clown clothes

Here are the "clown clothes" that I am making new patterns for. The patterns my client has are old and not really super helpful in sewing. So I am making new patterns so they can have more outfits made up quickly and accurately. Yesterday I copied the "patterns" they had. Today I am cutting and sewing muslins. Tomorrow we fit the muslins then I make real outfits. 
The previous outfits did not have interfacing or anything.  I am excited to make them better quality garments that will fit their needs and last longer

Prada in the house.

Fortunately, before I opened the seam on this coat to get to the "guts" to make alterations I looked at the tag. Prada!  I am always careful but this will be careful x100.

hard to see but it is a Prada

back pack zipper

My client got this nice backpack but the zipper busted.  Who wants to buy a new backpack for a zipper, but you need it! I managed to get the bottom of the zipper out, re-thread the pulls, get the pulls back on and sew it back together.
Take that zipper companies who try to screw clients!

ad for pack

during zipper surgery

after zipper surgery

Bike case zipper/tear

This is one of those things you don't know how to fix.  My client had a beautiful bike case that had ripped fabric near the zipper.  It was raveling like crazy and he did not know what to do.  It was really expensive and you hate to throw it away. So I looked it and figured out  way to fix it.

You can hardly even tell it was torn.

before

after unzipped

after zipped

New client

I am going to be making clown clothes now.  Charles the Clown needs some new duds.  This will be fun.

Little wedding suit

This is an alteration I did for a little dude's wedding outfit. Shortened sleeves and legs. The hardest part was the fitting. He was not into it.

not perfect but at least it works

This is a purse/backpack thing my client wanted fixed. Unfortunately, the zipper would have to be replaced and it was not worth it for that item. So I fixed the straps and sewed the zipper in a way that it would be an open bag on one side of the bag and at least look ok.