Making a Metallic Shantung Bodice ✨
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Is it a blouse? Is it a jacket? Eh, both ish? Today I'm going over how I drafted the pattern and sewed up this metallic shantung bodice from the Arcana look book!
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Thank you for watching!
GORGEOUS. That fabric is so lovely. When you said about no-one can tell there's another line of stitching at the front attaching the placket unless they're far too close to you - I recently started a shirt with a partial zip on the front and I was annoyed the stitching isn't perfect. My mum told me if anyone is looking that closely at my chest, I will probably have other concerns than them seeing my stitching. Namely getting away from the creep staring at my chest.
Thank you! Yeah if people are close enough to examine your stitching they are indeed too close 😂
I love your voice and calm manner of explaining things. You are a very experienced and talented sewist/ designer/ beetle embroiderer. You don’t try to make your videos overly cinematic and stimulating and instead just focus on the creative process. Your videos work both as ASMR and a great source of sewing knowledge. Please never change. 💚🪲
Thank you!
Whilst I know you have been trained in designing clothing, you also have such a wonderful imagination to come up with these wonder clothes. And you explain the process of going from basic block to gorgeous garment so well, it gives us nere mortals hope 😊
Thank you Sam!!
I don’t think we talk enough about just how gorgeous you are!!!
I love what you’re doing. You’ve taught this old woman a lot!!!!!
I taught myself how to sew and started as a child. I’ve always found patterns chaotic for me preferring to design for myself. I’ve always wanted a custom block pattern but never knew how to do it and never gave making one or modifying it a chance. It was too much like the math class that was way too above my head. You make it seem so simple. Thank you ❤️
This bodice is very nice! It will be my inspiration for one I need to gear up for Christmas.
Again, thank you!
Thank you Lisa!! I think this would be a great Christmas bodice for sure ✨ I need to go get the red fabric so I can make one!
Puff goals
This fabric is what dreams are made of 💚🩵💙 sooo gorgeous 😍
Absolutely love it. Iridescent shiny fashion is such a wonderful look. Total eye catcher. I just recently got a Iridescent taffeta jumpsuit. Absolutely love it.
Thank you! All hail shiny fabrics 🤩
@TheClosetHistorian I'm going to nickname you the shiny queen. Very fitting for your absolutely fabulous shiny stylish fashion.
really convenient timing for me to watch you discuss linings when I'm making a leather skirt and wandering what's best to line it with!
Please make a version of this with the embroidery you didn’t have time to add on this bodice. And perhaps add the extra puffy sleeves to it as well for good measure. Love how this came out. Absolutely stunning!
Thank you Jennifer! I definitely want to ✨
You are such a wonderful pattern maker and seamstress. I truly love this outfit❤❤
Thank you Carol!!
Oooh...the extra sleeve detail!
Lots of layers and all are important. Beautiful bodice.
Thank you!
I'm glad you made it to Elfriedes! I knew her well. I first shopped in her store in 1976 when I was doing costumes for the King and I. We took tailoring classes together. She and her husband were from Germany. I loved her because she understood that you had to touch fabric. I'm sorry that the new owners went over to quilting cotton, but I'm glad they kept some high end stuff. Yay!
Elfriede is still around! I talked with her in August (I got a pattern from 1908 that came with no instructions and she gave me advice on how to put it together). Very cool that you have that history with her. :)
She is still there and is so awesome! She's always so excited to talk about fabric, I love the joy in that shop!
I have zero design or sewing experience besides the bit of knitting my grandmom taught me. But I just love watching your videos. Your style, your delivery of the information, I dont know, it is just so satisfying to watch. Thank you so much for your content. ❤
Thank you Jodie!
I wish there was a way you could sell your work. Patterns, clothing, beading...all of it. So much talent
The grey tone plus the shoulder detail reminds me of a pauldron, the original power shoulder. If the puff was a different colour the bodice plus sleeve cap would look like a cuirass. Well done!
I love that you love QI. I've learned so many useless but interesting things from that show! I highly recommend Black Adder if you haven't seen it already. The period costumes are fabulous! Thank you for another great tutorial! You look stunning as always 🙂
Turned out great! I'm envious of your being able to work with such fabrics. I'm the biggest fan of lining clothes. Its rare these days. By the way the lining is to die for!
Please go and buy theater, opera, ballet and symphony tickets. One for each art form and you can enjoy your creations. Ignore odd looks and enjoy yourself. I'm overdressed by American standards but oh well.
Thank you Susan!!
Love the sleeve caps and would love to see them exaggerated in a new version!
I live watching the piece being made! You make the process look so easy!
The finished result is gorgeous - and I reckon you should wear your outfits in everyday life. Everyone else would feel underdressed!
Amazing video as always. So good to watch.
Thank you!!
That fabric is amazing and you look GORGEOUS!
Thank you Ann!
The sleeves truly are a success, I think! I love the way that little cap sleeve sits just on top of the puff!
Thank you Katie! These sleeves very fun since they behaved like balloons once gathered up 😂
Always fun and inspiring to watch you work. I love the philosophy of making garments for the life you want and hope for yourself. The garment is gorgeous of course and thank you for sharing!
Thank you Tiffany!
Lovely it's so amazing to watch you just change up the pattern! I'm learning a lt
Team topstitching, all the way!
How gorgeous is that fabric? I loved seeing it in daylight, too -- less shiny, but an unexpectedly saturated hue. That back neckline treatment is so elegant yet sinister.
Thank you Laurel! This is a fabric that looks super different in each lighting situation for sure, but always fun ✨
👸 of shiny metallic fabrics! Thank you for showing all your pattern manipulations. It's such a blessing to learn from you 🙌
Thank you!!
As ALWAYS….. it’s fantastic!
Thank you Suzanne!
Such a great job! I love it. Every time I watch you sew on your sewing machine, it makes me remember learning to sew, and really loving it. My mother had that same machine. Sadly, after We both got new machines in 1974, she gave it away to a relative. Still wish that I had it! Still sew on my "new" machine from the 70's. Have many other sewing machines, but still think how wonderful that machine was. Sews equally well on all materials, not stretch. Thick or thin. It is hard to explain how good these older machines are! I really hope that you have many fancy places to wear your fantastic wardrobe soon!
Thank you Terry Sue! Old machines are the best machines, I'll never go back to new now I know!!
Really stunning. The color is so interesting in lamplight, like a beetle. I love it.
Thank you Vicki!
I’m so fascinated by your pattern tweaks. It makes me so want to take classes to learn. My favorite clothing company has closed, and therefore I’m going to have to learn to make my own skirt sport.😢😢😢😢😢 that and my scarf tops… a serger will be required.
Love the shiny stuff 😻 I like the way the collar is shaped, like little wings in the back. Little points every where but they make it look cool 😎
Thank you!! Always more shiny coming right up 😅✨
Beautiful. I love the lining.
Thank you! This lining is too good 🤩
Incredible. I am always amazed by your creations. You look lovely!
Thank you Adriana!
Amazing! I love watching your videos especially watching you patterning.
Thank you Simone!
How absolutely stunning! It's a beautiful design, with such gorgeous accessories! Hope you're out, having a ball, because your video has made my evening! Best wishes from Czechia.
Thank you!! ❤
Fantastic! I was planning on heading to my sewing machine, but you caught me! Between your lovely voice, wit, design and fabric choices I was mesmerized. I need to go back to earlier videos so you can keep me in your sewing spell full time!
Thank you Deborah!
You have de mystified the process of the raised neckline for me . Thank you I am having visions of that style in a fine wool type fabric dress ..perfect for a North Eastern UK winter (We have 9 months of winter and 3 months of bad weather!)
I have been using this neckline so much on things this year! Easy and fun ✨
This was such fun to watch. Lovely.
Thank you!!
amazing work of art Ms. B!!✨👏🏁
Thank you Marcco!
Love QI. And, your metallic clothes are quite interesting too.
Thank you Kathy!
That brooch from the intro is so cool! Also _love_ the outfit you made, I just wanted to say I appreciate your brooches
Thank you! I love a giant brooch ❤✨
Woohoo you're amazing 🎉. Just finished my bodice block thanks to you and the book. I would have been stuck with struggling with I'll fitting store bought patterns if you wouldn't have inspired me to make my own! Thank you thank you thank you.
Good work!! Now the real fun begins! ✨
Just gorgeous! The colors are beautiful, and the details are just so perfect! You amaze me with your talent. ❤️
Thank you Beth!!
beautiful! love this whole collection🤩🤩
Thank you!!
Always excited to see your videos
Thank you Debra!
You're brilliant, Thank you for showing me how to correct a mistake I did on a high-end waistcoat and who knew a simple dart/split makes or breaks the flow of the garments ... I'm a noob forgive us
Thank you!!
STUNNING ~
Thank youuuu!!
OMG you look exactly like the Mistress of the Copper Mountain from the Ural mountains folklore. Black hair, gorgeous green dress and a headdress. She owns all the riches that are not discovered yet and are laying underground. She can gift you something precious if you behave decently on her territory and she likes you.
Look her up, there are some articles in English and multiple pictures from talented artists!
This lady sounds most excellent indeed ✨
Simply gorgeous!!!
Thank you!
Incredible!❤
So elegant
Thank you!
I just discovered a modal rayon blend that looks rather shiny. The listing says modal satin. I have modal cotton shirts that are euphorically soft and breathable for the summer heat (I may have bought like 6 or so of them lol)
What a beautiful bodice! I love the sleeves a lot.
Thank you! They were very fun to sew since they held their own shape so well 😂🧵
Incredible style lines!!!!!!!! xxxxxxxx
Thank you Alexandra!!
Beautiful! Love it! Would love to see it in black.
ALSO!
Did we talk about the necklacey chain thing? Because, if not, we definitely need to.
Thank you Michelle!! I made the order of the beaded beetle in this video ua-cam.com/video/mtKapNh2DDM/v-deo.html ✨
Shangung is a favorite fabric, but too expensive and too hot to wear in the tropics, were I live. Still, I LOVE this. Wish I could wear it, too.
Thank you Sherrill!
This is beautiful as always!
Thank you!!
Very lovely and so enjoyed.
Thank you!!
@@TheClosetHistorian dropped off my great grandmother’s Singer 221-1 from 1948 at my local sewing shop for cleaning and new cords on the foot pedal. He was surprised how good it looked. Next up is some TLC for the card table that it fits in. Sewing lessons in the new year. Thank you for inspiring me to try sewing again.
Beautiful 🍀☘️
Thank you Nina!
Very pretty 😀
Thank you!
Similar to your embroidered necklace idea, I’ve had this idea sat in my head for several years of a jacket of some kind with a beaded pharaoh collar but I don’t have any of the skills to make that a thing. So if you feel so inclined, please use this idea!
I actually had a beaded collar plan in the copper shantung that would have been very Egyptian but again ran out of time!! Many projects landed in the "no time!!" bucket for this last look book 😅
That is how I often sew, too: Pretend it is purposeful. It works!
Love it. Rachel from blade runner gone to the opera
Thank you Kellie!
I’m also on team topstitching
also a fan of topstitching! :)
Just beautiful.
Thank you Yvonne!
Hexquisite!!!
So the bug brooch you're wearing at the very beginning of the video, did I miss the making of that? It is stunning! It goes without saying that the shantung bodice piece is wonderful since all your designs are beautiful. I agree with @lisaneedsaname. We should say more about "just how gorgeous you are!!!" I would love to have your hourglass figure.
Thank you Beatrice! The bug brooch on my sweater is a vintage rhinestone one from etsy!
I love that beetle on your top. Don't all those layers make this bodice hot? Your finished bodice is beautiful.
Thank you! Not too hot in this one no, the shorter sleeve helps 😅
Yes, one in black and maybe one in purple as well…
The ellie caulkins opera house in Denver is a great place to get dressed up to visit. Highly recommend getting a season pass ;)
That would be the way to do it, but an investment 😅 If I were closer maybe, but it would be a todo to get down there all on my lonesome, I need a chauffer as well 🤣
@@TheClosetHistorian They have their own parking garage right next door. My husband and I used to go when we lived in wheatridge. Parking otherwise would have been a nightmare. Downtown isn't particularly nice for driving though, so it's understandable if you didn't want to go that route either
FABULOUS, BIANCA DAHLING! UTTERLY FABULOUS!!! WHERE DID YOU GET THAT SCRUMPTOUS BROOCH?
Thank you Dottie! I found the rhinestone brooch buddy on Etsy!
Stop it, you.... This is great!
Thank you Kelli!!
I hope I will be able to make my bodice block this weekend. Since like forever I try to do it and it does not fit 😢 the darts are either too pointy or to low or to bulky or all of them together.
Now back to watching the wonder of creation! ❤
Love this project and question would in future make sleepy hollow dress, but in your style?
Thank you! Which Sleepy Hollow dress did you have in mind?
@TheClosetHistorian Both pink dress (think pink) one main characters fillm. Plus famous black and white dress.
Move to Maryland, ballet/opera/museums in DC? :)
OMG I just noticed the blue eyes. F**k me that's stunning. I can't even.
Thank you! They are very fun 😂
بسیار زیبا و جذاب❤
❤ Gorgeous as always Bianca & the reticule!?! 🎉
P.S. Keep at least six feet from me- Thank you very much. ❤😅
Thank you!!
What year is your singer machine? I’m Considering purchasing one. Thanks for your help. Love your videos
Thank you! My Singer is a 1955 99k!
I love this piece and your wardrobe but are you saying there are no arts in Denver?
Thank you! There are shows here too...but tickets are super expensive here and you have to pay for parking on top of that and ehhh...in London it's so easy! Take the tube and get to have a cocktail then too 😂✨
So beautiful. Fyi my bead beetle army is at 5 and growing... Which is your fault. I also want to add a moth to the army too. I have so many big shapes sketched out on felt waiting to be filled in with shiny things.
Thank you! And I am very happy to hear about the expanding insect menagerie ✨
@@TheClosetHistorian I have even planned a bee for my mum 🐝. And discovered cheap white pencil eyeliner is great for sketching ideas and shapes onto dark coloured felt 😁
White or silver gel pen works too ✨✨@@loonybinreject
Sigh...if only I could go to Nordstrom's and buy some of your gorgeous designs. Have I mentioned how natural you look in a crown? But
Thank you Karla!
Can you show how you did this skirt pattern??
I can make a video yes!
yessss mama!! slay
😂✨
@@TheClosetHistorian i feel like half my comments on your channel are "and thats why she is the only valid youtuber. in this essay i will--" and the other half are just "you better work bitch!!!"
What do you use as your bodice block? Is it card stock or poster board? I’m trying to figure out what to buy.
Mine is made from poster board yes!
@@TheClosetHistorian thanks!
xXX👍👍👍