Margaret Adam Sewing School

5 day workshop at McGregor Winter School....INTENSIVE SEWING and PATTERN MAKING.

I found this article in a 1965 Women's Weekly. My mother had obviously owned a copy! My dress was purple and pink and my sister's dress was green and yellow.

Using fabric scraps continued. Putting the zips in: turning them to the right side: 2 pencil cases.

This magazine was published in the month and year I was born. I'm pleased to have had a foot in two quite different worlds.

One of the aims I have in my workroom this year is to produce zero waste of fabrics that we use for projects, samples and clothes. The REAL BEGINNERS and school groups are now using small pieces of fabric, not big enough for much else, to cut 5cm wide strips of various fabrics...
..and then stitching them together to make something! Will show you what they come up with when they have finished.

Barbie Gets Real! After decades of pushing an unreliable ideal of plastic perfection, MATTEL have realeased new versions of Barbie in three new body types: curvy, tall and petite.

A common problem with wrap dresses...they can show a little more than intended.

Some clothes are worth the work needed to have it fit again.

Today in REAL BEGINNERS....Project #1.
Three sisters...7, 9 and 11 years old.

Each year...or two...I make this dress. I cut the citrus dress at the beginning of summer and only finished it last week! I no longer worry about how long a garment takes to make....because....I know I will like it and I will wear it. Same pattern: my style: great fit.

I would like to thank my mother.
I have been with a few of my siblings and extended family over the weekend. We have been packing up our mother's house as she prepares to downsize from the family home to a flash new unit.
My main task was to assist her in downsizing the sewing room. Mother is 87 years and for 60 years has been a designer, patternmaker and dressmaker. In the last few years she has semi-retired and works on clothing alterations only....although she still makes all her own clothes.
Mother is the best clothing fitter I know and also the most clever patternmaker I have worked with. I am so fortunate to have learned these skills so early in life. Patterns during the 1950s and 1960s were so much more about fitting the individual curves of our bodies.
Thank you mother....love from Marg

Here we are at my younger sister's 50th birthday....I hoped you guessed that it was a fancy dress party!

ON MASS.....in the MASTER CLASS...
We make patterns. We make clothes that fit our style and body. We make more of the same.