Heirloom Update

Between other sewing jobs and mundane housework my heirloom project is coming along slowly yet surely. I am working on the collar pieces.  I have decided to work on the pieces of the dress that involve handwork first before tackling the construction of the dress as a whole...if I'm making sense.

Both the collar and sleeves have faggoting stitches that attach the main piece to some bias trim.  Both the collar and sleeves are piped as well.  I made some piping out of royal blue baby check gingham.

Below I'm posting some pictures of the progress on the collar pieces:

 Here I'm making the piping.

 I snipped close to where the piping cord is sandwiched between the fabric to allow the piping trim to lay neatly around the collar and stitched with my piping foot.

 Here the trim and the main collar piece are pinned to some tracing paper ready for the faggoting stitch.

 I am new to this stitch but starting to get the hang of it. :)

Here is the first collar piece with the faggoting stitches completed.  Now on to the other collar piece!

Thanks for reading my blog,

Marla

Back to my Heirloom Project

I had to take a break from working on my Summer Garden heirloom dress to do some embroidery work for a customer.  I need to learn more about digitizing designs and just recently found out I have a wonderful training DVD by Trevor Conquerwood with Sunset Stitches in Canada.  So I reviewed a few of the lessons on lettering.  There is about ten hours of lessons for me to watch someday!  I finished the lettering and embroidered the shirts and a jacket for my customer.  She was happy, so I'm happy! :)

While I'm talking about lessons, I just got a DVD set by Kenneth King on fitting called Smart Fitting.  So some more videos to watch in my spare time.

But right now, I hope to get back to work on my little dress.  I finished the smocking and embroidery and also the embroidery on the collar pieces.  Below is a picture of the embroidery for one of the collar pieces.  Now that the embroidery is done I'm ready to cut out the collar pieces.

I also cut some bias pieces out of royal blue baby check gingham that will be used for some trim on the dress.  I'll post pictures later showing the trim.

Thanks for reading along!

Marla