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All Season Pants & Top — Butterick 6667 + 6668
Perfect for any season, these two new patterns, a shirt and pant, which pair together beautifully, are great for updating your spring-summer wardrobe and mix well in colors or neutrals.
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Easy Rider Moto Vest
Large scale prints are a fast moving trend and so are panel prints. From an Italian mill, the base fabric is a superb quality ivory stretch cotton denim with crosswise stretch which feels good and washed like a dream. The digitally printed photograph is a soft warm black and the two side by side images morph across the width with no visible line where the image joins. Dubbed 'Easy Rider', each panel is 1 1/4 yards long x 54" wide. See the scale of one panel in relation to the dress form in the photo below.
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Sewing Geek Weekend — Pattern Prototype, Jacket Design & Cozy Throw
Making a Vogue Pattern Prototype with Gwen & Marcy — When it is time to get down to business and sew the final-final prototypes for a future Vogue pattern envelope, Gwen Spencer puts a closed sign on the door of her studio and makes the 5 hour drive from Corvallis to my studio in Takilma. We had planned a weekend in December, but there was an ice storm, so pushed the date into January. The due date to Vogue is January 15, so this is cutting it close, and there are 2 patterns due; a pant and a jacket. The pant was partially done, and pretty straightforward, so this 3 day sew-a-thon was all about the jacket. These two patterns are for Winter/Holiday, a season that includes the holidays, but also casts a look toward spring, so the choice of fabrics really spans two seasons. I want to show two versions, one for holiday, another that could work for holiday in warmer climates and have a trans-seasonal more casual appeal.
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Marcy and Gwen's Sewing Nerd Tips
Marcy Tilton and Gwen Spencer, self proclaimed sewing-geeks share their passion for all things sewing. Filmed during one of our long sewing weekends where we are designing and sewing and writing instructions for a jacket for a Holiday/Winter 2017 Vogue pattern.
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How to shop for the perfect fabric
Join me on a fabric buying expedition! In this video, I share how I choose fabrics for MARCYTILTON.com. It's easy to become overwhelmed when shopping for fabrics. These tips can help you decide what to buy, what to leave behind, and how to know the difference the next time you need fabric for an upcoming design or sewing project.In this 4.5 minute video I share with you some of my top tips for finding just the right fabrics for sewing your own signature garments.
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ParisTilton tour group shows off flea market finds
Experience seven magical, inspiring and artful days in Paris with Marcy and Katherine Tilton. Our intimate small-group travel experience is tailored for women who enjoy design, fashion, textiles and art and want to explore and encounter the magic of Paris with a designer's eye.
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Tongue in Chic T-Shirt
When I want to make something fast and reliable, I make a t-shirt using a tried and true pattern, and, as my friend Mary says, 'a little sewing makes any day just that much better.'
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Marcy's Craftsy Artful T-Shirts
As I prepared for the Tilton Sisters new Craftsy Class, The Artful T-Shirt, I made a series of tunic/top/t-shirts for myself using Vogue 9057, the pattern we used as the basic for all our class projects. Detailed instructions for neck, sleeve, cuff and design ideas are contained in the online class itself. Here is a closer look at the garments. 1 Uses 4 different knit fabrics in black, gray and ivory. The neck band is a single layer and uses the roll at the selvedge edge as a neck finish. 2 Is a light weight gray/lavender jersey stripe cut on the crossgrain with lace sleeves and mesh knit twisted band neck. I ran short of fabric at the back hem, so the lace adds a bit of extra length while tying the garment together. Love these happy accidents. 3 Is made from one mesh knit, using a double layer in the body with a fold at the hem, single layer sleeves and a super easy self double layer neckband. 4 & 5 This version used the angle tunic made in 2 separate pieces designed to be worn together. The top is a gray/black graffiti print rayon/lycra jersey and a sheer/opaque stripe is used for the sleeve is cut on the bias and used cross grain for the neckband. The under tunic is a single layer of mesh point d'esprit, bound neck and armholes while the hem has a raw edge, simply trimmed with a rotary cutter. 6 Is made from a hand painted ivory bamboo/lycra jersey. I painted the fabric one summer day when Diane Ericson came for a visit. She brought her fabric painting kit, and we laid the fabric out on the lawn and splashed paint, used brushes tied to long floppy sticks. The process was big fun and I love the results. The sleeves are two different rayon/bamboo/lycra knits. I am always rolling up my sleeves, which can be worn long with a narrow bound edge or rolled up which shows a wider faced cuff. 7 Yes, you can cut knits on the bias...see the video tutorial below. This top uses a cotton knit, body cut on the bias, sleeves cut on the lengthwise grain, and one leftover sleeve in the Venetian Panel print from another garment. I often will cut different sets of sleeves in various fabrics and audition them to see what works best, and both sleeves do not have to be the same!
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The Hoodie Hiding in Plain Site — Vogue 9244
Worn by men, women and children, beloved by skateboarders, athletes, students and the uniform of tech geeks, the hoodie is a garment so universal it can almost render a person invisible. My hoodie pattern keeps the functionality with a feminine dash of sophistication. Visiting Vogue patterns last month, I was honored to discover that Vogue 9244, a hoodie, is the #1 best seller.
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