My September Issue - And More!!! - Your Weekly Report from SewingArtistry

Published: Fri, 09/04/20

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September 4, 2020

It's fall.  It's like it's a new beginning and in fashion it's like a new start-over.  The Fall/Winter season is always more formal so this is the beginning of the fashion season - what there is of it.  But an old tradition is still being celebrated....the September issue of Vogue Magazine.
 
So this seems an appropriate time to start something new with one of my resources. 

Part of the reason I love this resource is that so many sewing people are overly consumed with doing a sewing construction techniques correctly or as easily and effectively as possible.  But what's lost in all this is the fit, the comfort and the flattering look. These are just as important as the techniques and sometimes more important.  How many times have you seen or done a garment with all the correct techniques but the fit is not quite right or it doesn't flatter as much as another garment and as beautifully accomplished as it is, it's not really that much fun to wear.

I grew to adore the challenges.  I had a lady call me, and she told me she wanted me to do her mother-of-groom dress, and I was thinking, "Ugh another boring dress!"  So I called her back all ready to say no, when she told me she had just recovered from a double mastectomy and didn't have time to do the reconstruction surgery till after the wedding.  Man, what a challenge.  I couldn't refuse her. 

I asked her to send me a picture of her in the dress the night of the wedding, and all I got was this big fat grin on her face.  I mean I was happy for her, but I really wanted to have a picture of her in the dress all dressed up.  I didn't have the heart to say that to her so this is the only photo I have of her in the dress.  You can see that she looks perfectly normal and yet dressed to kill!
 
I learned how to fit all those figures and using techniques that I created on my own.  I know they work, cause I've used them for decades. 

There's the proportion guides which are so valuable because they put you in the ballpark of where you need to be for good proportion, and I explain why these techniques work as well has how to work with them.  This includes a tool that you can use at home to give you good proportional scales to work with on your own clothes. 

Like all my resources, this includes a free live Zoom video with me and then two free Monthly General Q & A Free live Zoom videos for the following 2 months.  I love these cause I get to know you and you me, but also we can see each other and often times that's all I need to do is to look at you and how you move in a garment to see what's going on with the garment. 

PS - And thanks for the name help for all you who answered the post!  It's much better and I love it that you all picked the same one!


September's Feature Resource

Fitting With Proportion and Figure Flattering Tools
aka
Apex and Proportion Tools

This is one of my best resources in the library as it collects the 40 years of experience I have fitting all sizes, shapes and styles.  And I mean all of them.  A dwarf who was a bridesmaid - the bride brought me the fabric and trim and a photo of what the other girls were wearing - and she wanted something that would really last and it did!  Another debutante had scoliosis surgery (to correct her spinal curvature which would have eventually pressed against her lungs and kill her) 3 months before the ball and I designed her dream dress to wear on her special night.  Then countless grandmothers and mothers who watched their granddaughters and daughters be fitted by me and wanted the same treatment.  Their bodies weren't so complicated as much as having 30 to 60 years of living in them and like all of us wanted to look special. 
 

These figures all taught me that we are all different, but it also taught me that we can all be fitted.  Usually clients showed up at my door with some problem that RTW couldn't solve.  But after I finished a few years of my clients, the word spread, that I could do anything (well, except read minds and defy gravity) and the challenges continue to today.  I love these challenges (I have one this fall that I will share with you later, that I'm really excited about).
 

This is my scoliosis deb and her beautiful smile!

And I love sharing these techniques and tools with you because there's more to sewing than simply perfecting construction techniques. There's the looking good in your garment;  there's the feeling good in your garment;  there's the feeling comfortable in your garment; and there's the being flattered in your garment.  As sewists we have so much more than simply making a garment when we can have all this comfort, flattery and fit too! 

You sorta feel sorry for those who can't sew - And no, you don't sew for others, unless it's for someone really special!

The Fitting With Proportion and Figure Flattering Tools Resource is available here and is at a 16% off.  I rounded the cents down so it's a little more discount this month.  
 
 
 

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