How to Add the Cowl Neckline // Making a Gradient Dress
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- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2023
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I love watching two dimensions being turned into three. The more of these videos I watch the better I understand how it's done. Some day soon I'll be able to do it for myself.
Thank you! There is something magic about going from paper to clothes 🤩
Wawak sells rolls of 2" interfacing.
Wawak?
I came here to say the same thing. Wawak sells sewing various sewing notions in the US. Fabulous prices.
Love that multiple people already shared about Wawak having the narrow interfacing lol - I've found so many useful sewing and pressing supplies there!
Yes please! I love cowl necks and it's great to see a technique more than once and on different fabrics.
Thank you April! Noted ✨
Have a wonderful time in London! I want to go someday. Let us know what we should do if we go!
Oh wow, I’m glad you’re ok.
Understandable about the space issue, I have that problem where we live now and I’m much more clumsy if stuff is in the way.
Thank you Lauren!
Every time you say “this is a fairly simple alteration to do….” I think, “Yes lovely lady, for YOU but for a 3D dunce like me, it’s not - it’s witchcraft or something like that!” 🤓😂
Thank you for all you share. You have helped me sooooo much. 😊🙏💝
Thank you! Yes that's fair, I've got years of patterning experience to help me out 😅😂
I don't know why, but watching you do the drafting from the same book I reference is 1000x easier to understand. Been waiting for the cowl neckline for what feels like forever, off to the sewing room I go!
Glad I can help in any way 😊❤
They totally sell 1", 1 1/4" roll interfacing. Gertie from Charm uses them in her patterns. Wawak sells 2" non-woven interfacing by the roll 2" x 100 yards for $20. Not a bad cost over all.
Yay! I gotta try this! & Aw sorry about your camera mishap!
The desirable-in-some-instances-floofy-neckline-on-both-sides dress. Here for it! 🎉
I bought the textbook you always reference, and made a dress with this neckline. It's good to see that I do read the instructions correctly and hear it much more simply said. Thanks Bianca❤
What a lovely fabric It changes at every different angle! The cowl neck came out great. And: I have more ideas than I have time 😂 same here!🤪
Thank you Diana! We all need more time 😅
I just love watching you draft and sew your projects!. I think I need to learn more about drafting my own basic blocks. I know it isn't easy but you do make things look so smooth and painless. Oh., sorry! No reference to your unfortunate camera accident meant here. ❤
Thank you Debbie! You can also modify a more basic dress pattern into a working block too if you don't want to do them from scratch ✨ I have a video about that here ruclips.net/video/DUtyPPntBrQ/видео.html
I love how you say "and that's how easy it is to make...." 😸👏
Hi Bianca, I love the colour of your top. It is gorgeous. The cowl neck dress turned out beautifully…as usual.
Thank you Debra!
I love the gradient effect. It's so pretty.
Wonderful! You look lovely in your new creation! Good accessories! I tried making a cowl necked dress in high school using a pattern and absolutely horrid fabric. Not a good experience at all. I learn more from you now than I EVER learned in home ec or watching friends or neighbors. I'm looking forward to learning to sew velvet when you do your projects.
May you find absolute joy on your trip and laugh a lot!🫖📚☕️🦋🐈⬛😎🖖🦋
Thank you!! I'm looking forward to an adventure ❤
That print is so very URL code! In my day,(cuz I'm an antique,) cowls were an advanced pattern move. You always make pattern drafting look SO easy.
Thank you Michelle!
That is a great dress, x
Thank you Christine!
Your camera clumsiness story reminded me of the time I fell down the stairs backward because I'm not even adult enough to properly do stairs and ended up having to have knee surgery. We are our people. 😂🖤
Oh no! Stay safe out there 😅😂
Where do you get your hosiery like you wore in the final look? I'm slowly try to put together a couple of 40's looks and am working on a resource spreadsheet for any era but so I don't forget those gems I've found to purchase from. Beautiful dress! I get you want to do more with your garments. I think I am going to do less quantity but up my quality game for a bit to nail down some necessary skills I need to practice. Enjoy your trip! I'm so excited for you 💙 🥰 👋 👏 👏 👏
Thank you Kera! I found these super shiny back seams on Amazon www.amazon.com/Ultra-thin-Bright-Shimmery-Stockings-Grey-black/dp/B082HTWDJR/
Brooooo the gradient looks smooth as heck! At a glance, wouldn't even know the bodice and skirt are separate pieces!
Thank you Danielle!
Love it! The fabric is perfect for that dress. Good luck on the househunting!
Thank you!
My godmom found me a Singer 99K and we'll be picking it up sometime next week! I've wanted one since you debuted yours and I can't wait to use it to make all the things. Thank you for the 3+ years of inspiration and help you've given me.
You make such pretty things and make the *making* of said pretty things much more doable than it appears to be.
Thank you Brittany! Very exciting to have a "new" 99K in your life!! I hope you have a great time with the machine ✨
@@TheClosetHistorian I got it yesterday and it works. Just needs a good cleaning and I'll be able to make all the things!
Okay just for a little laugh, I had to re read the title, because I read it at first as - how to add a COW
I have tried on dresses that made me feel that I looked like a 🐄 cow.
I was pregnant at the time.
Beautiful! I can see one of the shoulders as a great location for one of your fabulous brooches.
Thank you! Always love a brooch ✨
I love a cowl. That fabric is so you!! Awesome xxxxx
Thank you Alexandra!
I'm from Russia. I really love your channel! The dress turned out wonderful! thank you!
The dress is very lovely and wonderful on you!
Thank you!
Oooh, sorry about the camera accident! That kind of thing happens to me ALL the time. The dress is beautiful; I love watching and listening to your commentary, you are a funny lady! So happy you are going on a vacation; by now you must be in need of one. I know this year will be extremely busy and scary, but you have worked your butt off to get to this point so let the excitement overtake the fear. I do hope you take us along on some of your house-hunting trips; I'm so darn happy for you that I could explode!
Have a wonderful weekend,
xoxo's Sandie😊
Thank you Sandie!! 💜 Still learning how to slow down and budget my time for sure, I'll get it eventually 😅
For the first time ever I get how to do a cowl neck, that had always mystified me beyond. :}
Apparently my assessment of how this is done - based on looking at a ready to wear garment, was - nearly correct. I missed the bias cut aspect. Glad to see my suspicion was close. 🎉
Love the Cowlneck you are wearing the intro!
Thank you Kathy! Metallic stretch jersey from Mood fabrics ✨
Very excited for your upcoming changes. You deserve a vacation and looking for a new home is wonderful.
Thank you! 💜
😻😻😻Love it. The gradient placement is perfect. The blue blouse you’re wearing in the video is beautiful also. So shiny and fluid looking 😎
Thank you Tena!
Hello Bianca, thanks for popping up. Been waiting for this one.
Thank You! This is one look that does wonders for me.
I'm sure my husband thinks I'm so weird as he knows when I'm watching your channel as I keep saying ooooohhhhhh that's so pretty.
That dress is stunning! I love the patterned fabric!
Thank you!
Yes! I’ve been waiting for this one ☝🏾
A lovely effect with the gradient.
I do like the color shift of the fabric.
hey Ms. B!!! you always provide us with great, informative and entertaining videos, it's right that you should have a great vacation!!! please enjoy yourself there and have a good time!!! an artist like yourself should see the world and take in as much as you can!!🌍🌏🌏
Thank you Marcco!! I'm excited to recharge my inspiration ✨
Thank you once again for your expert instruction, I’m definitely giving this one a try, it’s so simple yet so beautiful!
Thank you Jess!
I am sorry / LOVE that you said you were initially disgusted by your first finished product. It gives me hope in a weird way. If you have all this experience and hate the finished product sometimes but eventually figure out what to do to make your finished project suck less / be perfect, I think maybe some day I will be at a point where i Don’t hate the finished project and / or could figure out what to do to improve it. Idk, another great video, thanks!
Gorgeous as always! Goth Boss Lady vibes are to die for. 🖤 I think a really deep, dramatic cowl in the back of a black evening dress would be absolutely amazing, but, as a fellow individual that *always* has to wear a bra, don't know if it would be possible. Maybe with an organza underlayer with boning built into the front?
A deep cowl at the back would be beautiful!
(Unfortunately, I'd need some industrial strength scaffolding at the front also!)
Thank you Rachel! Yeah I never attempt low back things as I can't go bra-less 😂
Thank you. Love your work and your words. A more sincere and down to earth person than most.
Thank you Kerry! ❤
Interfacing can easily be ripped if you clip it every 2" or however wide you want it then rip strips to have on hand. Just a thought...
Interesting, seeing as it is a non-woven and has no grain to follow I would expect it to just go haywire 🧐
Oooooh. I love it! You make it look so easy! Thank you for the tutorial!
Thank you!
Great as always!
Thank you!!
Love this top
Cute. I love the way, you’ve got the colours to match ❤
Thank you!
Very nice! The gradient effect turned out really well.
Thank you Laurel! I couldn't pass up this fabric 🤩
So exciting to see you cutting paper open to get to that draped cowl. Magical as usual. 💖💕
Thank you Dyana!
It looks amazing!!!
Thank you!
❤ very very pretty as always!
Thank you Carol!
Another great video. Thank you!
Thank you Dannie!
Beautiful! I can't wait to try this. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Love it! Thank you for this tutorial.
Thank you Vannah!
Yes, Wawak has your interfacing ❤ And more 😊
great tutorial and love the dress! Thanks, Bianca :)
Thank you Kaz!
Always educational and fun to watch your videos. Thank you hugs
Thank you Donna!
Lovely dress. It looks so nice on you. Have fun in England. Looking forward to seeing video of your trip.
Thank you! I can't wait to share my favorite spots ✨
What a beautiful dress, I love the pattern and the cowl neck. Best wishes Heather
Thank you Heather!
You're very brave!!! Jacquard can be so problematic. You rock.
Thank you! Compared to lurex brocades this one way a dream 🤣
Brilliant, Bianca! I never knew it was so easy. Thank you for making this very accessible and informative tutorial.
Thank you Kaytie!
Another beautiful dress, Bianca!
Thank you Cindy!
Great dress, very flattering.
Thank you Gail!
Wow nice cutting thanks for the tutorial
Thank you Anita!
This dress is beautiful!
Thank you!
Love your vlog as their so unique and stunning.
Thank you Maureen!
I love how this looks, I'm gonna have to try a cowl neck myself
I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone this year and make more casual pieces that work with having young kids but also keep them interesting so I'm not just wearing a sweater and pencil skirt everyday😅
Love the dress, love the tutorial!! This summer I will have time to actually do all I'm learning from your channel (finally!).
Thank you Marica!
Love This Cowl Neckline look. Awesome Job !!! 😻😻😻 Yes, more videos on Cowl Necklines, please? 😻
Thank you Dolores!
Very nice Elegant Design
Thank you!
Sorry to hear about your camera accident😢 sewkeysE has killer fusible interfacings in knit and woven tapes of many sizes. Thanks for another great video and dress! 🎉
Thanks.
"...The Matrix download of garment construction..." 😂😂😂 I feel this way about knitting after the last twenty-five years.
I would really love to download knitting! My brain can't keep track of stitches and I lose count of everything IMMEDIATELY 😩😂
Love your new haircut!
Thank you!
Wow, that dress is stunning! and thank you for the how-to on a Cowl neck ! I am still battling my block mock-ups but I know in the end it will be worth it
Thank you Alexandra!!
This is a beautifull dress.
Thank you Paula!
You should pop over to us here in Ireland when you're in this neck of the woods!
I have been before and would certainly love to stop by again someday! 💚 I especially loved visiting Powerscourt gardens in Wicklow 🤩
@@TheClosetHistorian They are glorious, aren't they? I also would recommend the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, they've some beautiful hot houses and walks, they're also great for picnics!
I buy rolls of 2” wide rolls of interfacing from Wawak. They are super handy!
Oh that fabric is gorgeous! The gradient looks soft and tweedy from a distance, the transition to squares as you get closer is a nice contrast 🖤🤍🖤 I am definitely a sucker for a gradient fabric, so I love seeing how people use them on the body.
London! I've completely managed to miss that you're coming to England! If you're into good French macarons, let me know and I'll point you in the direction of the London shop of one of, if not *the*, best macaron-erie in Paris (perks of having a French husband 😁)
Thank you!! I adore a French macaron and will be heading to a nearby Laudree the moment I'm done dropping my luggage off at my hotel room 😂❤ Where are the secret macarons?
@@TheClosetHistorian it was Laduree that I was going to send you to 😂 you might already know this, but if you ask for a "boîte pâtissière" you pay by the macaron and get a plainer green box, instead of the fancier boxes that work out more expensive per macaron. Husband is hopping to Paris this weekend for his mum's birthday and he should be bringing some home for me 😁
@@CaptainStitchyPants This is indeed a good tip! Though the boxes make good jewelry storage and are quite cute at least. They certainly last longer than the cookies do in my company 😂 Pistachio and rose are my favorites 🤩
@@TheClosetHistorian if they have Ispahan as one of their seasonal specials, you should try it - rose, raspberry and lychee 😍 it's a classic French flavour combo and it's gorgeous.
We got married in England and my mother-in-law held a party in Paris for the French contingent a few months later. She got one of Ladureè's macaron cone cakes for the centrepiece and oh my! It's a very happy memory 😂
Oh yey!!!
I love the colour way, and I can see what you mean with the hem. But still - gorgeous.
Thank you Marie!
Hi, There is something that could work as zippier tape. Look for hem tape. It's usually about 2 cm, or at least the one roll we have left after my husband fixed some drapes, back some years ago are. The drapes are still there and I believe they have been washed once and hung up again. Yours, Ann
Ooh, I hope your face is OK... beginning of pandemic I slipped on ice while shovelling a driveway at work and smashed myself in nearly the exact same place with the handle of my shovel... didn't split a lip but the bruise made me glad we were wearing masks. My boss sent me to the dentist to get x-rayed in case I'd damaged a tooth or something. I am... shall we say, similarly elegant and graceful...
Thanks for showing this, I've been meanint to try a cowl neck on a shirt. Love the idea of the folded over front facing.
Thank you! And ouch! That's a bummer for sure! I didn't bruise much, but it certainly felt like I'd been punched in the mouth by a camera for several days 😅
As always, your project turned out great! Also, they DO make fusible interfacing on a roll, both in white and black!
Thank you Mandy! I must acquire some soon ✨
Love the drape on the blue metallic top(dress?) you’re wearing. Really shows off the cowl beautifully. The jacquard fabric is pretty but I could never use it lol. I have enough trouble keeping right and wrong sides straight as it is, if I used that I’d be foreseeing LOTS of unpicking time in my future.
Thank you Pauline! Yeah this fabric does a number on the eyes 😂
They do sell fusible interfacing in inch-wide or two inch strips as curtain hemming tape. Or at least that's what I'm pretty sure I bought from the Jysk to quickly shorten some curtains.
It was meant to be ironed on, and it definitely looked like interfacing. You can find some and decide for yourself :)
Actually now that I think about it I think it was pure adhesive. . . . . . No interfacing at all. . . . .
I’m so sorry that the camera hit you in the face😢! As someone who has slipped on dry sidewalks…I am in full solidarity.
Also quite like the colour gradient of this cowl necked number. It almost seems sparkly on camera (and I do love sparkle)
Thank you! Better the camera hit my face than something that would break it, but still...😩😂
Omg yea…if it broke that would indeed be more long term pain 🥲😆
I have watched yout videos for a long time, and I love you dearly! For some reason my damn brain cannot wrap my head around the bodice block. I can make things from a pre made pattern, but I have tried to do the block a few times and when I try to add in the measuerents it never looks right!
But I love watching your videos anyway!
Thank you Ashley! Things can get wonky fast drafting the blocks from measurements, I recommend modifying a simple darted dress pattern to serve as a block pattern set! There are a few commercial "fitting shell" or sloper patterns out there too that could be great starting points as well ❤
@@TheClosetHistorian Just to be honest, I am fangirling! I am working on a frankinpattern between Simplicity 8051 Kwik sew k4199 with SPIDER WED FRABIC! I did a mock up and things are looking like they should fit! Thank you for all of your videos I learn so much!
FYI - you can put any garment in the freezer overnight and all bacteria including those that create smells are inactive. I do this with my jeans and jackets all the time.
The dress looks so elegant, it reminds me a bit of Rachel and your version of her iconic dress. It was included in the saboteur video, or do I remember incorrectly? Anyway, the fabric is just perfection❤❤❤
Thank you! Yes I had the striped color blocked gradient dress in this last lookbook as well 🖤
Ioooo oove this LoL i made a purple cashmere version and made it absolutely ridiculous 😊 however i wanted to say i was a dry cleaner for nearly 5 years and rayon is bamboo which is machine washable and in fact gets even softer after washing and steam ironing just wash before cutting it.. 8% shirnkage ... If that helps you to make decisions in future for lining UBUNTU 🌈
The Gypsy Quilter Scrap Tape
2 1/2” interfacing!
Can find at Missouri Quilt Co etc! @Andrea
As I'm thinking: No clapper today. I wonder if Bianca's hands were cold... Narration explains that it, was, in fact, chilly. 😂
Still chilly here yes 😂
Also, did you get a new camera? The quality of this video sped up is so clean!
I noticed that too and don't know what it was up to?!? But thanks universe for the randomly crispier footage? I need a fancier camera, but house first then upgrades 😅
This is purely selfish but I have a bust dart from apex to shoulder (because I'm very short waisted with large bust-to-waist- difference) and was wondering if there was a way to move THAT dart fullness into the cowl. I'd love a video about that but totally understand if that's too niche. Happy to see it here or Patreon!
You can always move dart fullness anywhere around the bust, so you can close any of the darts you've got into a new dart at the center front from the apex. Darts never have to stay where they start, the dart legs just have to radiate from the apex, but to anywhere. So the amount of dart fullness stays consistent, but it can be split into multiple darts, all put into one, whatever you want to do for a new design. I have a couple of visual demos of this in my darts video which can be found here ruclips.net/video/JRO-GWfHyiM/видео.html
Putting some of the dart fullness into a center front dart 90 degrees from the apex for the cowl tips the rest of the bodice out away from the center front line, adding ease to the folds hanging down the center in the finished garment.
I winced in recognition at your camera accident. Sympathies! I am not a woman of lightness and grace by any stretch of the imagination--more like the proverbial bull in a china shop!
Same, I have the 5 (out of originally set of six) dessert plates I broke one of at an antique shop once and then had to buy to prove it 😅