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Mrs Bowden’s top tip – fitting advice One of the reasons you may make your own clothes is because you want your garments to fit you. Very few of us are a standard size which means that we can become a wee bit frustrated shopping for ready to wear (RTW) particularly if clothes are mean…
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Variations on a theme…. There are just some ‘go to’ patterns that I have in my stock and this is one of them. I have made it 4 times with slight variations and just about to embark on my 5th version. This time in chestnut brown pure wool crepe. I thought it might be interesting…
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It’s a simple one but effective! Here are a couple of garments that I am presently making which inspired this week’s top tip. On the left is a modern ‘retro’ Butterick pattern for a charming tea dress. You can see I have created quite ornate hand embroidered motifs on the front yolks; based on a…
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Mrs Bowden’s top tip – to wash or not to wash? That really is the question. Felixstowe Sewing School https://www.felixstowesewingschool.co.uk To prewash or not to prewash……that is the question! An extremely frequent question I get asked in my Dressmaking classes is ‘should I wash this fabric before I use it?’. This is a ‘how…
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If you know me, you will know that I am forever pursuing either vintage clothes in a size to fit (tricky as I do have a full figure) or I make my own. I also have a bit of a ‘thing’ for vintage or vintage style patterns. I can easily justify my frequent purchases of…
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Felixstowe Sewing School Mrs Bowden’s top tip – Needlework Development Series part 2 https://www.felixstowesewingschool.co.uk This is the second part of a little series about the Needlework Development Scheme which was started in collaboration with J P Coats Threads and 4 Art Schools in Scotland in 1934. The NDS was temporarily suspended due to the outbreak…
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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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Felixstowe Sewing School https://www.felixstowesewingschool.co.uk A few zippy facts…. I would like to introduce this chap to you. He is Mr Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-American electrical engineer who is commonly associated with his work on inventing the modern day zipper. Funnily enough the basic principal of the zipper hasn’t really changed since he patented his invention on…
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