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The Fair Fit Journal: Category: Projects & Studio Life

Welcome to your comprehensive library of fashion design and sewing resources, curated to help you bridge the gap between technical skill and creative vision. Whether you are mastering complex fit adjustments or defining your unique design voice, these archives provide the roadmap to creating a wardrobe that is authentically yours.

Projects & Studio Life

The Ultimate Creative Day Trip: Planning Your Sewing Retreat in Baton Rouge

We live in a digital world where "creativity" often means scrolling through Pinterest boards or watching 30-second sewing hacks on TikTok. But there is a massive difference between consuming creativity and embodying it. For many living in the bustling hubs of New Orleans, Lafayette, or the Northshore, the idea of learning to sew or perfecting a garment often gets pushed aside by the chaos of daily life. There is always laundry to fold, emails to...

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The Ultimate Guide to Sewing with Japanese Patterns: How to Master Minimalist Style

I've got another great weekend project for you! This one is for sewists looking for design inspiration and a more advanced project to improve your skills. In this post, learn all about working with Japanese Patterns and what you need to look for when working with this type of design. I will show you my process of working with the pattern, how to make it fit, how I sewed its details and finishing. Read along...

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Fair Fit Spring/Summer Dress Collection – Megan’s Dress and How I Designed Dress 7

 I can't wait to share Megan's dress with you today. In the development of the Fair Fit Method, and all of its courses, I am continuously testing the course with experienced makers in order to make sure my instructions are clear, the pattern is refined, and add more explanation that is helpful as the course grows and develops.Megan is an experienced fashion design PHD student at LSU, and I had the intention of working with...

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Fair Fit Spring/Summer Dress Collection – How I Designed Dress 5 and 6

Fashion really can't be copyrighted most of the time, even though there's been many battles fought for it.It's hard to copyright fashion design because clothes are designed from the same basic shapes that get changed over the years to adapt to trends. And the shapes go back 100's of years, so who really owns them? A wrap dress could be said to mimic Roman or Egyptian dress. When you really look at enough patterns, and...

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Fair Fit Spring/Summer Dress Collection – How I Designed Dress 1 and 2

In today's post, I wanted to show the process of making the Fair Fit Dress Collection for Spring and Summer 2018 a little more in depth. I'll focus on just the first two designs featured in the video and the process of collecting items from previous work and collections to use for repurpose. I also made a short video that breaks down the dresses, showing their previous incarnations, with a quick demonstration of the thought process...

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Creating a Fashion Collaboration: Introducing my Fair Fit Pattern

As I hinted at last week, I have decided to release my Fair Fit Dress as a sewing pattern and online workshop. The pattern actually goes beyond just a dress, because it is a customizable system of components and pattern pieces that build upon each other to make infinite variations.  If the first dress is well received, then throughout the year I plan on releasing each of the components that allow you to further customize...

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A #FairFitDailySew Update

I created a Fair Fit Daily Sew challenge for myself and a few students who were really interested in sewing, but needed a way to find time for their practice after I read a post by sewing blogger Christine Haynes about finding time for your sewing. I decided to give it a try and see what happens. Here is what I learned about the process and some steps for moving forward. 

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Can’t Find the Fabric You Had in Mind? Learn How to Make your Own

I'm doing a Print and Patch Workshop in March that you don't want to miss. When you know how to print your own patterns, you are no longer limited by what you can find at the store. Learning how to print your own fabric opens you up to beautiful possibilities in your clothing, interior design, and quilting. In this post, get a sneak peak at the process and learn more about this beautiful and inspiring...

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