Rebekah's Sewing Diary

Over the past few weeks my sister and I have been working together to make her a party dress, using Butterick 5748 . We used a "novelty" nylon taffeta embossed with patches of velveteen...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/04/retro-party-dress.html

The main panels of the dress have been cut out, and the bodice is now partially assembled!  As I mentioned in my last post, I'm going to skip the front pockets, so before laying out the pattern,...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring-dress-progress.html

Over the past week I've been working on a dress for Spring! I'm using Simplicity 2886 , which I bought last year during a pattern sale. I had hoped to make a summer dress with it, but sinc...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-dress-for-spring.html

I've finally written a review for the Butterick pattern that I used for my "herringbone coat"! It's on PatternReview.com - if you'd like to see it, click here !

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/03/pattern-review-butterick-5685.html

Here are few photos of a skirt that I actually started long before my coat project, but recently finished with a hem late in December. This post is a little overdue, but I didn't have any photos...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/02/butterick-high-waist-skirt.html

My "Herringbone Coat" is finished! Here are some photos of the completed coat, along with a few little details. . . Front and back:                         Â...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/01/herringbone-coat-finished.html

Because the fashion fabric for my coat is lightweight, I decided to use an interlining for a little extra warmth. I prepared the lining panels for this step at the beginning of the project by ba...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/01/herringbone-coat-lining-and-interlining.html

Just a quick post with a photo showing how I interfaced the hem of the coat - at this point it's very close to being finished, as I've set the sleeves and also attached the shoulder pads and sle...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/01/herringbone-coat-hem-interfacing.html

As I mentioned when introducing project, I decided to substitute a two-piece sleeve from another coat pattern for the one-piece sleeve in the pattern for this coat. My reason for doing this is s...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/01/herringbone-coat-two-piece-sleeves.html

At the time of my last post, I was working on the seams of the lower coat, which included in-seam pockets . The lower center front panels coat also needed to be interfaced, but since they didn't ...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2012/01/herringbone-coat-upper-collar-and-front.html

Since the construction has come to the point where I can add the lower part of the coat, the panels of the "skirt" portion need to be assembled. For the most part this is pretty simple, since mos...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/12/herringbone-coat-in-seam-pockets.html

Now that the stand of the collar is all filled in with padstitching, the "fall" of the collar, or the area that drapes down from the roll line at the back of the neck, can be padstitched as well....

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/12/herringbone-coat-padstitching.html

After completing the bound buttonholes, the next step is to assemble the bodice panels and start interfacing the main pieces of the coat. Here's a photo of the bodice front: For the most par...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/12/herringbone-coat-interfacing-upper-coat.html

Before assembling the main panels of the coat bodice, I made bound buttonholes on the center front piece of the coat. I put this step first because applying this type of buttonhole after the hai...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/12/herringbone-coat-bound-buttonholes.html

Well, it's been nearly a month since my last post, and I've been inching along between Thanksgiving and other happenings, but my coat project is still underway. I took a few pictures along the w...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/11/herringbone-coat-preparations.html

When purchasing some of the materials my coat, I found a pair of "needle punch" shoulder pads. They are made from graduated layers of soft batting, sandwiched between two layers of felt. The pads...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/11/herringbone-coat-shoulder-pads.html

I know it's been a long time since I've last updated. . . a very long time! My life over these past months has gotten rather busy, so I haven't been very prolific at blogging, to say the least! ...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/11/herringbone-coat-project.html

These photos (much belated, I'm afraid) are of a knit dress that I made back in late January/ early February. I haven't posted them until now because I'd hoped to take better ones, but as it look...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/05/vogue-8663-teal-knit-dress.html

Just a few shots of a knit top I made for my sister this past Saturday. I had some extra material left over from my scarf-collar top , so I put it to good use by cutting out another top from Simp...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/05/all-in-days-work.html

Since I've been working with knits more, lately, I've been trying to fill in some of the "gaps" in my wardrobe that I wasn't bold enough to face with my own sewing in the past. I have been needin...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-sewing-with-jalie.html

Just thought I'd share a few photos of an apron that I made for my sister. Admittedly, this a project that I worked on in December, so these pictures are a little belated (better late than never,...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/02/simplicity-2492-bird-apron.html

This is a top that I made over the holiday season and was my last "finished object" of this passing year. I've been wanting to get more practice with sewing knits on my serger, and since Jalie 29...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-first-jalie-pattern.html

Just thought I'd put in one last blog entry before this new year (I've been having computer issues lately, so my posts have been few!). This is a dress I made to give as a Christmas gift this yea...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-new-year.html

Here's my second version of Simplicity 4076. This one has the same cut as my first top, in respect to the neckline and lengthened hem (see the details here ), except this time around, I allowed a...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-knit-top.html

This is a brown and tan printed top, which I completed early last week, using Simplicity 4076 (view D) and a length of polyester jersey. As evidenced by the other projects I've posted, I haven't...

http://r-sewing.blogspot.com/2010/07/brown-knit-tops.html