The final post in the first time shoemaking series! My shoes are finished, and they fit! This post is all about the finished shoes, what I love, and what I'll do differently next time.
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Shoemaking: Lasting the Shoes
At LAST! This week, I’m lasting the shoes - giving them their foot-shape and shoe structure, and effectively finishing them up!
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Shoemaking: Cutting and Constructing the Shoe Uppers
Progress is happening over here! This week, I’ve sewn the uppers of my shoes together - plus their linings. Read on for tips, tricks, and things I tried to make the whole process go more smoothly!
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Making the Mockup: My First Handmade Shoes
Part Two of the First Shoe series! This time, I’m explaining the process of making my first mockup shoe - and look - it actually looks like a shoe!
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Shoemaking and Breadcrumbs: My First Attempt at Making Shoes
In which our intrepid (and probably actually crazy) maker decides to make shoes, and documents the materials- and information-gathering stages of the learning process.
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My First Jasika Blazer: and some exciting news!
Check it out! This week’s post is all about my first (that’s right, there’s already a second… and a third!) Jasika Blazer! I loved it so much, I finished it in a weekend! I’ve got this, and some other big news (!) so read on to find out what I’ve been up to lately!
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Coming Down from the Wedding Dress: Back to Basics
I’m back! This week, it’s a short one with a few thoughts on what it’s like to not be working on the wedding dress anymore, along with a few projects I worked on when I got my mojo back. Don’t worry, the mojo’s back in full swing now!
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Handmade Wedding Dress Chapter 14: The Photos, and the End.
It’s the end of the wedding dress posts! This week is mostly just a little wrap-up - all the links to the dress posts in chronological order, and a bunch of new photos of the dress!
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Handmade Wedding Dress Chapter 13: The Hem Party and Finishing Touches
The big day! This week’s post is the last of the dressmaking (though not the last of the wedding dress posts!) - I’m showing you how my friend Jay helped me level off the hem, how a group of eight fabulous sewing ladies got together to help me hand hem the dress, and a few other finishing touches.
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Handmade Wedding Dress Chapter 12: The Dress Meets The Embroidery
This week, yet another in a string of ‘moments of truth’ - the embroidery comes off the frame, is cut into pieces, and finds itself sewn to the bodice of the wedding dress!
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