This is by far the most perfect sewing video I've seen. I'm going to save it to my Sewing Challenge library and I will recreate it one day when I have the skill.
Marika, once again, your mastery of the skill of dress making shines forth. You have a true talent and it is a delight and privilege to watch you create such a wonderful gown. Brava! Brava!
Yup! And I'm NEVER going to be sewing a Regency - or any other type of - gown, since I mainly sew for myself. (I'm probably not confident enough in my fragile masculinity to pull off wearing a dress.) Also, my current project scares me, so any excuse to procrastinate...
What a lovely gown! I also love that various ribbons can be used to make a difference to the look - for me it brought such resonance to the novels where the characters are buying ribbons and lace and retrimming this or that garment 😊
Regency gowns look so simplistic, but they look really hard to make. All that precise gathering and making things fall the right way. And patterning things that later should be gathered!
I am just starting to make my own Regency set and I have really enjoyed watching you make yours. I am hoping that making mine will be a little easier because of you. Thank you.
This is lovely! I'm super interested to see how you handle bustling the train, though. One of my Regency reenactor friends said that they would draw up their trains by stuffing a bit of it into the back closure slit of the dress. All my Regency dresses I've made do have back closures, so that would work in my case. Only two of my dresses have a train. The first one, I used a wrist strap to handle the train but I think this is more of a modern convention. The second one, I used the concept of drawing it up into the back opening, since all my dresses close with just two ties at the back. I sewed a hook just hidden inside the back closure, and then stitched a loop down the back of the dress so that if I put the loop on the hook, the train would be drawn up to only floor length. That said, I have no idea how one would deal with a train on a dress without a back closure if one isn't using a wrist strap. I'll definitely look forward to more of your Regency videos!
Thank you for this wonderful video. I am planning a 1790s outfit, and already have the fabric, so will rewatch this when I come to make my mock-up. Your finished gown looks amazing, I love it.
Yes!!! I am so that more costumers are creating 1790s outfits. The 1790s has so many beautiful gowns, and yours is no exception!!! Sending love from one fellow British Columbian costumer to another!
It's so beautiful and looks so lovely on you - that train is absolutely spectacular and the fabric is gorgeous! I loved seeing you do the fitting/the way you walked us through it. (Doing the seams inside out is so clever! I definitely need to remember that.) And seeing you mark the back like that is just... I feel that in my soul. The eternal struggle.
That turned out sew super cute! I have that book and the regency dress simplicity pattern from American Dutchess. Now I want to make one. This video appeared in my feed just in time for me to finish with school today. Monday is so hard to get motivated to do school. Especially when the 7 yr old wants to sit there and give you the stink eye because he didn't want to stop what he was doing. Nice surprise for then end of a frustrating school day.
Lovely workmanship and fitting, as usual! Can't wait for the next video! And thanks for the tips on making sleeves that you can move your arms in, I tend to join in Bernadette's existential screaming most times when I do sleeves... I noticed something about this dress right at the end though, that reminded me of a problem I had with in my wedding dress, I had them put a liner into the upper arm sleeves because the fabric over my upper arms was unlined like the rest of the dress was, and the fabric was so sheer I looked like I had pink arms, which looked even weirder because the swoopy sleeve parts that started at the elbow were two layers thick so that looked ivory again. I'm really REALLY glad I had them do it because I got a horrendous bruise on my upper arm at my bachelorette party (poledancing lesson!) a week before the wedding and it would have shown right through! Is pink arms a problem, something you don't care about as much as I did, or is it going to be covered by other accoutrements in the next video? (sorry if I'm jumping ahead!) Thanks!
That dress is gorgeous 😍! The fabric seemed dreamy to work with. How much sewing would you say you do standing up? The no name stitch, very interesting. Ty for the close up.❤🇨🇦
Wait, how do you finish/restart the English Seam when you run out of thread/reach the end of your piece? My brain can't quite wrap around the concept 😅
Your work is wonderful!! Have you read any Georgette Heyer novels? She is amazing on historical (especially Regency). I'm sure you would LOVE them. Greetings from the UK. Xx
Ok, sorry if this is a dum-dum question, but how do you know how wide your cartridge pleats will become? Like how do you know the length you need to cut so you have enough / not too much for the pleats to fit to your bodice for example?
Hi I love your videos!! That dress would be so much fun to wear. Could you tell me how you actually got a dressmaking model in your exact measurements? Did you make it? Thanks Chris
I'm about to copy a dressing gown from the 1995 pride and prejudice,when my fabric arrives. Spent last evening trying to film it on my phone from my dvd player as a reference. Might have to cobble up a back pattern as it all appears to be one piece apart from just below the shoulders. Or above the shoulders Fortunately I know what I mean!
Can you please do a video on your professional background or training. You have amazing technical skills and would love to know if you studied fashion design or are self taught or if it runs in your family.
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This is by far the most perfect sewing video I've seen. I'm going to save it to my Sewing Challenge library and I will recreate it one day when I have the skill.
I love that you showed the paper draping and extending the bodice strap higher, it makes my visual-learner heart happy 😍
“A small stitch in between each gather.’ I watched that twice to get my brain to grasp that.
Same tho 😅
I saw another lady do it and my attention deficit will never piece together that statement it seems.
*Wild ABBY Appeared* "Do you battle or run?" I choose to sew.
You battle fabric with a running stitch
Marika, once again, your mastery of the skill of dress making shines forth. You have a true talent and it is a delight and privilege to watch you create such a wonderful gown. Brava! Brava!
Oh, and nice fielding frolicking. :)
Hand up if you're procrastinating on your own sewing project to watch this instead
A well deserved break! My Christmas sewing is done! Hallelujah :)
I can't believe you made me remember that! 😂
hands up for me. It is so much easier to watch someone else sew :)
I'm procrastinating on everything, but I can't blame Marika.
Yup! And I'm NEVER going to be sewing a Regency - or any other type of - gown, since I mainly sew for myself. (I'm probably not confident enough in my fragile masculinity to pull off wearing a dress.)
Also, my current project scares me, so any excuse to procrastinate...
What a lovely gown! I also love that various ribbons can be used to make a difference to the look - for me it brought such resonance to the novels where the characters are buying ribbons and lace and retrimming this or that garment 😊
It's so PRETTY! Also the red leaves in the foreground of the photo shoot. Who says perfect shots don't exist
Regency gowns look so simplistic, but they look really hard to make. All that precise gathering and making things fall the right way. And patterning things that later should be gathered!
Such a beautiful gown you have created. I love that you did the photoshoot with the amazing red of the Canadian maple leaves. ❤️
I love that you did an autumn look. I would like to sew a 1790's regency gown for winter.
I am just starting to make my own Regency set and I have really enjoyed watching you make yours. I am hoping that making mine will be a little easier because of you. Thank you.
This is such a poetic dress. I love it.
Excuse me while I continue to fangirl over those TINY CARTRIDGE PLEATS! So beautiful! So perfect! And the red ribbon with the red leaves!
Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to part 2. Keep safe and well. ❤️Lynne
This is lovely! I'm super interested to see how you handle bustling the train, though. One of my Regency reenactor friends said that they would draw up their trains by stuffing a bit of it into the back closure slit of the dress. All my Regency dresses I've made do have back closures, so that would work in my case. Only two of my dresses have a train. The first one, I used a wrist strap to handle the train but I think this is more of a modern convention. The second one, I used the concept of drawing it up into the back opening, since all my dresses close with just two ties at the back. I sewed a hook just hidden inside the back closure, and then stitched a loop down the back of the dress so that if I put the loop on the hook, the train would be drawn up to only floor length. That said, I have no idea how one would deal with a train on a dress without a back closure if one isn't using a wrist strap. I'll definitely look forward to more of your Regency videos!
*peaks at the Tamora Pierce books on the bookcase*(She's basically my favorite) Such teeny tiny cartridge pleats!
Thank you for this wonderful video. I am planning a 1790s outfit, and already have the fabric, so will rewatch this when I come to make my mock-up. Your finished gown looks amazing, I love it.
This dress is so lovely and you look fantastic in it. It is so flattering on you and you just look so comfortable and happy.
That train is everything! Very beautiful movement as well :D
Yes!!! I am so that more costumers are creating 1790s outfits. The 1790s has so many beautiful gowns, and yours is no exception!!! Sending love from one fellow British Columbian costumer to another!
The perfect pattern matching at 17.54 😍
My jaw literally dropped when you started the English seam it totally blows my mind that it works like that!!!
Oh man those cartridge pleats are fantastic!
Beautiful dress, love the process and the merry skipping at the end. Just lovely!
So beautiful! Definite ancient Greece vibes. 😍♥️
Loved watching you do your hand stitching.
I giggled in chorus. Oh and when you stitched the outer fabric to the shoulder straps towards the end was MUAH! 💋
You look lovely in this dress. I love the techniques you show in your videos.
Thank you so much for this video. Currently making my own 1790s dress and your detailed video is giving me everything I need to do it with confidence
It's so beautiful and looks so lovely on you - that train is absolutely spectacular and the fabric is gorgeous! I loved seeing you do the fitting/the way you walked us through it. (Doing the seams inside out is so clever! I definitely need to remember that.) And seeing you mark the back like that is just... I feel that in my soul. The eternal struggle.
The dress is gorgeous and you look amazing in it! Especially the last shots with the billowing skirt, just *chefs kiss*
Beautiful work, Marika. And you look gorgeous in it! Thank you for the video.
Absolutely LOVELY! I expect Darcy to come waltzing in through the mist any moment!
I think your sewing is some level I wish I could get to one day. Probably I won’t but it’s good to have a standard to aim for 👍😍
I love the end result, the pictures between the leaves look like a painting :) Also I love to see the sleeve set in process.
That turned out sew super cute! I have that book and the regency dress simplicity pattern from American Dutchess. Now I want to make one. This video appeared in my feed just in time for me to finish with school today. Monday is so hard to get motivated to do school. Especially when the 7 yr old wants to sit there and give you the stink eye because he didn't want to stop what he was doing. Nice surprise for then end of a frustrating school day.
both you and the dress look completely stunning!! what an awesome project you put in so much work :D
Oh what a beautiful dress. You look gorgeous in it! I am looking forward to the next part :)
Lovely workmanship and fitting, as usual! Can't wait for the next video! And thanks for the tips on making sleeves that you can move your arms in, I tend to join in Bernadette's existential screaming most times when I do sleeves...
I noticed something about this dress right at the end though, that reminded me of a problem I had with in my wedding dress, I had them put a liner into the upper arm sleeves because the fabric over my upper arms was unlined like the rest of the dress was, and the fabric was so sheer I looked like I had pink arms, which looked even weirder because the swoopy sleeve parts that started at the elbow were two layers thick so that looked ivory again. I'm really REALLY glad I had them do it because I got a horrendous bruise on my upper arm at my bachelorette party (poledancing lesson!) a week before the wedding and it would have shown right through! Is pink arms a problem, something you don't care about as much as I did, or is it going to be covered by other accoutrements in the next video? (sorry if I'm jumping ahead!)
Thanks!
Truly majestic and beautiful! Wow, great job! It looks simple, but there's so much work going into this...
Thanks for the video!
AHHHHHH! It turned out so well! Lovely!
This is so gorgeous! Even my 4 year adores it & will probably demand I make a kid size one.
That is a gorgeous dress, and perfect for you! I was admiring the necklace when it was on your dress form....absolutely perfect!
This turned out so beautifully! You create amazing pieces.
That dress is gorgeous 😍! The fabric seemed dreamy to work with. How much sewing would you say you do standing up? The no name stitch, very interesting. Ty for the close up.❤🇨🇦
What a lovely dress! Also, those pictures with the matching red leaves are STUNNING
Love it! 😍 Can’t wait to see Part 2!
I love Regency Gowns.
How beautiful 🌹
This is perfect! I have a similiar fabric sifting with a laughing moon regency pattern sitting in my stash!
Learned several new techniques here, will have to go back and watch again, thanks!
Well my cruddy week just got a whole lot sunnier! Thank you for your video!
Beautiful dress, model and scenery!
so cute, I'm really looking forward to the future embellishments!
Ah, the English stitch(hem)❤️ one of my favorites❤️ (I’ve also used it to attach bias tape on a Victorian inspired cape😊)
Enjoy your videos very much! Your gown is stunning!
SO SO SO pretty!
I have been wanting to try this round gown as well and I love to see your process!!
oh, marika! it's stunning!! how beautiful and becoming--you are so pretty, and it looks gorgeous on you!!!!!
I've been wondering about 1790s trains too. Please share what you find with us!
Gorgeous!!
Thank you FlybyStardancer!!!!
I have spent weeeeeks trying to find that fabric 😭😭 I can't get it in the UK!
My favorite snips!! Wish I could find another pair! They are great, but alas no longer in stock.
I love to watch you work. You have magic fingers!
You look so beautiful in that lovely dress!
Stunning work!
Everything about this dress is beautiful!
It's so beautiful and you look amazing!
I usually dont like regency but this looks really pretty on you!
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Yes, the wholesome sewing lady is here!
This is stunning! And such a relaxing video ☺
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice. I just wondered is the skirt tie hidden in the front gathers?
Cartridge pleats were done in Elizabethan era too.
Wait, how do you finish/restart the English Seam when you run out of thread/reach the end of your piece? My brain can't quite wrap around the concept 😅
Back stitch a bit in the inside of the seam, there is a small lump where the edges are tucked, this is where you hide your ends.
Your work is wonderful!!
Have you read any Georgette Heyer novels? She is amazing on historical (especially Regency). I'm sure you would LOVE them. Greetings from the UK. Xx
Lovely! Can't wait to see part 2 :D
I love it! The fabric is perfect. Where ever did you find it? It looks so pretty on you.
Thank you Rebecca! I bought it in the LA fabric district when I was there for Costume College.
When you lengthened the front armhole on the bodice you didnt legthen the front length of the armhole on the sleeve to fit, hence problems.
Beautiful Dress! Well Done!
Ok, sorry if this is a dum-dum question, but how do you know how wide your cartridge pleats will become? Like how do you know the length you need to cut so you have enough / not too much for the pleats to fit to your bodice for example?
You look like a magical creature!!! 🤩🤩
Vicariously sparking joy. If I were your daughter, I'd be asking for a Mommy and me dress.
The dress turned out amazing!! Also, did you ever figure out how to loop it up?
Thank you! And that will be coming in part 2 😁
What is this witchcraft--I was just making a Regency Pinterest board and contemplating making an early 1800s gown when I got this notification...
Capital, capital! Nicely done indeed! 😄❣️
Hi I love your videos!! That dress would be so much fun to wear. Could you tell me how you actually got a dressmaking model in your exact
measurements? Did you make it? Thanks Chris
I'm about to copy a dressing gown from the 1995 pride and prejudice,when my fabric arrives. Spent last evening trying to film it on my phone from my dvd player as a reference. Might have to cobble up a back pattern as it all appears to be one piece apart from just below the shoulders. Or above the shoulders Fortunately I know what I mean!
i love the result!
What a lovely dress!
GLORIOUS TRAIN!!!
The trains were pinned up with jewellery, right? Those brooch with a chain and clamp/peg dealies?
Haha, that good ol' wedgie pose
It's so pretty. Well done👏👏🥰
I wanted to make a regency dress, but I never sew and it looks confusing😩
so beautiful! love the train
Beautiful!
Can you please do a video on your professional background or training. You have amazing technical skills and would love to know if you studied fashion design or are self taught or if it runs in your family.
I was taught by my mom growing up, but i did attend a 2 year university program for costuming.
Can you tell me where you got your sewing dummy from please..though I live in the UK and may not be able to access such a good one
I made her! I started with a tiny hard display mannequin, and padded her up with foam and quilting cotton! 😄
@@EnchantedRoseCostumes Wow thats amazing ..is there any videos on how to do this (are you Rose?)
No videos, but here is a link to my process enchantedrosecostumes.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/reshaping-my-judy/
Soooooooo beautiful!