Vogue 8552 Linen dress
August 11th, 2009 in reader's closet
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I recently purchased this linen after taking "the little black dress" class with Susan Khalje. I wanted to include the techniques I learned in her class. I learned how to install a hand picked lapped zipper and the proper way to do underlining, among other things. The underlining is carefully cut on grain for each piece and hand basted to the wrong side of the fashion fabric around the edge on the seam line. At this point your fashion fabric and underlining become one. After each seam is sewn together, the basting stitches are removed. The underlining will help keep the linen from getting too wrinkled during wear. It also gives the fabric more body. The zipper was put in by hand using a picked stitch. You get amazing control and the zipper looks really nice and is just as durable as if sewn by machine. As you can see the zipper is completly hidden and the stitches are barely visible.
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