Gutsy Moves: Inside Sally’s Stripes
After all the fabric was cut and underlined for Sally’s asymmetrical striped custom wedding dress, it was finally time for construction. I love being able to see all the guts of the garment before the lining is added for a beautiful clean finish. Don’t you? While it is impossible for stripes to match everywhere in a fitted […]
Cutting and Underlining Sally’s Stripes
After our two mockup fittings, I was finally ready to start cutting and preparing Sally’s custom wedding dress fabrics! During our design process, we spent a lot of time searching for the perfect stripe. We finally found a silk organza with the exact width of stripe that Sally was looking for. It had a solid […]
Underlining feature in Seamwork (and two students blog about Skirt Skills)
The internet sure has been speaking my name this week! Not only am I featured in a kick-ass online sewing magazine, two bloggers published posts about working with me in my custom sewing eCourse! First, I wrote a new article for Seamwork Magazine that was published in the December issue! If you recall my previous […]
Erin’s Unusual Underlining
Having flashbacks of Lila Rose’s custom wedding dress? Contrary to how it looks in these photos, I am not making another hot pink wedding dress. So what’s this color all about? Underlining to change a fabric’s color If you remember from Erin’s design consultation, we both fell in love with a white-on-white seersucker for her summer […]
Sewing Technique Spotlight: Underlining (pt. 3)
Today’s post is the 3rd in a short series on underlining! I get a lot of questions about underlining, so I finally decided to start dispelling the myths. In the first post in this series, I talked a lot about what the sewing technique of underlining is, why you might underline a garment, and offered […]
Sewing Technique Spotlight: Underlining (pt. 2)
In part 1 of this blog series, I shared what the sewing technique called underlining is, what underlining does, and I even offered some fabric suggestions for underlining a garment. My favorite underlining fabric is muslin. In this post, I’ll talk a little about why I like to use muslin as underlining and I’ll share a […]
Sewing Technique Spotlight: Underlining (pt.1)
Have you ever wondered if there is an easy way to make your handmade garments look professional instead of home-made? A sewing technique called underlining might be the answer. It is often an ah-ha moment when someone finally grasps the concept and value of underlining, which is quite possibly my all-time-favorite go-to technique. Underlining is a […]
My Dress for Loula’s Wedding (pt. 2- Draft to Dancefloor)
Yes, I got to wear a wrist corsage! This is the second post about the creation of the dress that I wore to Loula’s wedding, shown above with my handsome husband Charles. It’s an asymmetrical color-blocked wool sateen pencil dress. You can see the inspirations and learn about the pattern drafting in my previous post. Caught […]
Underlining: The Couturier’s Friend
Underlining! If there is one step that takes a garment from homemade to couture, it is underlining. If you sew and don’t know about underlining, once you try it you’ll see that it makes all the difference in the world in your quality. Underlining is often also known as flat lining, interlining, or innerlining. Not […]