Carson’s Questions the First Day of Class
2018-06-29
Carson’s list of questions the first day of sewing classes…Read More →
The Little Black Dress
2018-05-11
Let Simon Henry walk you through the process of drafting a block for your perfect Audry Hepburn moment. Read More →
I Know How to Sew, But I Have This Picture I Drew…
2018-04-04
We get a lot (dude. a LOT) of requests for first time projects up here. Sometimes there is an automatic veto, sometimes there is a warning or caveat, and sometimes we are ON BOARD from the start. This post is about one of the times we had no doubt. She came to us at first with just a rendering of the dress: We didn’t want to take the time to draft the sloper from scratch – it would have taken too long and eaten into our class time. She was more interested in using the sloper to rough out the shape and work on herRead More →
Tutorial: Giving a Fitted Straight Skirt Pattern Some Flair
2018-03-13
We’ve recently had a ton of students telling us that A. We don’t update the blog enough (and seeing as how we have 72 stored drafts in the draft folder, we’d be inclined to agree). and B. They want to know how to do specific stuff and want tutorials. So, to keep the revolutionaries in check and anarchy at bay, here is our first update in a while to walk you through turning a straight skirt pattern into a flared pattern. A little shout-out to Sophia here (Thanks Sophia!) for making the classes worthwhile for us and off we go!Read More →
Four Looks From One Sloper
Sticky
2010-10-07
Four different looks from one basic sloper pattern. Read More →