I do all the alterations and mending in my family so I am always down for these videos in addition to your costuming and historical sewing. And that purple jumper dress absolutely made your eyes pop! Gorgeous!
Alterations/refashions are one of my favorite videos to watch at the moment! I own so many clothes that I know I would love even more if they just fit me better. (And to be honest, I also crave the normality of it in these weird, changing times. They help cleanse my mind after watching the news). 💕 from Tucson 💕
Those alterations came out lovely. I really love the colour of the purple dress/ jumper dress. Yes I do think you should tackle a video on mending and alterations. Maybe attempt to do one every few months so you can whittle down your pile of mending.
This makes me want to make all my dresses into jumper dresses! But I did have a thought about the sleeves - if you wanted to lengthen them, it would look really pretty if you cut them just above the elbow and added in some matching lace or crochet trim, then reattached the bottom with the cuff on it. It might not work with just how short the sleeves are, but I'm a sucker for anything extra-fancy.
When I have necklines or armsc scys that bubble/ flap out a bit, I thread shirring elastic through the hem. Its just enough elastic to flatten it without pulling and wrinkling it.
I'd love to not only see more alteration videos, but more of the alteration process. I'd especially like to see how you make them symmetrical, and handle things like that back alteration on your own.
The good thing is, now SeamsFriendly hopefully knows to take arm measurements on their custom sizes, so hopefully everything will fit correctly going forward.
On the subject of fitting, I recently received an order from Damson Madder and want to "report back" that the fit is really whack-a-doodle and it seems intentional. They do a poor job of communicating this with their modeling shots, so what I assumed I was getting were very historically-inspired modern garments, but what I got were historically-inspired proportions all over the place garments; like they cut the sleeve cuffs double or more long and really wide so they end up falls over your fingers, yet the back and front shoulder area on the main body / bodice pieces are cut really narrow. It was really surprising, and I support designers doing whatever they want, but all the advertisement materials really did a poor job of communicating the intent of how it's suppose to look on you vs. what you might think it'll end up looking like. I ended up returning everything, accept one garment that's alteration would be really simple (remove cuffs). Overall it's a good-quality company in terms of design-creativity and the quality of the materials (the stitch work / actual construction is where they cut costs, but the cotton is really sturdy/thick and good) but you have to assume everything is going to fit really weird on purpose. It's not "oh because they did this or that it sits weird", instead it's; "It sits weird because it was always suppose to sit that strangely on you".
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I would love to see more alteration videos!
You could always do eyelets in the straps/top of sleeves and do detachable Italian Renaissance sleeves tied on with points.
I do all the alterations and mending in my family so I am always down for these videos in addition to your costuming and historical sewing. And that purple jumper dress absolutely made your eyes pop! Gorgeous!
It’s so interesting to see you do all these alterations to ready made that you always do to your patterns!
What a perfect match for the pink bias. As always I admire your skill and persistence.
Alterations/refashions are one of my favorite videos to watch at the moment! I own so many clothes that I know I would love even more if they just fit me better. (And to be honest, I also crave the normality of it in these weird, changing times. They help cleanse my mind after watching the news). 💕 from Tucson 💕
Those alterations came out lovely. I really love the colour of the purple dress/ jumper dress. Yes I do think you should tackle a video on mending and alterations. Maybe attempt to do one every few months so you can whittle down your pile of mending.
This makes me want to make all my dresses into jumper dresses!
But I did have a thought about the sleeves - if you wanted to lengthen them, it would look really pretty if you cut them just above the elbow and added in some matching lace or crochet trim, then reattached the bottom with the cuff on it. It might not work with just how short the sleeves are, but I'm a sucker for anything extra-fancy.
When I have necklines or armsc scys that bubble/ flap out a bit, I thread shirring elastic through the hem. Its just enough elastic to flatten it without pulling and wrinkling it.
I'd love to not only see more alteration videos, but more of the alteration process. I'd especially like to see how you make them symmetrical, and handle things like that back alteration on your own.
You should take patterns from these altered dresses especially the purple dress. Great master for more day dresses. Plus you have a sleeve pattern. 😊
They looked so bad before and so good after. Well done! Jumper dresses sure are your signature style. Fabulous!
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I can NEVER find sleeves long enough!!!!! So frustrating since you can always shorten a sleeve but you seldom if ever can make it longer.
The good thing is, now SeamsFriendly hopefully knows to take arm measurements on their custom sizes, so hopefully everything will fit correctly going forward.
Why does the purple dress make me think of Into The Woods?
On the subject of fitting, I recently received an order from Damson Madder and want to "report back" that the fit is really whack-a-doodle and it seems intentional. They do a poor job of communicating this with their modeling shots, so what I assumed I was getting were very historically-inspired modern garments, but what I got were historically-inspired proportions all over the place garments; like they cut the sleeve cuffs double or more long and really wide so they end up falls over your fingers, yet the back and front shoulder area on the main body / bodice pieces are cut really narrow. It was really surprising, and I support designers doing whatever they want, but all the advertisement materials really did a poor job of communicating the intent of how it's suppose to look on you vs. what you might think it'll end up looking like.
I ended up returning everything, accept one garment that's alteration would be really simple (remove cuffs). Overall it's a good-quality company in terms of design-creativity and the quality of the materials (the stitch work / actual construction is where they cut costs, but the cotton is really sturdy/thick and good) but you have to assume everything is going to fit really weird on purpose. It's not "oh because they did this or that it sits weird", instead it's; "It sits weird because it was always suppose to sit that strangely on you".