166 Search Results for: pocket

Costume College 2019: Friday

I know that the Rate the Dress post is very overdue, but I also think that three Rate the Dress posts in a row is rather repetitive! So RTD is on hold for the week so you can enjoy some other content, like Costume College 2019! I had a lovely time at Costume College, but I’m also totally at peace with my decision not to go again. It’s no longer an event that’s focused on my interests, and I’d rather save my energy for local events, and conserving the environment. The best part, as always, was definitely seeing old friends, and making new ones. Here are some photos from the Friday Night Event. So many amazing outfits! I apologise that I haven’t tagged everyone: if you know someone’s blog or handle that I’ve missed, please let me know in the comments. And if I got a photo of you you’d like, if you leave a comment asking for it I’ll be able to see your email (no one else will) and can send it to …

Sewing & Sustainability & some shorts

Published by The Dreamstress

Remember my Pants on Fire shorts? (I hope you do, because I love the photos, and the story of how they got their name is pretty hilarious). I made them to take with me to a visit to my parents on their farm in Hawai’i back in 2016. They were great, but the farm is hard on clothes, and they got thrashed. Something got on the fabric, or there was something about the fabric, that got this weird bleaching everywhere. Plus there were farm stains. I would have just left them on the farm, to wear the next time I went home to Hawai’i, but I brought them back to Wellington, because I’d made them so quickly I just drew the pattern straight on the fabric, and forgot to keep a copy. So I took them apart back in Wellington, took patterns off of them, and then I sewed them back up. I even took the time to add a zip facing, which I hadn’t originally included, and that meant I had to lengthen the …

The Eastbourne Trousers – Tester Makes!

Published by The Dreamstress

Testers are such an important part of the indie pattern design process. They help ensure that a pattern fits just right on a wide range of bodies and makes sense to the average sewist across the world. Good testers help me to polish off any last bits of roughness from a pattern, asking all the questions I might have missed answering. I had a fabulous group of testers for the Scroop Patterns Eastbourne Trousers. They went above and beyond with providing feedback – even in the midst of horrible storms, and hospital visits. I am phenomenally grateful for their help. Here are the tester makes! Mandy @make_it_sew_number1 Mandy made no alterations at all to her View A Eastbourne’s, except to shorten them at the hem. Her Eastbourne’s are made in a wonderful wool crepe. I’ve never considered them in pink, and now I want my own pink pair. (this is the drawback to being a pattern designer. People make awesome versions of your patterns, and then you want to copy them, and then you end …