A few of you asked about the serged french tacks I did on my Simplicity 1880 wrap and shirt dresses. Well they are the best things since sliced bread and so easy to make. Now, if you don’t have a serger, don’t worry you can do these by machine too. You gals and guys know…
Friends, its time to wrap up this sewalong! Now please don’t think that this is the final be-all end-all because we’ll have ourselves a bit of a party in a week – July 19 & 20 to be exact. I’ll be talking more about that later. Today, I thought I would include resources for finishing…
For you shirt dressers, I know you’ve been waiting some time for this tutorial, so hopefully you give it a try and like it. If you’ve ever stitched a notched collar according to pattern instructions before, you’ll find this method so much easier – at least I do! I learned this method from reading a…
OK you guys, I decided to go out on a limb and try something new here. I was going to show you how to put elastic in the neckline area of the wrap dress version of Simplicity 1880 to keep it from gaping, but in all actuality I started working on it and it just…
You know, I never used to believe in stay tape. I thought it was a bunch of malarkey. I was really into only doing stay stitching for awhile, but I’ve come around friends. Stay tape is miraculous. Well, it can be anyway. I think the biggest problem before was that I wasn’t using fusible stay…
