THE MAKING OF AN INDEPENDENT FASHION LABEL
CHAPTER 11… The Cherry Dress is now sold out for 2016! Both prints went rather quickly! We have some big changes coming up for 2017, not just in what we will be producing, but also in our blog! I have really missed the days of my old blog, “Amy Stebbins…living a fashionable life”. It was […]
Over the course of my life, I have come to acquire many fabrics. Some I have purchased, and some have been given to me from family. Anyone into designing or making clothing will most likely have a “fabric stash,” and like me, some of these fabrics may have been sitting there for years, waiting to be […]
SAMPLE GARMENTS FOR MY WEBSITE…I have been working on perfecting some sample garments for my website. As you know, the “cherry sprinkles dress” was a “franken-dress” and it was made of two previous projects that I re-fashioned, and there wasn’t a pattern… I just sort of pieced things together as I went along.I am happy […]
I am almost finished putting my workspace together (I need to hang pictures and the window treatment) So I thought I would start to lay out a few things, and get ready to sew some pants and dresses. The trouser pattern I created while in school While going through all of my fabrics, I ended […]
Good Morning all, Today I am making the final patterns for my empire waist dress, for my CDFP class. This is the last project of the semester and our final. It will be presented with the notch collar jacket that I made. My first drafts for the empire waist dress. This is the top portion. […]
Here are the pants I had to create for my CDFP class. They are made of a lightweight denim chambray fabric. They are a bit big on me, but I have not washed them yet…so I am expecting a tiny bit of shrinkage, as they are 100% cotton.I made the pattern for these, and it […]