The Colette Sewing Book Blog Series - Intro
I
have been thinking about moving into the wearable clothes arena for a while. I
wanted to keep sewing but didn’t want to do costumes. I frequently see fun
clothes or fabrics that I would love to wear and I want the power to make them
myself and, most importantly, perfectly fitted to my body and personality! This
means I need to brush-up on pattern making.
I decided to buy the Colette Sewing
book. It’s made for the beginner to intermediate sewer. While I’m no beginner
and some of the stuff was old hat some things like proper interfacing was great
to read up on. One of my favorite things about the book is that it takes the
time to talk about making things that are practical to the your personal
wardrobe. I think that reality check is needed because without it I have a
feeling I would be pumping out lots of cute dresses with little wearability.
Colette also takes it one step
farther by providing several clothing projects from a cute skirt to a fitted
dress, with accompanying patterns, which steadily build on the sewers
techniques and difficulty skill. I think working through these projects will
brush away the sewing cobwebs and keep me focused. I’m pretty excited!
So
I’m going to start a series of blogs, interspersed with everything else, called
“The Colette Sewing Book Series” that chronicle each sewing project. I will
post the project picture and the fabrics I’m considering for it and you can
tell me which fabric you like best!
See you soon!
