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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2011 0:01:27 GMT -5
I have earned basic sewing through library books. I need to learn a lot more like invisible zippers and how to sew a cape dress. I need to draw out a pattern from a smaller size. I remember when I first learned buttonholes I prayed over each and every one and it helped a lot. I really need clothes and I ask you to join me in prayer that my sewing will be successful, pleasing to my husband and to God.
thank you
grandmadeee
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Post by Brother Ben on Jul 21, 2011 10:27:16 GMT -5
Amen, sister, I appreciate you ladies who earnestly seek to have a modest testimony. May the Lord strengthen and guide your hands as they move for him. I realize sometimes, some are, as they say, a flash in the pan, but it is a blessing to know there are those who get a deep rooted scriptural conviction regarding modesty. I have posted a sermon preached on 2010 on modesty at the link below. A Case For Biblical Modesty |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2011 16:13:06 GMT -5
thank you for that sermon link. I have been dressing modestly and plain for three years now but never learned to make a cape dress. I wear a vest or blouse over my dress but I know the cape dress would work better. Since God's word tells me to dress this way I am relying on His promise that " I can do all things" that He requires me to do. I pray over every seam and new skill. God's word is true and the prayers over my sewing works
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grandmadee
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Post by michelle on Jul 22, 2011 14:51:34 GMT -5
If I remember correct.y, I believe that GVS sells a tutorial for making a cape dress in their catalog. I lent out my current catalog so I can't look, but I'll look in the current sale catalog for you. And I can at least post a number later this weekend.
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Post by michelle on Jul 24, 2011 15:23:26 GMT -5
The current sales catalog does not have the book. Their phone number is 1-800-398-2494 and they are open Monday - Saturday 8am - 5pm central time.
Hope that helps
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Post by Elizabeth on Jul 26, 2011 21:24:33 GMT -5
You can get a home economics 2 book called sewing a cape dress there are two of them. They have really helped me out alot.. Christian light publications sell them but I think you should be able to find them in any plain store. If you can't find it I will be glad to send you the web address.  |
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Post by Sister Penny on Jul 27, 2011 5:41:51 GMT -5
www.modesthandmaidens.com used to sell the Christian Light Publications on making your own Cape Dress and another for the Christian Veil for both Kapp and Hanging Veil...
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Post by michelle on Jul 29, 2011 8:43:19 GMT -5
That is also what GVS sells. I finally got my catalog back If you order from them, Preparing A Cap Dress Pattern in item #162206 and is $4.95. Sewing a Cape Dress is item #160207 and is $4.95. They also offer three beginner level sewing books as well as books on sewing men's clothing. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2011 11:01:21 GMT -5
I ordered the cape dress books and they came today. I also ordered How to Sew a Headship veiling and it has lots of info on how to fit and sew a kapp style but not a veil. I am sure these will be a help but I am still looking for a veil patern. I have hai rloss and not a lot of hair to put in a bun. Can you Sisters please suggest a veil that might fit better. I wore bandanas but they skip back off my head and give me headaches.
We also were praying for a direction to take in our sewing and we have had the blessing of sewing a modest dress for a lady and 2 kapps and several feminine needs articles. Since deciding The Lord was guiding us to use this skill as a ministry I get emails every other day or so asking for help.
Thank you to all who prayed with us on this question!
grandmadeee
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Post by rachel on Aug 5, 2011 23:42:01 GMT -5
I know it's a bit late to add to this thread, but I'll just say how I make cape dresses.
Strange as it may seem, I actually find it very hard to sew with a pattern. Most of what I make is without a pattern. I have a bodice pattern and a sleeve pattern; the bodice pattern is roughly baced on a dress pattern I once had although I've tweaked it and re-drawn it so many times it's probably nothing alike, and the sleeve pattern is from tracing around the sleeve of a nightie I dissected.
I think you can make just about any sort of clothing if you have a good bodice pattern and a good sleeve pattern. Skirts are just a rectangle sown together to make a tube and with a hem, gathered or pleated at the waist.
To make a cape, fold over the sides of the bodice pattern so that it falls straight from the shoulders (or can come in a bit if you want) and don't have the patter for the bits that go at the side, under your arm. Does this make sense? It should look a bit like a rectangle with part of a circle taken out of one corner. Use the pattern as you would a normal bodice pattern (still put the fold-edge, the one with the bit missing for the neck, on the fold).
I usually sew the two bits of cape together at the shoulders so it looks like a rectangle with a circle missing in the middle, and hem the long edges. I then sew the neck of the cape and the neck of the bodice together, make sure it hangs right, and treat the waist of the bodice and the neck as one mit of material as I sew the skirt on.
I hope this makes sense. I just thought it might make it easier for some sisters who keep asking for cape-dress patterns; you can make a cape dress from a normal-dress pattern if you do it this way.
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