Doris Stitches

Something corporate and sweet for my beautiful client 🥰. It's the way she modelled it like a boss lady for me. Made with love in Lagos and found its way to her in Benin city......Don't you just love?😍😍😍

In this fashion business, I have come to realise that you cannot know everything! Where your knowledge stop is where another person own start and that is why one need to constantly upgrade their skill. Sadly, upgrade is not cheap but you can start from YouTube.

For example, I wanted to make a double welt pocket on this blouse for my client. I have only tried making a single welt pocket but not the double one. Na so I enter YouTube o. Watched a couple of videos......I don't just watch one. I like to see different tutors approach and pick the simplest method. And the best part of YouTube is that you can always go back and rewatch any video any day any time.

After watching the videos, I practiced on some scrap fabric before attempting it on my main fabric and this is what I came up with in just my 1st trial.

What is the essence of this post? Make YouTube your friend. By the way, how did I do guys? Rate my work 🙂

When fellow designers talk about the difficulty sewing a*o oke fabric especially dealing with fraying edges, I thought they were just over exaggerating because I have worked with one before and it didn't fray that much. Then my client sent me this one and I was like omooooo! which kin wahala be this😩😫

My 2 inches allowance was gradually turning to 1 inch and the part I used ½ inch was almost disappearing. Thankfully some tips these designers shared came in handy such as interfacing your a*o oke fabric and weaving the edge of the sewing allowance.

At the end of the day, everything went well and my beautiful client absolutely loved her dress. Truly, experience is the best teacher 😅. You'll never know the in and out of some things until you experience it.

Happy Sunday Beautiful people. It's been a while. By the way, how does the dress looks?😊

*ookedress