This brand new website and this blog are under construction. Check back soon if you encounter anything weird. Hopefully all of the bugs will be worked out by the end of the week! I’m so excited!
- A Couture Sewing blog
This brand new website and this blog are under construction. Check back soon if you encounter anything weird. Hopefully all of the bugs will be worked out by the end of the week! I’m so excited!
I’m a former professional costumer and couture dressmaker for one-of-a-kind bridalwear located in rural North Carolina, who teaches custom garment sewing to sew-curious solo-sewists online.
My blog mostly follows along with the couture process of how each heirloom-quality custom wedding dress was made from idea to wedding day, as well as personal sewing projects and other couture curiosities.
All are Welcome (unless you are mean.)
Contrary to what you might think, I don’t have a lot of clothes and I tend to wear the same (old) things over and over. Almost all of my custom...
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 deets, but to catch you...
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 excited to finally share this...
I’ve been blogging for TEN YEARS now, ya’ll! In “My 10 Year Blogiversary pt. 1”, I share links to each bridal blog series that I’ve created over the past decade....
It’s finally time to share about Deborah’s wedding day! HOORAY! Deborah and Blake were married in November 2017 at a church in Greensboro, NC with the reception at a nearby...
While crafting Deborah’s bodice, I also began crafting the skirt of her custom wedding dress! Her skirt was designed to have the loveliest deep pleats with gorgeous lace panels hidden...
Brooks Ann, Jenn, & Charles January 2017 Going Way Back… To begin my next bridal blog series, let’s head into the Way-Back Machine. And we’ll head farther back than this...
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 the behind-the-seams story of creating...
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 the behind-the-seams story of creating...
The bridal blog series is back! In each bridal blog series, I recount the process and share the behind-the-seams story of creating a one-of-a-kind custom couture wedding dress from start...
Sally is someone special. Back in December, I got an email from a dear friend named Sally that I had lost touch with. The subject line: “dear lord i’m getting...
As it starts to get cold, it sure is nice to think about summer! Gin and tonics… BLTs… beach trips… seersucker… Earlier this year, I worked with a bride who...
They say documenting the process triples the production time. (And I work more slowly than most.) My Nimbus was cold.She needed a new coat, sooner than later.
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Welcome to the 3rd and final post about my Vanishing Tie Top- and it’s a DOOZY! Follow along as I share 50+ photos and over a dozen video clips of...
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 photo-filled blog post doesn’t feature...
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 be a part of her...
Welcome to my (temporary) Sewing Studio! Come on in! I love seeing other people’s workspaces and tools, so I thought I’d show you mine. I cleaned up after a big...
Welcome back! It’s the series finale! In this third and final post of My Warmup Jacket series, I share the behind-the-seams details of my jacket’s construction and finishing stories!
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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 patterning post together (which was...
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…
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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 couple of my “Custom...
