I’m glad you liked it! Hope it was helpful ;) It's such a useful thing to know how to do <3

This demonstration was on a bootcut jean. You could do this on any cut...you just might need to make sure that your bias tape, or whatever you use to add on to lengthen your hem, has enough circumference/width to widen back out as you fold it to the inside. If you keep that add on strip narrow, usually any width variations won't matter, because hopefully you're using something bias that will easily expand or contract a bit as you fold and press it up to the inside. Hope that helped. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for your feedback! I hope the finished product was useful even if the video wasn't easy for you to watch! Let's hope the end justified the means ;) Thanks for watching.

This makes my heart SING!! I'm SO happy this helped you out and that this method made sense to you! Congratulations on a job well done....and a practice in patience as well I'm sure ;) Thank you so much for sharing your success with me, and all who read your comment <3

I’m SO glad! Thanks for letting me know by your comment and remember to subscribe if you haven’t. Good luck moving those darts!!!!

Deborah, you are so welcome! I hope it was helpful to you. ❤️

Ha ha ha ha!!😆

Hi there! Here's a video on making a modesty panel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoOZgWtoobGAoMk I hope this will help you in alterating your daughter's dress <3 Thanks for watching and please be sure to subscribe!!!!

You are so welcome! I hope it will help with your future alterations. Please subscribe if you haven't yet, that way you can be sure to see any future videos that might be of help to you. Thanks for leaving your comment

Yes, please do! I have lots of positive comments about this method, both on this video and another one I did that is similar. Please get back to me with your update. If you follow these steps, I'm confident you will have a great outcome! Thanks for commenting and watching :)

You are so welcome! I'm glad this is helpful to you. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment <3

It's really hard for me to put out there publically what I charge. Different regions have different costs of living, and my region is rather high. For instance, our minimum wage is OVER $16/hour! So with that in mind, obviously I want to pay myself more than minimum wage. This is a skilled trade so let's say that I want to pay myself $45 per hour. And I estimate that the alteration might take me an hour. Then I'd charge $45. This particular dress, I was taking video and spending extra time to stage the shots, etc. so obviously it took me longer than normal. Hope that helps a bit ;) Thanks so much for watching and commenting!

@ it helped a lot , thank you so very much 😁

I'm so glad you found this video! Hopefully it will help in future adjustments that you have to make. Sometimes, taking up the outer part of the shoulder seam (the sleeve side) will help to reduce folds that might eminate from the armhole. I can't envision why one might have been created as you described. As long as it's wearable, then good for you! Oftentimes things that bother us aren't noticeable to other people, and the garment still looks great. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! Be sure to subscribe in case I put out other content that might be useful!!!! <3

@ thank you, will subscribe

I’m so glad you think so! I hope it’s helpful to you… and thanks for watching!!!!

You are so welcome! Thank you for watching!

Thanks Bonnie!! 😆 I’m so glad that some of the seemingly insignificant things to me, are indeed significant to others, and not too tedious ;) I never know where that balance is. Thanks once again for chiming in! I hope you and yours are all well 💕

@SewDarnedFun , you're doing great! Don't leave out anything. There will always be >someone< who needs to know.

Wonderful to hear! I hope yours turn out GREAT! Thanks for leaving a comment! ❤️

Thanks for sharing! I'm SO glad that some of my information is useful to you! Sometimes it's those little 'tips' that can make all the difference. I wish you the greatest of success with altering your garments. (To be honest with you, 15 years ago, I would have said I HATED doing alterations, too. But now, I've made pretty good friends with alterations!) ;) Thanks for your comment :)

Yes this might be a useful alteration for that! Good luck and thanks for watching and leaving a comment ❤️

Great! Thanks for watching and dropping a comment ❤️

AWESOME! I hope you do ;)

Hi there! That's a great question. I'm not sure there's a clear answer when I don't know what sort of collar, and if the shoulder seam needs to be taken up the entire way (from the neck to the shoulder tip), or just slanted down from the neck area. I will assume the entire shoulder seam is taken up. You are right in that is seems you'd need to take out all, or at least part, of the collar. If you can pick it out only from shoulder seam, across the back, and to the other shoulder seam...leaving the center front in place...that might be optimal. You might be able to create a center back seam in the collar that would shrink the collar the amount needed so that it will fit back into the neck area nicely. Does that help at all? Thanks for watching and asking your question :)

@SewDarnedFun thank you very much I will try that!

Thanks you so much. I’m glad it was helpful to you!

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and subscribing 😁

Yes! It can still be level. Thanks for watching and commenting!

My sewing machine, as well as my serger are all Vikings. I use a Designer 1, which is nearly 25 years old. Yes, it's had some help over the years, but I love it. Soon, I will probably replace it, but you can bet it will also be a Viking. When I worked at a storefront alterations shop, we had several brands of machines that we used, but the Viking was the only one that would go through the many layers of densely woven denim at the side seams, when we were hemming. I know they've been bought out by another brand, but I hope they are still made well!

Excellent! Thank you for letting me know your successful outcome, using this video. Bravo to you in tackling your project!! Thanks for leaving a comment :)

LOL! Then you understand my excitement!! I have since found that some of these pins seem to have little burrs on them. I just toss those in the garbage as there are SO MANY left! 😆

Oh thank you for not cutting corners here and following my directions!!!! ;) It makes me happy to hear that the cute petal sleeves turned out so well! As for your question regarding curves, I think the tighter the curves, the more ‘fiddley’ the fabric would be in getting it to fold without puckering. That would be a matter of really working with the bias to try and get those threads to squish together more tightly. The good thing about sewing it with the hem side down is that you can use your feed dogs to your advantage by possibly holding your fabric taut, allowing your feed dogs to sort of pull any extra fullness through a tad more than the outer layer of fabric. Then a good press (and cooling with a towel or something) should help it to not ripple. Hope that makes sense! Thanks for watching, commenting, and hopefully subscribing ;)

Thank you so much for your comment, Kelley! I hope you have subscribed so you don't miss out on my videos. You're right about chiffon....it's great if someone else has prepared it, but when we have to hem it, it's a different story ;) So glad you found me and good luck with your sewing! <3

Yes, these people ARE a treasure!!! They're so fun to work with. I appreciate your comment, so thanks for taking the time. I've heard of the lighter-sealing method. I'm afraid that this ribbon would have just burned up, rather than melted. But now...I've got to go try it out to see if it works on this stuff ;) LOL! If I did a lot of end-finishing for ribbons, I might try it out. But this is one of those once in a while projects. What I didn't show, though I know I took footage of it.....but now I can't find it....was that each of those little ribbon loops that holds the D-rings, I reinfoced with a separate narrow piece of material that is underneath the ribbon, wrapping around the ring, and holding most of the strain that might happen in that area. So the concern for strain on those little loops isn't a concern any longer. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I hope you've subscribed! <3

Big congratulations on your anniversary! We just celebrated our 25th also ;). I’m so glad you found my video. Let me know if you have any questions and I wish you the best of luck transforming your dress! 💕

So glad you found this helpful! Yes there were TONS of extra beads that I saved from this dress!!! Thanks for watching and commenting ❤️

I'm so glad! Thanks for taking the time to comment ☺️

😆😆Silly! They don’t need to! You understand this is just a bias strip, right?! Even designer garments for the RTW industry don’t always match stripes or plaids😉

Hi there! I'm not sure what type of cape you are needing, but do you already have a pattern? Are you doing this without one? In my mind I'm envisioning a short cape, like the downloadable pattern you can get here: www.stylearc.com/shop/sewing-patterns/sussex-cape-dress/?srsltid=AfmBOoqwwysORFQ8kvB1qMK4SB6R_SmAFZf4xwoQS2zYer0JQY59GiNW I've not yet used this pattern company, so I don't know how easy or not their patterns are to use. Or...if you want to try and draft one on your own, and can filter through information that might not be what you need, here's a video of my 'sewing guru' as she shows how she made this same sort of cape (she shows how she uses an already made pattern and changes it, but you'll see the shape of the pattern and maybe can dummy one up for yourself to see if it works. Please make a fake garment first before you try it in chiffon!!!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2rbmp-HnKtja9k As long as you have a pattern to guide you, you most certainly can hem the chiffon as you need. Please practice doing it first though! Good luck!!! <3 <3 <3

@@SewDarnedFun thank you so much for this advice!!! 🥰🥰🥰

I truly hope it helps! ❤️

That's a great question with probably many answers, none of which will be easy and quick if you're doing this all by yourself. There will be a lot of trial and error, I think. Please bear with me as I try to explain my thoughts. And maybe out of this, you can determine what might work for you. First, lots of dresses have that chiffon outer layer. So I'm going to approach this assuming you have a sheer layer. When there is a sheer layer, those types of fabrics usually (not always, but most often in my experience) have a bias stretch. There will be some point on your skirt that goes along a slight curve at the hem, and this is probably along the bias. The bias is unstable and will want to stretch a bit as it hangs. That's why I don't recomment just laying it flat and marking it for hemming. When you lay it flat, the bias retracts, and may make those areas shorter than you intend. So, unless your dress is a cotton, or stable fabric, try to mark it while it's hanging (preferably while you're wearing it). If you feel the fabric is stable, AND if you think the factory hemline is actually straight, not higher in the back and lower in the front etc, then you can figure how much you want it shorter and just measure that much all the way around while it is flat on your table. BUT.....let's assume that's not the case. You need to have some sort of mark, or way to measure your hemline against something that doesn't move, so that you can try and get accurate markings all the way around. Maybe put a piece of tape with a marking of your desired length on a door or wall (if the dress is shorter than floor length) and fold your hemline up (just do the outer layer...you can measure your inner layers against this one later after it's hemmed) and pin it. Try to turn and compare this marking on the tape on the wall with the sides, and again fold the hem up trying to match this mark on the wall and pin it. It will take pinning, unpinning, and pinning again. It will be a process, so don't be mistaken there. If the dress has way too much fabric to fold up and pin, then cut off a certain amount of inches that you know are extra, making the extra you're working with much more managable. Now, if the hem is to be floor length, then I would put the dress on, and visually mark where you want the length to be and pin it up....doing this all the way around. I'm afraid I have no easy method off the top of my head, so these are just my first thoughts on how you might accomplish this. If you come up with any other ideas, or links, please put them here so others might be helped, too! Good luck and I hope some of this made sense, or might have helped you with a new idea that will work for you. Thanks for watching and commenting! <3

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting!

You’re very welcome. I hope it’s helpful to you.

You’re welcome! So glad it was helpful to you!!!

Yes! I think the hanging is SO important! I’m glad you found this video to be helpful :) Thanks for watching ❤️

You're so welcome! Thank you for taking the time to drop a comment! It makes me smile when people let me know my content is useful. :) <3

So great to hear! Good luck converting your skirts. I hope it goes very well for you. Thank you for taking the time to comment!

There isn't a reason I would do that when I can get to it by turning the jeans inside out. The more time I spend plucking out seams, the more I have to charge my client. I try not to steer things toward costing more, if I don't have to. But, if you find it difficult to work on the inner seam, then you certainly can pluck out the outer seam first ;) Thank you for bringing up this option.

@@SewDarnedFun well... I do it only for myself and I don't use any pins. So, it's pretty simple and fast with always good results. There is another way to do it, but I haven't tried it, yet. Maybe sometime later if needed. If you are interested, try to search KZbin "Few people know this secret. How to narrow jeans and preserve the original seam"

I watched the video you referenced, and first of all it has nothing to do with opening the outer seam in order to work on the inseam, as per your first comment!!! ;) This is an interesting way of taking in the inseam, but the outseam also must be taken in, so the pants will be balanced and angle correctly on the leg. This is a shortcut 'hack', which I usually don't do for my clients in my sewing business. I focus on quality alterations, and I can see how the wide, flappy seam that this shortcut method creates, might be irritating and bulky. Also, there is a little pucker where the stitching lets out...you can see her ironing over and over it again to try and get it to lie flat. The coloration of the jeans she is using helps to hide this.Thank you for referencing this video, but it's not a method that I can see myself doing. HOWEVER, I can imagine that some home sewers might want to try this method for a quick fix ;) Once again, thank you for watching and for your comment, as well as your video...for an alternative method, if someone wants a short cut.

@@SewDarnedFun when I do it for myself I measure every millimeter, so my job is absolutely perfect. I didn't try that what showed in the referenced video because I don't have any jeans that are too wide, but I am planning to try it some day. What is good about that method that you don't have to recreate that double seam. That's the main thing. Thank you and good luck.

That's a great question! I look at the clock and write down the times that I start and end. If I get interrupted, I guestimate the interruption time and subtract it from that particular time block. It can be truly difficult to keep track of time when there are many interruptions. I didn't keep strict records of this dress, that's why I have the estimated time range spent. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching :)

Great use for the faux fly! Have fun and thanks for watching and commenting!!!