The Cascade Champagne Silk Wool and Silk Charmeuse Dress
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Silk Wool charmeuse champagne long dress crossover cascade gown Cascade Champagne Silk Wool & Silk Charmeuse Dress I really don’t know what I was thinking when I decided to enter Burdastyle’s pattern challenge and downloaded their cascade dress pattern. Not only did I think I would have time to sew the dress, but I also planned to embroider its top crossover edge.! Fortunately, I was able to bypass sleep and finish sewing the dress just before the deadline. However I was unable to finish the embroidery. At this point, I’m not sure if I will add its embroidery.. (I think I will save it for a dress I know I’ll wear more often.) I don’t particularly like this dress. There are too many details going on. And I really don’t like the ruffle on the shoulder. Perhaps I’m boring, but I feel like I’m a mermaid with a seashell on my shoulder. (I had one sister laugh and call it a croissant, while another sister called it a perogi.) If it weren’t a Burdastyle pattern challenge, I probably would have eliminated the ruffle, (with no hesitation). I recently received this really special Christmas gift from my aunt. It’s a necklace with a photo of my babcha (grandmother)on one side and photo of my dido (grandfather) on the other side. The top bodice is lined with ivory silk charmeuse. Originally the skirt was lined with ivory silk charmeuse too, but I ultimately eliminated it. The two silk layers did not fall nicely together and it created more bulk at the hip. (This was a headache considering I had to seam rip everything apart and then hand-stitch the skirt edges again!!)

I real­ly don’t know what I was think­ing when I decid­ed to enter Bur­daStyle’s pat­tern chal­lenge and down­loaded their cas­cade dress pat­tern. Not only did I think I would have time to sew the dress, but I also planned to embroi­der its top crossover edge! (Vote for your favorite dress here) For­tu­nate­ly, I was able to bypass sleep and fin­ish sewing the dress just before the dead­line. How­ev­er I was unable...

Sewing with Silks Webinar on Burdastyle
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how to sew, preshrink, wash and cut silk burdastyle webinar

Sign-up for the webi­nar I’m giv­ing on Bur­dastyle this Thurs­day! This webi­nar is for begin­ners and inter­me­di­ate sew­ers. (But if you’re an expe­ri­enced seam­stress, you might learn a cou­ple new tricks.)  If you strug­gle with get­ting your ten­sion right on your machine (both domes­tic and indus­tri­al machines), this is the course for you too!  Course Descrip­tion: Do you have piles of silk build­ing up in your fab­ric stash? Are you unsure how...

Fashion Tips & Tricks For This Season August 2014
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Anoth­er Ana­gras­sia arti­cle in the August 2014 issue of Sassy Magazine! Read the arti­cle on Sassy’s web­site  here...

Sewing a Wedding Dress
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Sewing wedding dress

Week 3 of My Sis­ter’s Wed­ding Dress Last week was packed full of work, projects & fun! Again I’m find­ing it extreme­ly dif­fi­cult to sit down and write a full post to guide you through week 3 of the wed­ding dress build. But here goes… First, I fin­ished stitch­ing the hem using a rolled hem­ming foot. I typ­i­cal­ly hand stitch my hems, but due to lack of time and the silk being...