Baltimore Revisited

Are you considering enrolling in a Susan Khalje class?

It is certainly an investment, but one I found so worthwhile, I’m doing it one more time!
Having taken a class from Susan in October, I learned the location is unimportant because you’re not going to see it.

Greetings from Baltimore!

What am I making ?
It’s true, originally I planned to make the Mother of the Bride dress I’ve been fretting over.
Now it’s unlikely.
Despite of all your wonderful suggestions, I’ve been unable to pair a pattern with fabric.
When I began to lose sleep over the MOB dress, I took stock and decided to put it on the back burner. I can apply the knowledge I’ll gain from this revered teacher during the week to the MOB dress later - I’ve got five months.

This week I’m sewing Marfy F 2105, a pattern I’ve admired for quite a while.

Aside from participating in Leisa Stanton’s super free pattern Marfy sew-a-long I’m new to the Marfy experience, but I believe I’m going to enjoy it!

First of all, there is nothing better than opening a pattern envelope and finding the pieces are already cut and ready to go :)

Students are expected to arrive to class with a completed muslin.

Referring back to Susan Khalje’s Online Couture Dress Class from Craftsy (taken in 2012 and blogged here), I quickly got to work on my muslin.

Since Marfy patterns come without seam allowances, I traced the around the edges of the pattern pieces, (which are the seamlines) with carbon paper before thread tracing the seamline on
each muslin piece.

Thankfully this dress has only 4 pattern pieces, but the skirt is loaded with stitching lines.

This photo includes 3 or the 4 pattern pieces.

This photo includes 3 of the 4 pattern pieces.

Marfy patterns do not include instructions, however they are well-marked in four languages.

Below is my progress. Everything has matched up nicely. Now the back skirt seam needs to be stitched and the skirt needs to be folded, pleated and stitched until it resembles the illustration. I don’t know what to do first so I’m waiting until class before further attempts ;)

The dress fabric will be decided tomorrow, though I’m leaning on a suggestion made by Susan.

Stay tuned as I share my progress with you this week on a daily basis, hoping you will also become enlightened through the wealth of knowledge Susan Khalje so generously imparts.

I’m quite anxious to transform this

to this.

Until soon :)

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