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How to Carve Fabric Stamps
I want to show you how easy and fun it is to carve your own rubber stamps. Once I realized how quick and simple it was, I began searching for and collecting images.
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How to Create a Mitered Corner with Gwen Spencer
How to make a mitered corner, in The Studio with Marcy and Gwen Spencer. See Gwen's fast and easy, foolproof method for making a mitered corner.
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Paris Strip T-Shirt — Vogue 8582
I love the trend of using fabric as a trim, and I often see the French using home sewing techniques like this in design. In this first of three videos, I review different design strategies for this technique, cutting strips and sewing them on to the fabric of the garment. In this video, I demonstrate variations I've created using Vogue Pattern V8582. In this second video of three, I demonstrate the steps to follow when cutting strips and positioning them on to the garment. I also include tips on cutting on the grain, working with the stretch of the garment, and other guidelines for measuring, cutting, and positioning the strips onto the garment. In this third and final video in the series, I go through the steps of sewing, pressing, and other design strategies for adding material strips to a T-shirt or any garment. It's best to build your strips, one or two at a time, press, and then move on to building the next. That allows the design to evolve as you go. Also, should you have a problem with fabric stretching, you can add stabilizer and then tear it away when you're finished.
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How To Add Shirring To A Garment
Shirring is a sewing and decoration technique for adding two or more rows of gathers to garments, usually at the sleeve, a bodice, or a yoke. It can be tricky to execute, but here Marcy shares how to add shirring, and clever tips for getting a professional finish.
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Easy Peasy Drawstring
Marcy Tilton and Gwen Spencer share a super simple and quick way to make a drawstring, step-by-step. No more stitching and turning in tight little corners.
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Button Up Pull Over Dress — Butterick 5881
Here is Gwen Spencer's rendition of Katherine Tilton pattern Butterick 5881. The pattern calls for 2 separate tunics/layers to be joined together. Gwen separated the two, wears them together, but also wears the white under layer separately. The collaged fabric started with playing around with a small piece of fabric when she was at the Design Outside the Lines retreat. That small section lead to the final combination of fabrics and stitching. The narrow yellow green strips are cotton cut on the bias. The glass buttons are vintage. She added a bit of black machine stitching on the bias neck bands to tie things together. Gwen left spaces in the stitching on the twill tape, then threaded the yellow-green cotton bias strips over and under.
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The Cirque Dress — Vogue 9112
I want to sew more like Gwen Spencer. Her projects never cease to inspire me, each with a distinct sewing and personal style. You may know Gwen from our booth at the Puyallup Sewing Expo or from the Design Outside the Lines retreats where she will be a teacher.
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Travel Tunic — Vogue 9329
For me Core Travel Wardrobe Series, I'm working with Vogue 9329, AKA ‘the stop-me-in-the-street-dress’ (because people stop to ask about it). I used two co-ordinating black and white dotty prints. I chose the fabrics because they work nesting under and peeking out from the vest and the Italian poly/lycra knit has a smooth silky hand.
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How to sew a curved hem in a knit
Marcy Tilton and Gwen Spencer show how to make a quick easy clean finish on a curved hem in a knit as used in the godet detail used in tunic Vogue 9272 by Marcy Tilton.
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