Dressmaking: Draft and Sew a Shirred Dress
Finishing Your Dress 3
A course by By Hand London , Sewing Patterns Brand
About the video: Finishing Your Dress 3
Overview
“Last step! I'll be showing you how to sew the bodice and the skirt together. The gathered skirt layer will go on the bottom and the shirred bodice layer on top. The delicate part will be to stretch the bodice as I move along. Once it is sewn together, I'll show you how to fix any puckering. The dress is almost done. You'll have to check that the length of the dress works for you before working on the hem.”
In this video lesson By Hand London addresses the topic: Finishing Your Dress 3, 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
“Finishing Your Dress You sew the waistline of your dress, we'll be putting the skirt layer down on the bottom, the gathered skirt of the waist on the bottom of the machine as we did last time. The shirred bodice layer will be on the top. I'll start my line of stitching at one of the side seams. Pop that in, usual five-eighths of an inch seam allowance. You'll find that you'll be sewing your waistline seam very close to the last line of shirring that you did. That's what we want. We don't want to be too far away from the last line of shirring. When you're happy with that, five-eighths of an ...”
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Course summary for: Dressmaking: Draft and Sew a Shirred Dress
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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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