dress patterns ARE available here, though....

Vlisco may not market patterns, but MARFY does.


Like this one:








Another beautiful design, the pattern for which is available.  







I could make either of these dresses for you on a custom basis; the cost would be $300- $450, depending on the fabric you might choose.  Another important variable in the cost is your size and figure type.  Please contact me to talk about specifics.  I would love to make some dresses from Marfy patterns!

no design patterns available.

http://www.vlisco.com/#lookbook_show

Oh, how I wish Vlisco would sell dress patterns.  They sell the awesome fabrics, but no patterns.  I am going to make some of these dresses anyway, though.

like these:
Vlisco Lookbook

A VaVaVoom Suit. I'd say so!

I am so lucky!  I get to sew for fabulous people who love fabulous fabrics!  This rich blue and green peacock jacquard fabric is incredibly lively, yet sophisticated and chic in its drawstring-waist sheath incarnation.  The sleeves come to just above the elbow, the dramatic fold-over collar in navy blue wool brings out the dark blue of the peacock colors.  Knee length, this VaVaVoom dress is going to wow the crowd when my beautiful customer gets up to deliver her talk at a conference later in the spring!

 

...trying to get my camera to show you the colors properly...

The back of the dress, with its inverted box pleat at the hem.  When she walks, the woman of this dress will show a bit of navy blue wool at the back of the hem.  The lower part of this dress, by the way, is narrower at the hem, creating this great "wiggle" dress in peacock plumage!

Over the peacock wiggle dress, she can wear the coordinating navy blue wool duster-length jacket.  It has 3/4 length sleeves and shares the raglan-sleeve styling of its dress.  It is A-line in shape, but is contoured at the waistline.

Turn around slowly....  the back of the jacket dips a bit longer in back, creating a swing-coat sort of effect....

The jacket is trimmed at the neck and front edges with the peacock fabric of its dress!

The one small pocket on the jacket will be handy, but also will enhance the waistline by its size and placement. (btw, A., it can be easily removed if you'd rather your jacket's sleek lines be totally uninterrupted!)

The jacket can be worn with its peacock neckline over the dress collar, if desired.

...small slits at the openings of the 3/4 length sleeves...

VaVaVoom Suits!  Bring 'em on!

I am posting this feature about the Peacock Colors VaVaVoom suit primarily for my customer to be able to see the ensemble before I ship it off to her tomorrow.  I am so glad, also, for everyone else in the world to get to see this great suit she and I collaborated to create.  Please let me know what sort of awesome suit I can start making for you, too!

Let no one claim....

Let no one claim that blue-black cannot SHINE.

Blue-black cotton voile, edged with royal blue silk velvet.

This stunning dress is soon to begin her journey to New York to be worn by my lovely customer who commissioned the dress.

The project began this way:

The image showed me some aspects of my customer's dream dress.  When she sent me the blue-black cotton voile and the royal blue silk velvet, she sent me the image and some written notes to describe what I should do.  We together redesigned the neckline ideas (corresponding by email all through the process) and I created the dress.

 The left side of the dress opens and closes with a hidden placket of snaps.

Outdoor light shows the BLUE all the more.  In some light, the cotton voile appears to be simply black.

The story of one custom dress

I recently created this custom dress.  I wrote its story for my new etsy listing.

Vintage style

Gramma Gracie and her sister (our Aunt Agnes) made this Southwest Dress back in the 1950s.


I am dying to make one or two (or dozens!) of them myself.  Check out the new listing in my etsy shop for all the details.

Could I use yards and yards of white lace for yours?  

BRIDAL GOWN, yes.  

We could trim it with miles of silk satin ribbon....

Ready for some wedding pictures? Don't miss these!

You want to subscribe to my blog, to get an email whenever I post pictures of things I am making.  And I figured out how to make it easy to follow the blog!  Just enter your email address in the space above....

For one thing, more pictures of this chantilly lace dress are coming soon.    

WE DANCED

Princess

 Have I ever been having fun lately, creating a DRESS.

Purple tone-on-tone printed cotton, shaped into a marvelous Princess Dress.....   My first photos show how the dress was shaping up, before I added the sunshine yellow lining.

I finished the dress; its Princess came by my studio to model it and to pick it up for the party.

Sarah Elizabeth.

Yay, bravo, and hooray!

I am so proud to introduce Sarah Elizabeth to everyone.  She celebrates life and beauty over at www.loveinfinitysquared.org, where you can become better acquainted with her and her story of living with cancer.

Never doubt the power of LOVE.

What I haven't shown you yet......

The KathleenTemple, Tailor Studio has been open for one year now, and there are many dozens (maybe hundreds!) of custom garments I haven't shown you yet.

I want to trot out a few of the custom dresses and such to give you a taste of what I have been doing.

This little black dress is a simple tank style dress with a contoured hem.  It is of a luscious soft bamboo interlock knit.  I created the silk sash after I shortened a silk dress-- the customer for whom I shortened the dress allowed me to recycle her excess hem fabric!

I created this terrific hooded wool coat for a customer and liked it so much myself that I ended up making a wool lace vest for myself with the same type of hood on it.

I have made many custom wedding gowns over the past year.  This vintage style gown is stunning in person!  I will share photos of the beautiful bride wearing it once I receive them.

Am I lucky or what?? I get to make very fun costumes for a young woman who wears them to Japanese animation conferences!  This dress transforms my customer into a human version of a certain Anima character.

It has been so long since I shared my own dress creations here on the blog that my own summer dress never got included in a post.  Don't worry, I don't wear it this time of the year. (it's all of 19 degrees farenheit outside right now)

 This stretch satin wedding gown is one of the prettiest gowns I have ever made, in my opinion.  It is so elegantly simple.  It sure sets off the bride's elegant and striking beauty....

I will post many pictures of this beautiful customer before too long....  This photo is just to entice you to subscribe to the blog.  You will NOT want to miss the professional photos soon to be published here on KathleenTemple, Tailor that will show you this black lace (honeymoon!) dress with side pockets, her flame-orange chantilly lace wedding gown, and her awesome wedding.  Jimmy Choo heels....

A whole troop of bubble-skirted bridesmaids' dresses in hot pink taffeta!

I made this dress about a zillion years ago, but I love it so much I couldn't leave it out here....  Of course I matched the stripes perfectly (I LOVE to match stripes).

Enough of the photos I took myself, eh?  The last few photos I will show today were created by the talented photog Chelsea Weaver.

Chelsea herself is modeling here.

Kelsey Landes is modeling my blue stripe number.

Chelsea models again.  lovely.

Do subscribe to KathleenTemple, Tailor, will you?  There will be more photos coming soon.  Thanks!