My sewing student showed up this afternoon, delighted by her success with her top and raring to make a dress. She found a chartreuse knit in my stash, from a knit bundle from http://www.fabricmartfabrics.com/ . (The actual color is less bright than the more stridently colored photo but brighter than the darker photo.) My student thought that it would look terrific made up into a dress with a woven bodice. The rational part of me was thinking, this kid has had maybe eight sewing lessons. I have never done such a thing. And it isn't an easy thing to figure out. Maybe this isn't the best idea in the world. I warned my student that this will be hard and that if I were a normal sort of a sewing teacher I would say no to this idea which is probably past her current skills. My student, though was undaunted. First I had to figure out how to engineer a woven bodice. Thankfully, my student was willing to have just the front of the bodice be woven. She was also ready for the weaving to b...
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