We firmly believe that anyone can sew anything with patience and perseverance, but sometimes it helps to understand how time-consuming or challenging a pattern will be to sew. Here's how we rate the difficulty of our patterns:
Beginner (⭑): Appropriate for a true beginner with simple style lines and details, quick to sew with no closures.
Confident Beginner (⭑⭑): Achievable for beginners who are willing to learn a new skill, may include more design features and techniques (ie. zippers, buttons, facings, etc). Relatively quick to sew.
Intermediate (⭑⭑⭑): More details and style lines, may include interesting details like a zipper fly or topstitching, projects can take 6+ hours to sew.
Advanced (⭑⭑⭑⭑): Still achievable for most sewists, but patterns will include more pieces and more details, and can take 8+ hours to sew.
Challenging(⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑): Complex, skill heavy projects like tailoring and bra-making. Again, achievable for most sewists but be prepared to spend 10+ hours on these types of projects.
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Channel your inner bohemian with the Alice Dress. An ode to the iconic silhouettes of the 60s flower power generation, this loose and flowing dress is carefree and comfy in one breezy package. Alice features a paneled bodice with a charming neck tie, and a gathered skirt that can be made mini or midi length. The gathered and billowy sleeves are integrated into the seam lines with a simple banded hem. There are countless ways to make Alice your own; we encourage you to play with border prints, colour blocking, and incorporating handmade touches like embroidery for a one-of-a-kind boho dream.
I can’t express how much fun I had putting this together. It tickled my brain doing a 5/8” FBA on a double darted bodice.
I used an African wax print. Next time I will French seam the trousers. I love the out come and I have had many compliments when wearing it.
This is an amazing pattern. I absolutely love it. Great directions, easy to follow. Only modification I made was to shorten the butt elastic to 60% (instead of 70%) so it was tighter across my bum. Otherwise the sizing was accurate. I will definitely be making this again!
I'm not a beginner sewer, and have made pants before, but for my first pair of jeans I am so glad I took the class. The written instructions are good, but so much of the struggle or simple doubt (is it this way or that way?) is removed because you can just watch Heather doing it! I especially appreciated a lot of the extra tips, such as which way to sew for easier easing of the legs together, or how best to grade seams, or simply all the comments about common pitfalls Heather has seen with students. I'm already thinking about making another pair, but if it takes me a few months I know I'll come back to refresh my memory for some of the tricky parts.
