by Sigrid | Fri 01 21 | blog, burda pattern, garment a month, jacket
The next steps in the jacket were making the welt pockets and the shoulder shield. The shoulder shield (or shoulder placket) is used to stabilise the area between shoulder and bust, where fabric is inclined to make a dip. It consists of a hair canvas part that is kept...
by Sigrid | Thu 01 21 | blog, burda pattern, garment a month, jacket, sewing tip
I made quite a bit of progress on my jacket. A lot of the work in a jacket is in preparing and marking pattern pieces. I’m using linen as fabric (yes, it will be for a warmer season ) and as it’s generally known this is very prone to wrinkling I chose to...
by Sigrid | Mon 01 21 | blog, burda pattern, garment a month, jacket
A new feature on my blog this year is a “garment a month”. Each month I will sew a garment and give a bit more details on construction. I have no specific plans on which garments will be featured. I would be interested to hear what garments or...
by Sigrid | Sun 01 21 | bag making, blog
My bag for sewing notions is finished. I’m quite pleased with it and will start using it when sewing lessons are possible again. I say quite pleased but not perfectly happy. It’s a complicated pattern and all parts are designed to match so perfectly that...
by Sigrid | Sat 01 21 | blog, burda pattern, pattern tracing, using magazine patterns
A second post about tracing Burda magazine patterns. In the video I show what information can be found in the small drawings that are in the instructions for the patterns and how they look on the pattern sheets. It’s not a complete reference, but I hope it...
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