Sustainable Fashion Plaid Jackets, Solid Wool Cape, and Wool Leather Coats for Midwest Family
Burdastyle, childrenswear, Coat, for sale, Marusya, New York City, Outerwear, Sustainable Fashion, Tweed, Womenswear, Wool, Wool Coat
girls wool coats

What will the world look like in 20 or 30 years? Will peo­ple con­tin­ue to wear dis­pos­able cloth­ing? (The aver­age life span of a gar­ment is 3 years.) Will fast fash­ion com­pa­nies exist? Will the fash­ion indus­try con­tin­ue to be the #2 pol­luter in the world? These are the ques­tions being asked in the fash­ion indus­try right now. Not only are fash­ion com­pa­nies wast­ing mil­lions of pounds of unsold gar­ments...

Bridesmaid Dress Progress: Excitement and Discontent
Bridesmaid, Couture Sewing, Dress, Dresses, Katie Wedding 2013, Wedding, Womenswear
how to sew your own bridesmaid dress

Post­ed Sep­tem­ber 9, 2013 Part of the Katie’s DIY Wed­ding Series Floral Bridesmaid Dress Pat­terns: McCal­l’s 6518, Sim­plic­i­ty 1606 Nee­dles Bro­ken through this project: 1 I could­n’t wait to  get start­ed on this project!  Every week that I saw the fab­ric lay­ing next to the oth­er fab­rics, I itched to get start­ed pat­tern­ing, cut­ting and sewing! I loved the col­ors with all the oth­er fab­rics, jew­el­ry, shoes, and threads!  Below we...

Anagrassia Lace Leotards & Tulle Flower Girl Dresses
Atelier, Bergdorf Goodman, Bodysuits, bridal separates, childrenswear, Communion, Couture Sewing, customer, Dress, Dresses, Floral, Flower Girl, for sale, Lace Bodysuits, Wedding
lace bodysuit flower girl dress

Best Selling Flower Girl Dresses Pub­lished May 19, 2014 Mary Grace God­frey is the design­er and seam­stress behind the Ana­gras­sia label. Ana­gras­sia launched in 2013 with the trend­set­ting adult bridal sep­a­rates and “Flower Girl” dress­es, which were lace (lined) body­suits with tulle skirts. Since then, the brand has expand­ed its spe­cial occa­sion out­fits and cus­tom orders to include bap­tismal, Com­mu­nion, Bat Mitz­vah, and Quinceañera gowns and dress­es. Recent­ly, Mary Grace has focused her atten­tion...

Blue Bridesmaid Dress
Bridesmaid, customer, Dress, Dresses, for sale, Wedding
Blue Bridesmaid Dress with bow

A cou­ple weeks ago, a lady asked me to (lit­er­al­ly) whip up a brides­maid dress for her! Pub­lished on Novem­ber 27, 2013 Blue Bridesmaid Dress with Bow and Sleeves On Sun­day, she approached me and asked if I could make her a blue brides­maid dress before her wed­ding on Sat­ur­day. Her orig­i­nal dress no longer fit her and the style/quality did­n’t suit the occasion. I told her if she bought the fab­ric and pat­tern before...

Independence Day Shirt
Marusya, Menswear, Patriotic

Skill Lev­el: Easy Sup­plies: 1 yard red striped knit fab­ric, 1 yard of blue knit fabric Serg­er Scis­sors Card­board paper Sil­ver paint and paintbrush Male Body block pattern Step 1: Mak­ing the Sil­ver Stars -Lay­out the blue knit fab­ric over newspaper -Cre­ate a star sten­cil out of cardboard -Paint sil­ver stars on the blue fab­ric using the stencil  Step  2: Use a men’s knit body (bodice) block pat­tern and trace (using an...

Long Floral Kimono Jacket
Easter, Floral, Jacket, Jackets
Long Floral Jacket

Pub­lished April 7, 2018 Hap­py East­er! (Read more about my East­er dress here and Gigi’s East­er dress here) Here are pho­tos of my Flo­ral East­er Jacket.  I used Bur­dastyle’s 08/2016 Coat #116 pat­tern. (Pat­tern adjust­ments: FULLY LINED, SIDE SLITS, LOWER BACK PIECE CUT ON FOLD) I used the Egypt­ian cot­ton lin­ing scraps from Beranger’s jack­et. Work In Progress…Choosing the pock­et design and placement....