Bobbins and Buttons patterns
How to add a panel to a dress or top pattern.
This is a tutorial to show how to add a panel to a simple top or dress. Its a fun way to colour block a simple style or add an additional fabric. In this tutorial I have used the little girls Rosie dressmaking pattern. I used Kona quilters weight cotton fabric in these pretty sugar…
The starting point of designing a dressmaking pattern.
Last week I launched my second dressmaking pattern – a girls dungaree pinafore dress. Part of my plan for my dressmaking pattern range is to include patterns for all the family. I started with kids patterns as I have a good selection that I designed for classes and have been using since the beginning of Bobbins…
Pattern testing Mary dressmaking pattern.
Its really important to me to test my patterns thoroughly before having them printed and going live. I think no matter how careful I feel I have been to dot all the i’s and cross the t’s I may have missed something or could perhaps have done something better or clearer. I am constantly on…
Introducing Mary! – New dungaree dress sewing pattern for girls
Here it is the long awaited next Bobbins and Buttons pattern. Tried, tested and ready to go….well almost… its at the printers! You can pre-order your paper copy here, it will be winging its way to you by 16th April. The download version will also be available very soon too. Mary is an A-line dungaree dress…
Introducing Bobbins & Buttons sewing pattern – Rosie pdf version.
Last year I launched my first dressmaking pattern the Rosie dress for little girls. A classic pinafore for beginners with the option to make it as a single sided or a reversible version for girls aged from one year to ten years. I had the plan to continue publishing my patterns regularly but that didn’t…
How to add heart shape pockets to your Rosie dress-tutorial.
As the theme of the week is a romantic one, I thought I would share this fun tutorial for how to add heart shaped pockets to your Rosie pinafore dress. Materials: Fabric – 2 x 20cm square for outer 2 x 20cm square for lining. Templates: heart shaped pocket placement heart shaped pockets pattern…
How to lengthen or shorten a dress or top pattern.
It’s easy to think if you want to add length to a dress or top that you can just add a few centimetres down from the hem, in some cases this does work. However if you have a shaped hem or have a hem facing, adding length to the bottom edge of your garment may…
Pattern testing the new Rosie pattern.
On the lead up to launching my first sewing pattern, I was keen to check the instructions and pattern were easy to use and made complete sense especially to beginners which are the target audience for this first pattern. I posted a blog post asking for people to test the pattern and was overwhelmed with the response. It…
Rosie -Launch of the first Bobbins & Buttons dressmaking pattern.
This has been rather a long time in the making, but at last here it is….my first real live buyable dressmaking pattern! When I first started teaching sewing classes, several years ago, I developed a whole range of patterns, mainly for kids clothing that I taught as workshops. These patterns were manually graded and available…
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