Sewing Q&A at Sewing With Sandi

he simple art of getting the hip curve of your garment at the spot where you body’s hip curve resides can be achieved in a few short steps. Let’s get started with learn to sew – hip draping.

I can draft patterns, and you can learn too, however, when we start with a commercial pattern we like, why reinvent the wheel — or in this case the garment. The tools we need in our sewing tool box is a pattern we love and the knowledge of how to manipulate it to fit our body. That’s what you will find below.

I can’t count the times a sewist comes to me with a project and proudly displays a box of her grandmother, auntie, or mom’s sewing thread. You know that precious sewing box that holds all the latest tools and thread colors from the 1950s! Think about what has been happening to that thread all these years. It has aged, deteriorated, and is no longer state-of-the-art construction material.