Mrs Bowden’s Top Tip – puffed sleeves of loveliness A few tips on setting in a puffed sleeve – this is useful as the same technique applies for a gently gathered sleeve too! The variety in sleeves is inspiring and designers can add interest to the head of the sleeve – where it travels over the…
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Felixstowe Sewing School https://www.felixstowesewingschool.co.uk Mrs Bowden’s top tip – the dark art of applying interfacing I know that some people have had tricky experiences with applying interfacing ending up with a curled up, sticky and singed piece of fabric and a messed up iron…….If this applies to you or somebody you know, or you think…
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Felixstowe Sewing School https://www.felixstowesewingschool.co.uk Heavens to Betsy! – it’s National Tape Measure Day on the 14th July 2017. Here I am wearing my tape measure dress…. A very lovely lady called Sian alerted me to the fact that there is a National Tape Measure Day on the 14th July. Now, this is an American invention…
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Felixstowe Sewing School https://www.felixstowesewingschool.co.uk Mrs Bowden’s top tip; interfacing intelligence. We had an interesting chat in one of my Dressmaking classes this week about interfacing and why/how it is used; also the variety of interfacings can sometimes be baffling. Hence this weeks’ top tip – aimed to help you skip through purchasing interfacing – next…
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