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1940’s Tea Dress Sewalong No. 4: Assembling the Bodice
Hello lovely sewalongers! We hope you managed to get through the measuring, tracing and cutting unscathed and are ready and raring to start SEWING! Woohoo! Today we’re going to be constructing the...
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1940’s Tea Dress Sewalong No. 5: Constructing the Skirt
How did you all get on with your bodices? We bet they’re looking lovely! This sewalong we’re going to be constructing the skirt, before attaching it onto the bodice. It’s a bit more relaxed today than...
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1940’s Tea Dress Sewalong No. 6: Making and Inserting the Sleeves
Today we’re back and raring for more, so we’re going to show you how to insert the sleeves into your dress. We’re going to start off doing a couple of lines of ease stitching around the sleevehead....
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1940’s Tea Dress Sewalong No. 7: Conquering the Invisible Zip
Hello lovely sewalongers! How is your dress coming along? Hands up who’s got their sleeves in! If you have then you’re ready to move on. So here we go: it’s zip time. The first thing we’re going to do...
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1940’s Tea Dress Sewalong No. 8: Attaching the Facing
Hi everybody, How did the dreaded zip insertion go? We hope it was plain sailing and that if you weren’t before, you’re now converted to the magical ways of the invisible zip. We’ll be covering how to...
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1940’s Tea Dress Sewalong No. 9: Hemming
Hello sewalongers! Today we’re covering the very last step of our tea dresses: hemming! Now after all the steps we’ve been through to get to this stage, hemming is quite straight forward. Not long...
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1940’s Tea Dress Sewalong No. 10: The finished dresses!
The 1940’s Tea Dress sewalong is finished! Here’s ours… We made our version for our lovely manager Kate, who chose the teal polka dot rayon for her dress. We took the hem up about 10cm to keep it...
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How to Assemble a PDF Pattern
Did you know all of our sewing patterns are available in digital PDF format? That means you can buy a pattern and sew up a new dress in the very same day! In this blog post we’re going to guide you...
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Pattern hack: fully-lined sleeveless 1940’s Tea Dress
We have an guest amazing tutorial for you today – hacking the 1940’s Tea Dress! It’s a good ‘un, we promise. Over to you Jen… Hello everyone!! My name is Jen and I run Jennifer Lauren Vintage Patterns....
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