Martha Stewart could probably have taken some entertaining tips from my hosts - the entire evening was beautiful. After dinner we retired to Suzette's amazing sewing room and I was beyond pleased to see she had completed four complete dress and jacket sets from my book.
Suzette had also completed the dress and jacket set I had taught for the guild way back in 2002. As a teacher, it is greatly satisfying to see such beautifully embroidered and constructed FINISHED class projects.
I already have plans to go back to see my stitching friends in New Orleans in September of 2011.
I am going to be making this dress, well, three of them, actually, for Easter. Probably not the jackets, though, since I also have three matching doll dresses to make. My question is about interfacing the area of the skirt to be pleated. Your "Sew Cute..." book says to do this, yet I don't recall you mentioning this when you were in PBG, FL last spring. You said to interface the front yoke with the "Baby" interfacing from Farmhouse Fabrics. Is this what I need to use for the skirt also? Why does this area need interfacing?
ReplyDeleteThanks so much!
Jane
(I ran my first half-marathon in October; may try for a marathon next fall :) )