"It's the fabric playing tricks on you." Needs to be a footnote in all patternmaking classes.

you mentioned saving the lining to last... i almost always do the lining first, because it's one last chance to find a fit issue before it will be seen. I've also been known to use the mock up as a 'fashion' fabric to the lining, if it needs body to try on. (more then one of my projects has a mockup interlining when i decided i liked the extra body, at least in parts.

Tricksy little button technique. I love it.

The gold blouse you’re wearing in the intro to this video is stunning, too, btw!

Very nice. I love a good vest. When they fit well they can really be a joy to wear. My kids took me on a shopping spree to Mood in LA! It was wonderful! They remembered you and your recent visit. We had a great time talking about you and your channel and how much we all have learned from you. It is such a small world sometimes. 🥰

Bianca, thank you for accompanying me on a Saturday morning tidy up. I have tried to watch this video 4 times already but, at 9 months pregnant, any time I get cosy I fall asleep and your videos are always so calming I couldn't risk sitting down to watch. I'm a complete novice sewist and learn so much... When I can keep my eyes open. Here's hoping baby finds your voice as soothing as I do!

The buttons were the perfect touch ❤❤❤❤

I would love to see a mini series with Bianca and Tim Gunn.

Oh, beautiful! I'm a sucker for copper, it's my favourite metallic, and who doesn't love it with teal?

My favorite part is seeing how you sculpted the neckline, but the whole video is outstanding. Thank you!

The whole thing is impressive, but it's the "oh I'll add one eight of an inch to the other side of the bodice because I smoothed the apex, making that line longer" that got me this time. Anxious me has to check 23214 times and still worries. To see somebody secure in their abilities and skill is just delightful to see 🥰

Lovely!! I love the life back of the buttons being an illusion! I love the look of a million tiny buttons but not the thought of making that many button holes! The vest is so lovely!

Bianca, are an a shapeshifter and I mean this the best way possible. You look you so different according to the hair, makeup, clothes, you style and it’s really cool to see.

I wish I could pull off vests, but watching you whip this pattern out will soften the blow

I'm not a slave to fashion by any means, but the recent revival of the waistcoat has definitely piqued my interest. I've made four so far, and am shortly going to sew a fifth. Mine are simpler in style than yours (I'm no way as competent or confident as you are) but I did draft myself a princess seamed pattern for them which works really well. It was fascinating to see how you went about creating yours, which of course has turned out beautifully 😍 Thanks for being a constant source of inspiration 🙏

I like using silk taffeta (or cotton sateen to be cheap) for linings because they're smooth so they're easy to wear but their slight stiffness makes them easy to work with.

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I totally did not expect the hooks. Gorgeous and Magnificent!

It turned out lovely! I’m particularly partial to vests (though I realized recently I own very few). I genuinely enjoy the way you talk us through your steps and the fun little asides. Thank you for sharing ❤ (also you look stunning in gold!)

Bianca, I really enjoy your videos - just coming here to be in awe of not only your dedication, willingness to sit down and film and edit the process to share it with (the often overly critical and vile internet) but also because your process is so clear and logical to me with the combination of your inner monologue and the visuals. It's really soothing and feels very satisfying - even though of course I've done nothing to contribute to the garment - and usually ends with me feeling like I can conquer the world now. Or sew an outrageously difficult garment with individual alterations to the pattern, which I did at the beginning of the year as one of my first projects. Where I found the nerve to dare? Pretty much: here. So thank you, so much. I've only known your videos for a year but they feel like home to me. Like this would be me in full bloom in an alternative timeline, where creative novel writing was less important to me and I would hyperfocus on sewing instead.

I'm a recent convert to understitching by hand... yes it can take a while, but you can get into much fiddlier bits than with a machine! (Thinking coats/jackets with a 360 degree facing).

beautiful collection piece!

u are so talented how do u not have more subscribers.......🥰

So sparkly!

I love ur videos. U are incredibly easy to listen to, follow & watch. And ur insanely cool.

This is my Happy Place, where I can enjoy the company of like-minded people😊 An excellent visit today! I know from watching you why my vest felt uncomfortable. I needed that shoulder expanded a smidge, and the armhole lowered that same smidge. I always ended up unbuttoning the dang thing, which ruins the whole look! Thank you for opening my eyes! You looked quite wonderful today, and I hope that this finds you well and happy. Happy New Year, Everyone!!

Beautiful. Just stunning

WOW I'm new to your channel and I'm so impressed! Thank you for taking the time to film and voice over your projects, I'm sure it's very time consuming. I love watching the entire process from start to finish!!

It looks beautiful on you.

Beautiful--and you did a wonderful job as always! I love watching your projects, it always gives me ideas and just listening to your beautiful voice relaxes me.

Genius with the buttons! Love this piece. Well done!!

Ms. B thannx for a great year of videos, look forward to 2024!!😃

You are my hero! Thanks for this lovely video!

Gods, I would wear this pattern myself. :D

I pray the New Year finds and keeps you well.

Have a Happy and Prosperous New Year complete with a dream home! 🍾🎉❤️❤️❤️

I love rayon bamboo viscous material... Remember it is machine washable if washed before cut into.... And I'm with others I actually duel process sewing the lining and outer parts at same time for saving on Order of operations because my sewing corner and ironing station are literally on opposite sides of small house due to space restrictions 😕😅

One day I'll find the courage to make my own bodice block. I'm afraid that it simply can not be as easy as you make it seam (ha), so cowardice has me gripped in it's cold, trembling hands.

Such a beautiful waistcoat! The texture of the fabric really complements the sculptured shape of the garment. I love the button details on the front - such an elegant detail.

Taking just a minute to thank you for your entertaining and informative videos. The past couple years have been tough for our family and I've often found refuge in sewing. I've learned so much from watching your videos and they are always enjoyable too. I always enjoy seeing how you draft different looks and your tips are such a help (clip those curves, set in that zipper, bone that placket, draft a facing, all the little details we forget or never even think of...) Keep up the great work! Looking forward to seeing what you create in 2024 and to making some new challenging projects myself. Fun to watch someone else who loves to sculpt in fabrics, and learn along the way.

Bianca...make a card version of your skirt block pattern (handy reminder)

As always, very informative and terrific. Have a great year 2024!

Love it. I need to make one for work.

Lovely. I’ll try this one.

Hi, Thank you for an entertaining half hour of lurex brocade vest. Yours, Ann

I really appreciate how you work on and explain your patterns as you work them. I especially like the arm eye. I've always wondered about how that works.

when I made my list of sewing projects I'd like to accomplish for 2024, I have a notation that just says -waistcoat (many?), so apparently 2024 is my Year of the Waistcoat. I will master the Princess seam this year as well!!

Amazing as always! I was struggling with a plain weave lining today, and there will definitely be a lot of cursing sewed into this coat! But I love the waistcoat and will now forever look for a twill weave lining!

Fantastic! Love it. Don't stop doing what you're doing.

such a beautiful piece!

That brocade fabric is perfect. I love vests! I've been wanting to try the princess seamed version.

Gorgeous!

Beautiful! I love the doublet look of the vest. I saw Nicole Rudolph make a lined garment ackording to historic methods, more or less, and she left a lining construction seam partially open to be able to turn it out instead of an edge seam. Seemed a nice way to do it, your opinion? Would tear away stabilizer work for making lining fabric less of a pain to work with? At least in the main construction? Or spray starch? I was thinking to stabilize the fabric before marking and cutting out the pieces. I have not seen it done before and wonder if more experienced sewists know something I don't 😶‍🌫

I have been looking for a vest tutorial from a bodice block all week! I did find you ones but either they weren't quite what I was looking for or they were too complicated. Your instruction style has improved so much over the years and you've really found you're groove :)

Hehe, every time I see you in one of your finished garments all I can think of is "where can I buy hip spring like that?" (I am built like a brick with boobs and have noticed when I pad things out for silhouette reasons, I'm constantly running my "padding" into things I don't normally bump into). And I love that button trick.... and boning in a placket, I may have to try that idea too. I can't wait to try another vest/waistcoat, I've already made one from my princess bodice block and used that bag lining technique and it worked fabulously, but I need to figure out the peplum part so I can put pockets low enough to pretend to be my hips rather than up on the ribcage, making me look even thicker through the middle. I like doing linings first as a mockup, but I guess you know your pattern so well that you don't need to bother. And I think that interfacing was the right thing for that garment, it really looks sculpted. As much as I hate wearing asymmetrical clothing myself, I'm looking forward to seeing you do a one-sleeved garment. I've been collecting upholstery silk when it goes on sale so I'm thinking of maybe trying some of that for the next time I want to make a lined garment where I don't want cotton catching on things since where I order online it's hard to gauge the drape and feel and slipperiness of something and if I'm wearing a thing all day I want natural fibres... I've got some rayon remnants but who knows if it'll be enough... I found this cute flannel on discount that reminded me of you, it's got snakes and bugs on it! Though the grey background colour is not something I think will look great on you. I'm not sure what I'll do with it but I'm sure it'll be fun!

The part about "putting off cutting the slippery lining" BOY OH BOY I just remembered my first time working with that, on an important (to me) project and due to hyperfocus in all my available free time, I was overworked from work AND myself and then the lining wouldn't hold tailor's chalk markings and boy. I just went ahead and clocked in for a mental breakdown. 💀💀

Beautiful

Can you make a long winter puffer coat in that shiny material you use? I've never seen one before. A shiny taffeta puffer winter coat would be absolutely amazing.

I wonder what your teachers would say about my method, on fabrics that can be moulded with steam, of trimming the allowances of an inside curve fairly close then stretching the raw edge with steam and the point of an iron? It works best on wool flannel or crepe, and the allowance should be a little less than 1cm wide. A little bit of practice will make one an expert at how much to stretch the raw edge, and the allowance sits nice and flat once the piece is turned. It works in reverse, too: an outside curve can be shrunk at the raw edge. There is a limit, of course, but for princess and collar seams it works very well. On really sharp curves, not quite so much, so I clip those (as little as possible). Yes, I know: marks off anyway.

bianca i have lucked into several meters of georgio armani brocade. i want a blazer style coat out of it. it is gold and grey large flower brocade. i am so intimidated by it but at some point i will make it i dont know what lining. i also picked up some grey/silver plain weave as well which goes with the brocade so well.

Video idea: the maintenance you do for your machine(s)

the rayon I have is like a more opaque softer chiffon, and the modal I have is like a euphorically soft cotton. I wonder if they're a blend

could you share how you created and re-create that backdrop of yours? Is it in your apartment? It looks so cool!

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Not to say that i dont love seeing the process of turning the bodice block into the pattern you want, cuz it is very fun to watch, but i feel like you nearly always turn the two darts into a princess seam. Why not just make blocks for a princess seam bodice? Is it best to start with the two darts every time?

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Would this look good on a plus size woman?

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I accidentally sewed over a pin last month and killed my machine 😢

*sad public transit in the US of A noises*