Sewing construction

Sewing requires measuring. The more accurate your measurements, the better your results, whether you’re making garments, curtains, or bags.

5 ways to achieve a professional seam finish for the interior of your sewing projects - using the Luna Loungewear Pattern Collection.

Learn why it is important to sew directionally, and how to do it, in this Threads Q & A. #directionalsewing #evenseams #sewing #garmentsewing #howtosew

This is what has been on my sewing table last week…it has caused me a great headache and I actually ended up making two Burda skirts 116 2010/9. Apologies for the long technical post, but I h…

Guardians of the house’s savoir-faire and heritage, the teams of the Louis Vuitton ateliers spent the last few weeks working to finish the final details for the Fall/Winter 2018-2019 show. From the monogrammed bag to the waist-cinching corsets, click through for an exclusive peek at the creative stages and technical mastery that went into some of the show’s stand-out pieces, presented yesterday in the Louvre, Paris.

If you've never picked up anything but a 12 inch ruler in your life, seeing the kind of rulers there are for pattern making can be jarring. There's a funny

Tailoring Touches, 1974 From my apparently interminable supply, here is the twelfth post of DOWNLOADABLE PDF pamphlets. I have gathered these from around the web - almost entirely from various American university cooperative extension programs or university archives of such. (If you are not familiar with extension programs, they are pretty cool. They date back to 1914 and are the precursor to community colleges.) Please note that these are historic resources. They may refer to methods and…