Last November – if I remember correctly – I came across an Instagram post announcing the classes Gretchen Hirsch aka Gertie would be teaching in 2019. At that time I was just beginning to dip my toes into sewing seriously again. I had a goal to get better at fitting my own body. It\’s hard […]
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I\’ve been making Gertie Night and Day dresses. I wrote a post about my plan back in March. Things haven\’t been going as smoothly as I expected and also, even though the pattern has the opportunity to make 72 different dresses I\’ve been focusing on the same bodice pattern with short sleeves and a self
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When I took a sewing class in high school there were no zippers. And it\’s funny that even though my mom sewed for other people my whole life I never paid attention to her zipper installation. When I went to Pennsylvania in January I asked her to walk me through how she does it. I
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