Hey guys it's Haley at Seamwork and today I'm gonna take you behind the
scenes for the fabrics from the September issue of Seamwork. We always
get a ton of questions about what fabrics we used what works best and so I
like to share a little bit of our fabric selecting process. So let's start with
the Ace top. Ace is a fitted top with this really cool self-faced funnel neck. It
has a little bit of negative ease, so for this project you're gonna want something
that's a light to medium weight knit that has a good amount of stretch to it -
that negative ease is really going to require that. So the three fabrics that
we used are this bamboo lycra knit. It's really lightweight and drapey. You can
see in some of the images that neckline kind of collapses and I think that's a
really pretty soft look, so if you're going for something like that choose
something really light and drapey. And the ivory fabric is the exact same
fabric in a different colorway. We're obviously very partial to that look and
then for our third sample we used a rib knit. I just think that this is a really
cool textural look for fall. This is a rayon and spandex blend and again it's
just really soft and drapey. If you want to make something that's a little more
structured don't be afraid of using something like a cotton or merino blend.
Just make sure it's stretchy enough. Let's talk about Bryn. So for the Bryn
dress this dress has a little bit more structure - it's one part shift dress one
part pinafore. It has a lining and a center back zipper, plus the French darts and
some fisheye darts in the back. And I think that's something that's more in
the medium to heavy-weight range shows off the silhouette of this dress really
nicely. So for this sample I went with a denim.
The denim that we chose, I would say that it's in like the probably about the 7
ounce weight range, definitely more medium-weight as far as denims go, and I
just really like the dark wash I think it's really forgiving to sew with, it
goes with everything, who doesn't like that. For the lining we
wanted a lining that was gonna stand up to this denim, something that wasn't too
lightweight, so we went with bemberg. I talked about bemberg a little bit last
month. Just really my favorite lining fabric - it's really soft, easy to work
with, and it stands up really great to something with a little bit more body.
And then we have our Bryn bonus. The Bryn bonus is pretty similar to the
regular Bryn, but it omits the lining and the center back zipper, and then adds
some center front buttons so you can get in and out easily. If you have something
in your stash that's a little bit lighter weight that you have in mind for
Bryn, I think the bonus is gonna be a really good option for you because
something lighter weight may not need to be lined.
We used a corduroy, I would call this a medium weight corduroy it's not
particularly heavy. It is a 14 wale. With corduroy something to know is that the
higher the number, the narrower the whale. So if you chose a 21 whale your
stripes would be a little bit narrower than this guy. It's a hundred percent
cotton and I think that if you're just diving into napped fabric, corduroy is
a super great place to start. Those are our September fabrics make sure to pop
over to Seamwork.com to see the issue and hop on the community if you're a member
and tell us what you think. Thanks for joining me and happy sewing!