Dressmaking: Draft and Sew a Shirred Dress
Choosing Your Design
A course by By Hand London , Sewing Patterns Brand
About the video: Choosing Your Design
Overview
“It's time to start planning and designing our garment. I'll tell you about my creative process and how I plan my designs.”
In this video lesson By Hand London addresses the topic: Choosing Your Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dressmaking: Draft and Sew a Shirred Dress. Create your own made-to-measure garments by learning how to draft and cut patterns before sewing your fabric together on a sewing machine.
Partial transcription of the video
“Choosing Your Design In this lesson, we'll design our final project and I'll be talking to you a bit about my own design process as well. When I set out designing this pattern, I wanted to create something that had maximum impact, but was simple to make, and easy to draft for someone who's never drafted a pattern before. I wanted to create something using simple shapes and easy techniques. No fiddly fastenings and no tricky fitting. As I always do when I start designing something, I look at the photos I've saved on my Instagram. As you can see, I love long, flowing silhouettes, some cinchin...”
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Course summary for: Dressmaking: Draft and Sew a Shirred Dress
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing
By Hand London
A course by By Hand London
Elisalex is the founder of By Hand London sewing patterns, where she encourages and supports people who want to create their own made to measure clothes. Sewing, knitting, crochet, and DIY have always been her sanctuary. Elisalex delved back into the world of making with an old school friend when taking time off work to be a full-time mum. Motivated by the ability to breathe new life into dressmaking through social media, they founded By Hand London in 2012.
Since then, By Hand London’s reputation for original patterns has prevailed, with many more available sizes and patterns to choose from on their online store. The brand has recently collaborated with John Lewis to create printed patterns and Elisalex was awarded Designer of the month in August 2021 by Craft World.
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