Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Sew Your Own Jeans
The Opportunity I had a work break coming and thought it would be a great opportunity polish my sewing and design craft. I asked my sewing friends locally and the Beatrice Dress Forms collective what they would do if they had some time. I put all the ideas in a spreadsheet and researched price, location,…
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My Beatrice Dress Form Journey
If you’re thinking about ways to improve the fit of your clothing makes or considering buying a custom dress form, or if you just want to know what I’ve been up to over the past year, this post is for you. PROBLEM My clothing makes didn’t fit the way I wanted. Adjusting the pattern ate…
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Vintage Simplicity 4237
This is a story about the making of vintage pattern Simplicity 4237, a blouse with a deep back yoke, short cuffed kimono sleeves, and a sweetheart collar that dips in back. Update: Simplicity has just reissued this pattern as Simplicity 8445! Part 1: The Ingredients I found this Vintage pattern at Scrap PDX, a creative…
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Patchwork: A Life Amongst Clothes
As a well-worn corset interior reveals the dips and curves of the original owner’s body, so a moment reveals impressions of a life. A curator examines a fragment, an object accessioned, and follows the fracture lines to time, place, use, inhabitant, radiating inquiry into the content of context. Similarly, Wilcox examines her remembrances of life…
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Designing a Dress: Making V2842 by Emanuel Ungaro
I am sharing the making of a dress in case it is useful to others who are also on this sewing journey. From inspiration to final, I share it all, including the challenges, with you. Inspiration Lucy Liu starring as Joan Watson wears the most inspiring clothes in the tv series Elementary, particularly in Seasons…
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Designing and Making The Carolina Go Bag
The Carolina Go Bag This is my baby:) Designed, drafted, and made by me. Design Process I designed this bag for air travel (once we can do that again). I developed the design by designing, drafting, and making 5 prototypes over 2 years. These iterations were based on functional requirements (such as aisle width and…
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Just Sewn: Sapporo Coat by PaperCut Patterns
I made my first coat with the Sapporo Coat pattern by Papercut Patterns.
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Read: Old in Art School by Nell Painter
I found out about Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter through that great arbiter, Instagram. Author Austin Kleon posted photos of his office typewriter behind which were shelves filled with books. Ever curious, I pinched and zoomed to see titles and this one intrigued me because of the time…
