March 2014 - Sempstress

Blouse Draft 4: All-In-One Collar

Collar and undercollar, if you want to get all technical about it. These pieces will be truly drafted, which is exciting! The first thing we…

At the start of the class, we decided that a short poofy sleeve would be cuter than the long one in the original sample picture,…

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Easing is slightly shrinking a seam allowance. It’s often done to sleeves. This is because the human body continues to curve out at the top…

This is going to be a short one: we need to turn our blouse front into a front with a button placket. A placket is…

I love piped seams. It’s the costumer in me. The trouble is that piping can get expensive, but making your own is super-cheap and easy…

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Over the last two weeks, we’ve been working on a blouse pattern in half scale. Then I caught a cold, and fell behind on posting.…

Let’s be honest – most of us aren’t buying jeans at a price point where we’re going to see a real flat-felled seam. It’s a…

This is the classic seam associated with denim, particularly when it comes to jeans. It’s really deceptively easy to do. (It does help if you…

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I dusted off my original denim test-tutu last week and did a little work on it, mostly because I was doing a talk on denim for…