TUTORIAL: 5 steps to perfect Bound Buttonholes
As you know I became obsessed with the Bound Buttonholes after saw them in the Vintage Details Sourcebook. If you follow me in Instagram you know all the experimentation, trial and error I’ve made looking for the best technique, and today I…
Continue readingVINTAGE DETAILS – a fashion sourcebook
This is not a pattern making nor a sewing book, doesn’t explain anything or have a step by step. In this book you will find a graphic collection of 156 costumes dating from 1913 to 1995, photographed in every detail….
Continue readingTHE REFASHIONERS 2018
The Refashioners is back and I’m so happy to be part of it this year. The theme was “inspired by”, where we had to take a character, outfit or icon that inspired our transformation. THE INSPIRATION While I was…
Continue readingHOW TO MAKE A KIMONO WITH A SCARF
I recently showed you on Instagram some beautiful scarves that a friend of mine bought at a flea market and asked me to transform. With one of them I decided to make a kimono, it seemed to be the best…
Continue readingSEW ALONG: DARLILA DRESS
The first sew along I do and the longest video I’ve edited, I just hope you understand everything and make wonderful Darlila’s. (you can activate the english subtitles) =) GET THE PATTERN DARLILA DRESS PDF PATTERN – The DARLILA PDF…
Continue readingDRESS MADE WITH SCRAPS + FREE PATTERN
Around 15% of fabric is discarded during the confecction process, it is estimated that we produced globally 400 billion square meters of fabric in 2015, 15% of 400 billion would mean a waste of 60 BILLION square meters of cloth….
Continue readingTESTERS ROUND UP: DARLILA DRESS
Finally I can say I finished my first digital pattern!!! Although you know it’s no really the first one, but it’s the first really profesional one, and I’m so proud of it. It is amazing everything we can achieve when…
Continue readingDARLILA DRESS sewing pattern
THE DARLILA DRESS SEWING PATTERN IS FINALLY HERE!!! DO YOU WANT IT? Darlila is a dress full of energy, simple yet faithful, it is adaptable to almost any style and fabric, such as Viscose, Rayon, Cotton, Chiffon, etc. The…
Continue readingHOW TO SEW ELASTIC USING BIAS (2 TECHNIQUES)
Hi, here I leave you a short tutorial on how you can sew the elastic band of the Darlila dress. The video is in Spanish but you can easily see how the process is. If you are new to sewing,…
Continue readingPATTERN MAGIC: A cardigan made with a rectangle
This is one of the simpler patterns of Tomoko Nakamichi. In a section of his second book (Patternmagic) she plays with geometric figures, managing to restructure them wraping it to the body. In this case, a square, a pattern that…
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