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| These young professional women are absolute
beginners to sewing, and all came to Jane one
evening for their first sewing lesson. Two
of them, Grace and Cate, have already completed
their first garment. Congrats! |
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| Cate wears her first garment...PJ pants. |
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| Grace is very proud of her bias skirt. |
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Jane helped Laura design this amazing skating
dress for her daughter Ellen. The crystals are
all glued on one at a time. The back looks
like it is laced, but also has an invisible zipper. |
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| On the ice, the dress appears to be strapless
since the glistenette doesn't show from a distance.
Although Laura has made many skating outfits for
Ellen, she admitted she had the most fun with this
one and relished every minute. |
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| Daria's first visit to Jane's sewing studio. |
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| Helen made a great sweater jacket from
fabric she found in the Jane's freebee pile. |
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Kathleen M will enjoy this new tee
shirt. |
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Alexis loves designing and will
attend the Fashion Institute for Design and Merchandising
(FIDAM) in the Fall Jane is teaching her how to drape one
of her designs on a dress form. |
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Jane
chose this fabric for Betty at Piedmont Fabrics
in Oakland. The perfect eye color for Betty. |
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Here is Betty's second
cute tee shirt. She made this one from
leftover fabric from a friend.
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Anne L. is
returning to sewing and has just bought a new serger.
She is experimenting with knits. This Loes Hinse
jacket made up well with fabric from Britex. |
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JoAnn F. has sewn a versatile denim jacket and
skirt. The denim has a slight surface design and also some
stretch. A timeless duo for JoAnn.
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Sally B
has just finished her denim skirt and it
goes great with her previously made T
shirt. |
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| Vicki G is taking part
in a 10K walk for breast cancer .Her
team is the tea garden ladies...hence
the flowers and T bags that are
decorating her bra . Participants
all wear bras over their clothing.
She is adorable. |
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Maria is using a hand dyed
sweatshirt as the base for her designer jacket. She
will then applique pieces of fabric on in a pleasing
formation. Maria was inspired at the Asilomar Retreat
by the work of another student that Jane had helped make an
appliqued sweatshirt. |
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Barbara is making a
beautiful jacket out of pieces of Japanese cottons. She places
fabric pieces on her design board, and when she likes
what she sees, she joins them together. She then
cuts out the pieces for the vest.
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Barbara couldn't wait to get this completed once
she had started! It is absolutely gorgeous, and suits her
in every way.
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Some of the fabric pieces were from Kasuri Dyeworks when they
were located in Berkeley. The pattern is called My Fuji Jacket from
Brensan Studios.
They have a gallery page showing this garment, and Barbara's certainly could
join their gallery. The pattern calls for 5 fabrics, or about 3+ yards.
Barbara chose to use more fabrics. |
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Barbara's bear. |
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