custom bridalwear client,…
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…
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…
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New Bridal Blog Series: Tiffany!
The bridal blog series is back! In each bridal blog series, you meet a new bride and I slowly post-by-post recount the process and share…
Choosing and Prepping Deborah’s Fabrics
After working our way through 3 fittings of mockup dresses, it was time to finalize our fabric decisions for the real thing: Deborah’s custom wedding dress!…
Deborah’s Design Consultation and Wedding Dress Sketches
The Design Consultation A week or so after meeting Deborah and reading through her questionnaire, we met again for our Design Consultation. The Design Consultation…