The Imaginative Seamstress

Yesterday I posted on my facebook page, these pictures of a suit I'd done for one of my customers. She loved the suit and left me a lovely note that I've posted below.     The customer was very pleased with her suit. She wrote this:  "Hi Savannah, I got my swimsuit in on Wednesday, and I love it!!! It fits perfect and I love the style and print!!!! Thank you SO much! It is very well made, cute and modest. You are doing a great work by providing modest swimsuits, in a day & age when most everyone wears bikinis! I will send a picture of me in my new swimsuit soon. Thank you again, so much! I love it!!!!! Sincerely, Shaina   PS. The fabric you tied on my package is now tied to the tail of a toy mouse for my cats. The mouse now has a very long tail and the cats love it because it's so bouncy when I play with them. :-) " What she's talking about when she spoke of the fabric I tied on the package are these stre...

 People have asked me these questions several times, about the maternity scrunch top. "What does it look like when you're not pregnant? Does it look too full and frumpy? How much does it stretch? Will it look okay when I'm not expecting and don't have a large belly?" Well, there are a few variables but I'm hoping these pictures and descriptions will answer some of those questions. And at least give some visual answers to satisfy curiosity! :-) I will say that it may depend on the type of fabric that is used and how much stretch it has in it. I have what I call a 'midsize fullness' for the belly, and its what I commonly use. I re-sized from 'really full' to a little 'less full' when people started asking if they could wear the maternity top whether they were expecting or not... Or at least if it could be worn for pregnancy and postpartum. Some had asked if it could be worn all through pregnancy. From early on, all the way throug...

I've made a number of these but never had the chance to take photos of them. The only photos I'd posted before were sent to me from a sweet customer, Susan. Here's the post where the pictures from Susan are. The first time Susan ordered she was still on the mainland, but shortly after, she moved to Hawaii! I just have to share 2 pictures she sent me :-) I was a little jealous of her home and asked her to send me pictures haha :-)  Just BEAUTIFUL!!! Wish I could go there!! :-) Sorry, I got side tracked! But can you blame me?!?! Surely not :-) Oh, another thing I found was that it only takes a few days for the mail to reach Hawaii.  Now onto pics I took this past Tuesday... This is between a woman's size 18 and 20. If this print is well liked, I'll buy all that is currently in stock! So if you don't mind giving feedback, I'd appreciate it so much!! :-)    Elastic casing at the under-bust. Pinned to show how the...

I came to a point of needing a mental break from orders. And it was really great to take a break! If I don't take time for some creativity I'll go crazy with all these custom orders that require me to pay close attention to details all the time. This was my mental break... I took some time on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning to finally put this idea together! It had been sitting, cut out on my table for at least a week. And this idea has been rolling around in my head for about a year now. Its a criss-cross styled nursing top. I had one cut out last Summer and just never got it all put together. Its still in pieces. Just recently I cut out 2 from this shiny teal fabric I'd gotten in. It was light weight and sparkly! Like I said, I cut out 2. Both would look exactly alike on the outside, but the nursing access would look different on the inside. I had asked a friend if she'd be willing to try them both out and tell me which she liked better. Well, I put one together and d...

 This question has been asked of me constantly, as ladies are trying to measure themselves for a custom fit suit. Mostly we would run into issues when I asked for the torso length measurement. They want to know how to do that, and I usually explain and send them an example photo of someone taking that measurement. They're not my photos so I didn't feel like I should post them on my blog. I needed one of my own, so I took some, and had my sis-in-law help me with one of the pics. (As she so nicely decided to drop by as I was trying to take pictures of myself!!)  I don't like stressing over whether or not the bodice is going to be the wrong length!  Like if I'm not totally sure they measured right, and that scares me to death! I mean, if its wrong, then I make the suit wrong!! I was struggling with this most recently when someone gave me their torso/body length and it seemed short to me. I wondered if she knew where she was supposed to measure to? But I've also wonde...