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Today we will attach the pockets to the outer/surface fabric dress and sew the necklines+armholes.…
Good morning! Today we will start making the balloon dress. Before we begin, I’ll just make a quick explanation about the terms. The balloon dress is basically made up of two dresses. One wide dress on the outside (referred to in the instructions as…
I’m finally going to make this dress!…
Today we will finish the bag! Yay! 1. Iron on the interfacing to the long strips (handle strips) by aligning the pieces down the middle. Set aside for later. 2. Taking one of the shorter strips, pin it to the top opening of the…
How did Day 1 go? Too fast? Too slow? Shall we move on? Let’s proceed to making the bag body today. 🙂 1 . Sew the darts (See below) 2. Repeat on the other side. Now one side of your bag should look like…
It’s the first day of our sew-along! Before we begin, I just wanted to go into some details on interfacing and fabric cutting. Those of you who have already made bags and are expert sewers, please bear with me or just skip this section…
One of the great suggestions from the Mother’s Day Book Giveaway was to have a sew-along. Originally, I wanted to do a sew-along that will use pattern from a Japanese sewing book so that we can go through the entire process of deciphering the…