Megan Skirt Tester Round-Up – Part 2. Hello and again and thank you for reading about my amazing testers of the Designer Stitch group. I would like to introduce my second installment featuring my great team of pattern testers – this post features 13 fabulous women. When the tester call goes out into the […]
Megan Skirt Tester Round-Up. Welcome and thank you for reading about my amazing testers of the Designer Stitch group. My team plays an important role as part of the pattern release process. As a designer it is very exciting to see your vision come together and the testers always go above and beyond when finalizing […]
I would like to introduce you to one of my pattern testers ( and student in my fashion school ) Kurvy Kim. She is one of my curvy testers and I would like to share with you today the steps we took to fit and alter the Fiona Lace Culottes pattern to fit her body. […]
While working in the garment industry for many years I observed that this technique is key in the manufacturing process. In production clothing manufacturers have to rely on accuracy and speed so the production process is set up in a way that the “units” of a garment are never double handled. When heat setting interfacing […]
This is an easy pattern marking method that I have used in my classes for many years. This technique is fabulous for new sewist’s as it allows for an easy and accurate way to transfer pattern markings to the cut pattern fabric pieces. I also refer to this method in my PDF sewing pattern ( […]
