Hello everyone!
Now I will show two ways to sew the underbust round bone in corsets with a one-piece cup. Despite the fact that in my tutorials you mostly see the option with a curved Rigilene bone, you might replace it with a metal bone and a tunnel tape. You can see how to do it in the following video.
In continuation to the such well received post about sewing equipment, we prepared for you a fresh list of additional supplies for your corset making and sewing wedding dresses. Direct Amazon links included for your convenience.
Enjoy!
Let's go over the necessary equipment for successful dressmaking.
First things first - the essentials:
It's preferable to use an industrial lockstich machine. We recommend the JUKI brand. But you can use any household sewing machine as well. If you don't have an expensive industrial machine at your disposal, it is absolutely unnecessary to buy one from a start.
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Or a budget-friendly option:
Professional dress form with collapsible shoulders is preferable, we recommend the "PGM Dress Form" brand. But it is not necessary. Any simple foam dress form will work, especially if you are at the beginning of your journey and looking for a budget-friendly options.
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Make sure to buy a good pair of scissors. This is crucial, invest in a good one and you will never regret it!
We recommend the KAI brand, made in Japan.
For making cups and bustier.
You should have several moulds like this in different sizes.
You can easily make it yourself DIY:
Take foam spheres of varying diameters and cut them in halves. You can also use plastic spheres. Cover the half-spheres with layers of iron-on batiste. That's it, you have your own custom pressing forms.
You can easily make it yourself DIY by covering bowling pin with multiple layers of iron-on batiste.
Hello, sewing enthusiasts!
I’m sure that you understand that exact and accurate measurement is the thing of high importance.
99% of mistakes and bad fitting are because of carelessness in measurement.
Before you are starting measuring your client, you should already have an exact plan:
At the beginning you and a client are discussing the style, details, trimmings. And only then you are starting to measure.
Let me say few words before we will start. At first, we should measure a client, and then measure a pattern. We will compare the measurements and change the pattern. Believe me, when you will understand my method, you will forget all others.
It takes 1 second to calculate the pattern alterations using our software and 5-10 minutes to draw a pattern on the material. Then it takes 6-7 hours to sew, and… your client could visit you for a fitting. Then it takes 2-3 hours to complete and make small changes.
Believe me, it’s possible! It takes no more than 2 working days to sew a wedding or an evening dress. Of course, I’m talking about only sewing a dress, without spending time on hand embroidery, decorating by beads or complex skirts.
Okay, let’s measure. You should face the client, and it’s comfortable to place a mirror behind the back of the client. So you could see the way the tape measure goes, and so it’s easy to correct it.
Now, tie up two ropes: the one rope on the waist, the other on the belly. It’ll be much more comfortable for you, if you’ll place the rope at the borderline on the bottom of the corset. But there could be some differences. For example, if the corset is shorter on its sides and longer in the middle part. In that case you should place the rope at the corset’s sides.
Please pay attention how is your client standing, while you are measuring. The client should stay erect, the client shouldn’t move at all, even client’s hands shouldn’t move. Ropes should also stay at the same places, that you put them first time. And I’d like also to point out that you should place the rope at the waist, exactly where it should be at the result (it’s not always the narrowest place on the belly). The client should be dressed lightly, and she should wear brassiere. If the client likes push-ups bra, then she should put on the push-up.
(1) The first measurement is named “Bust front”. The measurement is from side to side through the most prominent parts on the bust.
Drafting a corset pattern is a not easy task, but it's possible and I'm going to show you how.
On February 9, 2020 the 92nd Academy Award Ceremony was held in Los Angeles.
The media is actively discussing various news and sensations associated with this event. Press say that it was arguably the worst red-carpet garments demonstration, in comparison to previous years.
There is nothing new here - every year criticism is repeated every year.
But this is the reasoning of those who do not consider dresses as a work of art. Those who do not understand the specifics of making Haute Couture outfits.
Hello, sewing enthusiasts!
In this article I'm going to review the collection of a famous fashion house BERTA - Athens 2019 (fall-winter 2019)
Beautiful, isn't it? It's hard to believe, but for ALL the gowns in this collection were made using only 3 patterns!
This is very pragmatic! Using the techniques of decoration on the same basis creates the splendor of a variety of images and styles!
As an example, I'll talk about this larger part of Berta's 2019 collection:
All of these incredible gowns are made using only ONE same pattern.
Hello, sewing enthusiasts!
In this tutorial I'll show you how to achieve a perfect fit for your client or for your self.
I'll show you in details, how to alter a standard wedding dress sewing pattern to match the exact measurements of your client.
Click here to download the wedding dress sewing pattern for free >>
Click here for the video course on sewing this dress >>
Enjoy!
