Category: Fashion Design and Construction
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Jasika Blazer and Sleeve Heads
When you shop for a jacket be sure to check for sleeve heads. What they are, how to put them in, and why people use them.
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Making the Jasika Blazer: Fitting 3
When you learn that the dress form doesn’t match your body like you thought it did.
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Making the Jasika Blazer: Fitting 2
Making practice garments for fit helps you learn how to use tailoring tools to ease your work.
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Making the Jasika Blazer: Fitting 1
Finding the root cause in fit problems can be deliciously old school.
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Making the Jasika Blazer: The Muslin
One maker’s tale of constructing the Closet Core Jasika Blazer using modern professional tailoring techniques.
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Pull on the Piña Thread
Piña, a fabric made from pineapple is making a comeback in exhibits this summer from SF Legion of Honor to SFO Museum.
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Fall Fabric Game Changer
A great way to shop fall fabrics by feel with insider tips on material content and best patterns to use it with.
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Bring Intentionality to Your Closet
My experience in Design Your Wardrobe, a 3-week process to bring intentionality to clothing choices by Seamwork.
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Guo Pei’s Couture Fantasy Report
While much has been written about China’s global couturier Guo Pei, what touched me most was her focus on the details.
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Challenge: Make Another Pair of Jeans
In a previous post about the Sew Your Own Jeans retreat, I mentioned that the instructor, Lauren Taylor, challenged us to make a second pair of jeans within a week of finishing the workshop to solidify our learnings. At first, that overwhelmed me but, my classmates inspired me with their diligence. Molly made a lovely…
