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Lola’s Palazzo Trousers

Discover the world of fashion for dolls with this guide on creating custom palazzo trousers. Learn the step-by-step process.
Frame Your Face with a Butterfly-Shaped Statement Collar

This neckline treatment is a way to perk up a basic blouse pattern. Learn how to create a wing-shaped collar to frame your face.
Vintage Lattice Collar Created from Fabric Strips

Although the lattice collar appears to be woven, it’s less complicated than that.
Learn How to Create a Sheer Illusion

When you can wear a dress that is perfectly proper but you still make heads turn, it’s a good night out. This vintage gown features black sequined embellishments encrusted on…
Learn How to Sew a Gorgeous S-Curve Cuff

This swirly, lacy s-curve cuff adds feminine drama to a delicate dress from the 1940s. It’s derived from a clever pattern manipulation that can be applied to many standard sleeve…
Make Giant Buttons a Garment Feature

Big, decorative buttons add drama to garments. At the same time, they pose problems: How do you attach buttons with extralarge holes rather than shanks, and what is the size…
Enhance Garment Edges with Echo Stitching

This circa 1940 rayon day dress must have been fairly simple to sew and fun to wear and accessorize. It offers a wonderful setting for extra details that highlight the…
Sew a Ribbon Bow Belt with a Hidden Closure

Adele Simpson’s dress-and-jacket outfit, shown on the back cover, features several delightful couture methods that give it star status. Each covered button displays a carefully placed woven square motif; the…
A Better Way to Appliqué

Embellished appliqué on a filmy background is lovely but may not seem easy to accomplish. Traditional appliqué methods require invisible hand stitches or heavy machine-sewn satin stitches— both of which…
How to Sew Floating Taffeta Bands

Silk tulle is extremely soft and sheer and it provides a different sewing experience from working with a woven fabric. Silk taffeta has a crisp hand, comes in a variety…

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Lola’s Palazzo Trousers

Frame Your Face with a Butterfly-Shaped Statement Collar

Vintage Lattice Collar Created from Fabric Strips

Learn How to Create a Sheer Illusion

Learn How to Sew a Gorgeous S-Curve Cuff

Make Giant Buttons a Garment Feature

Enhance Garment Edges with Echo Stitching

Sew a Ribbon Bow Belt with a Hidden Closure

A Better Way to Appliqué

How to Sew Floating Taffeta Bands

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Lola’s Palazzo Trousers

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Vintage Lattice Collar Created from Fabric Strips

Learn How to Create a Sheer Illusion

Learn How to Sew a Gorgeous S-Curve Cuff

Make Giant Buttons a Garment Feature

Enhance Garment Edges with Echo Stitching

Sew a Ribbon Bow Belt with a Hidden Closure

A Better Way to Appliqué

How to Sew Floating Taffeta Bands

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Live and Learn | Letter from the Editor

Reimagining a Couture Look by Galliano

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