6 days ago ... every time you pay an invoice for pattern services, you should get the electronic file for it. If you're having manual patterns made, request that ...
Posted by Kathleen Fasanella on Apr 19, 2013 at 3:40 pm / Pattern Puzzle / Trackback The site feed has been broken. Let’s hope this entry is delivered… This style amounts to an experiment I’m working on, it’s being cut as I write so I have no idea if it will come out as I envision*. I...
Today I’ll show you samples of a work instruction that is similar to one I made while at a customer’s plant. The customer was frustrated because their stitchers were not sewing boning strips to specification. In this case, the boning is sewn before the top and bottom of the corset is ...
Are sewing machines designed for the left handed? Posted by Kathleen Fasanella on May 6, 2013 at 10:46 am / Sewing / Trackback I had no idea that sewing machines favor left-handed people. Did you? Quite a few people do, I guess I was late to the party. One explanation is that the inve...
But anyway, since clothing production is the first industry to be developed in an untested nation, they’re lacking a lot of know how. It’s like anything -like you in your businesses- you don’t begin to learn what you need to learn until boundaries are pushed and you get a failure. I l...
I’m being taken advantage of, how do I regain control? Posted by Kathleen Fasanella on Mar 28, 2013 at 4:44 pm / Patterns / Trackback A young lady I will call Mary writes: While working at a fabric store, a business owner asked if I could sew prototypes for him. He said he only needed...
Pattern Puzzle: Style #22005 pt.2 Posted by Kathleen Fasanella on Apr 25, 2013 at 5:16 pm / Pattern Puzzle / Trackback At long last -having been interminably delayed- comes the solution to last week’s pattern puzzle . The upper bodice of which you can see at right. As I’d mentioned in...
Posted by Kathleen Fasanella on Mar 21, 2013 at 4:17 pm / Contest and Projects , Patterns / Trackback As I mentioned yesterday, thanks to the generosity of Laurence King Publishing , we’re having a give-away of Drape Drape Volume 3 . Yay! For my review, I constructed style #14 which i...
How to prevent theft by bad contractors Posted by Kathleen Fasanella on Apr 11, 2013 at 4:43 pm / Contractors , Operations / Trackback Following the theme of yesterday’s entry , I’ll post some suggestions on getting your stuff back from a sewing contractor. The first step is to know w...
