Dear Constant Reader,
Happy Friday before Halloween!
Tomorrow we are at House of Hatchets in Hyannis. Wear your Halloween finery! Get tickets here!
On November 7th guest instructor Gaea Lady will be teaching a weighted veil workshop at B.A.B.E.!What is a weighted veil? Watch this…
Wouldn’t you like to learn to do that…? If you’re on our mailing list, you’ve got a discount code for the workshop (and if you’re not, sign up).
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To customize your costumes, Frankenstein your sewing patterns.
I’m not talking about digging them up from graveyards in the dead of night — I mean stitching different parts together. If you’ve got a pattern for a gown with a neckline you like, but the sleeves aren’t doing it for you, take the sleeves from a different pattern.
You do want to make sure that wherever you are grafting pieces together, that they fit together correctly. Check that the piece on the donor pattern is the same size and shape when it’s going to join the garment as the one you’re replacing before before you cut anything. You might have to do a little cosmetic surgery to adjust one or the other. This is especially important with sleeveheads and armscyes — you want those curves to match.
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Oh, The Glamourous Life! 
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