Designing, Sewing, and Making Dresses

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This dress was sent to us from a designer in Africa. The detail and pleating on this is beautiful.

Jackie's adorable Marilyn Monroe Dress! 

Olivia makes her first dress. This dress had plenty of gathering and was made from a bright cotton fabric for summer.

Alexandra's new summer dress.  It has a back zipper, front facing, and halter top.

Two Favorite Sewing & Dress Making Books We Use Here at Love to Sew Studio Are:

Christine Haynes book "Chic & Simple Sewing." This is our all-time favorite sewing book to use for beginners to intermediate students in our studio, and full size patterns are included. This book is filled with adorable easy to sew dresses, skirts, and more for the modern hip girl!

We also have Wenlan Chia's  "Twinkle Sews" in our studio. It's definitely for the more advance student though! The patterns are on a disk and you can print them right on your own computer. We love her designs and youthful spirit in her collection of 25 pieces of clothing to make in this book.

Annie in her quick and easy jumper dress she made her first week of sewing camp!

Here is Chelsea's first dress she made!

Here is Emily's adorable jumper she made.  This was sew easy to make with a front and back on fold, sew up the side seams, add the double fold bias tape, and hem it!

Make a Summer Dress from a T-shirt & Fabric