Hi FRIENDS!!!!!

I just saw that the incredible Rosery Apparel also posted a video about the Garden Dress (like yesterday!) and it's awesome so check it out too if you're keen!!

SENDING LOTS OF LOVE & THANKS FOR WATCHING!! hit me with those questions if you please!

French Seams: the Carly B Musical ! Featuring hit songs like: “Patchwork Your Fabrication,” “BIGGER Puff Sleeves Please,” and “Layers, Slayers”

My question to you, dear Carly, is, could you teach us how to be such a delightful, happy person?? Is this something that comes naturally to you, or do you work on it actively?

Hi Carly, trained Seamstress here 😊 I'm from Austria and actually went to a high school specialized on Fashion and Design, we had up to 14 hours a week of sewing for 5 years, plus additional classes like pattern drafting or fabric production technologies.. i chose to study IT after school though and just recently came back to sewing in my times off and found my love for it again.. the past ten years i just occasionally sewed some shirts for friends but never had as much joy as i have now that i'm sewing things for myself again 😅
Regarding learning different sewing techniques i would maybe recommend starting a binder with test pieces, like for example if you want to learn a new type of pocket, make a small sample that fits in the binder and keep it there. Its way easier to learn a new technique without having the stress of maybe ruining the whole garment because its the first time you are doing it. And you can always look back at your sample and immediately remember how to do it if it has been a while since you last made it (for some intricate things like the french seam to slit thing you did - which i also didn't know of until some weeks ago - maybe do all important stages of the process). Our binder in the end had so many different things, from different hand stiches over seam finishes, sown and hand stitched button holes, different types of pleats and amounts of gathering, pockets and so on..
Other than that i also learned a lot from all those shorts you get on social media
Really love your work and your personality, just recently found your channel and already watched so many videos.. always looking forward to find a new video of yours 😊

21:23 Bravo 👏 Standing ovation 👏 🏆

"there's no winners or losers in this game, there's only sewing" - my icon Carly B :hands-yellow-heart-red:

You should find an antique pin tucker foot. It makes it a lot easier. They used pin tucks at a lot in early 20th century clothing and our ancestors weren’t stupid. They wanted to be efficient, too!

You are a bundle of sunshine 🌞🌞🌞
Such a joy to watch! 🎉

Thank you so much for sharing this pattern! This video inspired me to buy it years ago, and Im finally sewing it together! I was super stuck on how to do the neckline binding, so thank you AGAIN for showing how to do it!! I hope your current sewing project is going well ❤❤❤

I love hearing that other sewists talk through how to put their pattern pieces together like I do 😂 “THIS is the back.”

I tested this pattern too and while I absolutely loveeee it, the pin tucks were challenging to wrap my head around! The process I ended up landing on personally was to ONLY mark  the center line of the pintick, fold, and pin maybe 4 times along the way, then I set my machine to a 1/4 inch width and sewed every pintuck. My first make I did try to mark three lines and press but it made it too stressful each time. I also didn’t cut the armhole under AFTER I finished my pintucks, just to be absolutely certain if my pintucks were too small or large it would still fit the pattern piece. I did trace where the shoulder guide should be but I’m glad I didn’t cut until after because every time my traces line was off from where the pattern actually was supposed to be 😅 but it was still so worth it in the end because the dress was gorg!

You likely already know about it, but the Pomodoro Technique is an excellent way to train focus. 25 minutes of work, 5 minutes of break. There's so much more to it, but as a creative with ADHD that enjoys finishing projects, the acknowledgment of the passing of time and the intentions of the work time is sooooo imperative. Hope this helps with something you didnt ask for 😅 ❤

Sew feminine and sweet. Thanks for the inspiration, and, above all, your infectious happiness! XoxoxoxoxoxoX……💕💚💕💚💕💚💕💚💕💚💕💚💕💚💕💚💕

This horse mic is everything! I would love to see you sew a horsegirl outfit, whatever that means to you 🥹

I loved the Chappell Roan brief interlude!

I just love your channel, you took away so much pressure that I for some reason have when it comes to sewing. Thanks to you I am starting my very first patchwork dress out of white scrap fabric and some light cotton curtains I thrifted. 🤗 hopefully I will finish it!

If you love pin tucks you'll love smocking!! No joke I'd love to see you try out smocking in a video, every single time I've watched someone do it I've been utterly entranced

Janelle of Rosary Apparel was inspired by your picture to make the same dress. You both are very passionate about sewing.

The horsey mike!  😂  I have horses and love sewing so you just made my day.  ❤  Bless you!

I love the french seam song lol, that will now be stuck in my head forever