Sewing A 1950s House Wife Dress | “Easy” Vintage Pattern Sew-A-Long (McCall’s 8401) 

Hi Cindy, You are such a wonderful seamstress. How did you learn to sew? Did you learn from a family member or did you learn in school or are you self taught? I lov to watch you sew the beautiful vintage dresses with such precision and grace. Thank you for making these lovely sewing videos. I love your little pup with the pink bow. I've always wanted a Yorkie, my husband bought me a Frenchie, and I love him dearly, so I can not complain. I think the rickrack and those sweet pearly pink flower buttons are wonderful touches. Such a feminine beautiful pink dress. Looks like the kind of dress that should be worn to a tea party. Love it!!

I have another tip. Find poster tubes and take your patterns and lay them flat on a light weight poster board and roll them like a map. No creases! Prolong the life of your patterns. You do great work. And the more I watch, the better you get. Thank you. Have fun!!

This is absolutely gorgeous and so inspiring! Knowing that it’s a “Mommy and Me” pattern reminded me of all the wonderful things my great-grandmothers, great-aunts, grandmothers, and mother made for me over the years 🩷

Watching from Northern California. I Love that you started an faceless ASMR sewing vintage channel 🎉how creative 🙌✨✨✨

Another absolutely gorgeous make! You’re proof positive that it is possible to make these projects look just like the pattern envelope. Can’t wait to see more!

Yay! Welcome to the McCall’s 8401 sew-a-long. I’d love to know how yours turns out? Trying this pattern got a bit chaotic for me, haha. I’m so happy we get to figure this out together! Enjoy and have a lovely weekend! Xoxo, Cindy Leaux

I love this dress, it's beautiful. Congrats! Watching your video is so relaxing. Birds singing is music to my ears. I'm from Santiago de Chile! ❤

So pretty! Just a tip-since you asked how we keep the rickrack down…anything you want in place, you can baste either with loooong machine stitches or long-ish hand basting stitches you later take out. Love the video! 🌸

Not enough words to thank you, Cindy Leaux! I'm a few months into my sewing journey and picked up this pattern in a flash of ambition - needless to say, I was lost by the time I got to the midriff. I'd shortened my bodice by two inches (v. short torso club) and was panicked about everything fitting together and new techniques yet to come (ric rac? piping??) and put this on hold for a week before having the presence of mind to RU-vid search. Liked and subscribed and can't wait to join you again.

I love your channel. Thank you for providing a peaceful feeling while learning a lot! 😊 Fabric glue can help with those wayward pipings.

Your videos are so peaceful and wonderful to watch while you create masterpieces! Watching from Kentucky. One of my favorite parts on your videos are your “happy claps”. Makes me smile every single time! It would be wonderful to see you or someone wearing the finished dress.

Really enjoy this style of video. All quiet on the set except for the sewing bits and snips. Well done!

You did a very good job with the ric rack paddy whack!

I love this pattern. This is from the Era of single size patterns instead of the multi sized mess we have today. Much less confusing.

Congrats on the viral. That is fantastic. Well done. Yay for the doodle winning. Sometimes you just have to. And agreed that Robin Williams is a huge loss. The dress is lovely. The alterations came out great - well done, you. As far as I can see from the vintage patterns I've worked with so far - you do all the seams and then you do the bias tape to enclose the edges. But it may be one of those things where it's up to you for the 'order of operations'. Clips or hand-basting are my only guesses for holding the rick-rack into place. Presently I'm working on hand sewing a cobalt blue wool crepe into a 1950's kimono sleeve blouse for the summer. I'm experimenting with using the fashion fabric as an interlining on the cuffs & collar; then pad-stitched into place. So far, the results are making me happy. I'm attempting to use every couture/Victorian and tailoring technique I can find... - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi

I love your style! That backdrop

Absolutely gorgeous😍 Also Hook was literally my childhood! I watched that movie all the time. Robin Williams was so good 💖

I enjoy watching such entertaining sewing❤

It's a lovely dress 🩷🩷🩷. Your are a really talented sewist/seamstress. I wish I was so that good when I started 😅

Congrats on going viral on Tik Tok! I don’t go there anymore, so I’m so I missed it. I’m watching from Central Texas, and have been enjoying every dress you’ve made! You say you’re a beginner, but I’m just gonna have to take your word for it, because every garment you’ve done has come out perfectly. My favorite is your red New Year’s dress!

You’ve done an excellent job getting the Rick rack exactly half way inside those seams. Bravo. Such an adorable dress.

Watching from the Inland Northwest, USA. Your videos are relaxing! Thank you!

I love watching you❤ txs so much🎉

I love Vintage dress making. Excellent video! I am watching from Oro Medonte, Ontario, Canada. I am now a subscriber.

I am so glad that I did not attempt this before watching your video. Also, the cherry blossom (sakura) buttons were a wonderful swap 🌸 Time to whip out my cherry blossom fabric for this!! Ahhh❤

I WISH I HAD YOUR TALENT THIS DRESS IS REALLY PRETTY AND WELL DONE

The dress is so cute! And the puppy too 🥰

Video is beautiful, it would be great if you can add the voice description of what you are doing ❤

That’s…absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful color, shape, AHHHH!

WHAT A GREAT DRESS I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, IT but I LOVE the little Dog even more sooooooooooo cute GREAT talent to be able to sew like that❤❤❤❤

It was cute. I liked it

oh this turned out so gorgeous!! i get super frustrated when sewing because i'm so excited for the end product that i sometimes skip steps and feel like i'm running out of time. i didn't make this one along with you, but i think i will try a sew along in the future! having someone to go along with slowly and do all of the steps really calms me down, i feel less like i'm taking too long and more like i'm doing it right the first time. this was super soothing and relaxing just to watch, and the dress turned out picture perfect!

The sweet housewife dress 👗 I would wear outside of doors 🚪 everywhere 😊. Especially in my favorite color😊.

Hello from Suffolk in England. I’ve never used a pattern just cut and sew, my mother taught me how when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I just love watching you being so neat!

I like it! The dress is gorgeous.

Hi there from ontario...this was relaxing...my first video of yours.. You sew beautifully..that is not an easy pattern...you did every step..I glance at patterns but have not looked that close at instructions...I think ever.. have subscribed and I'm going to watch more of your posts

Very pretty! Just finished my own project a vouge pattern of a pull-on dress in a bubble gum pink. I made it out of lawn, a nice lightweight fabric. I wanted it for summer (it's coming to winter where I am), Oh well ready for next summer.

너무 예뻐요!! 저도 능력만 되면 만들어보고 싶어요 ~~ 그리고 솜씨가 대단하네요 !! 멋져요❤❤❤

I don't have this pattern. But this week, having time on my hands and being in the mood for reorganising, I sat down and ironed my vintage tissue paper patterns. 😊 I only have a few - being Central European, most of my vintage patterns come in the form of sewing magazine pattern sheets. I love your buttons! I have mild koumpounophobia so regular buttons with holes range from "meh" to "nope" for me; but shank buttons are fine, and I have for a while now occasionally pondered that these pearl ones would be the perfect button solution for me in certain circumstances. 💛

The dress is just beautiful, I am watching from Toronto 🍁

It’s beautiful

congrats on going viral! i love how relaxing your videos are :)

SO adorable!

Thank you for being sew-inspiring 😊🎉

Lovely work.❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

Do beautiful and nice ❤️ 👏 😍 👌 Thank you ❤️ Subscribed! New friend ❤️

I absolutely love it!!!!

💖💖💖🌸🌸🌸🐶🐶🐶💖💖💖 I love happy hand dancing Beautiful dress!!!

I recently bought this pattern! Am watching from Sydney, Australia

hii your dresses are really pretty

SUPERR....🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

I gonna to be a happy copycat! This dress is gorgeous 🎉❤.

This was far too cute, and I wish I had your bravery! I'm too scared to sew older pieces because I'm definitely not a seamstress... Anyway! I use Elmer's glue to tack down rickrack (among other things). You only need a small dot of glue in precise places, and I set it with my iron. Some people use glue sticks! I don't know if you have one yet, but using a rotary cutter and large quilting ruler makes any strip cutting as swift as a sad kiss! I wish I'd used a cuter aphorism. Finally, bias tape is used to make the finished piece nicer-looking while protecting the seams and keeping the fabric from fraying.

Watching from Norway :) :)

I normally don't say this about pink clothing. The dress looks so elegant.

Amo los vestidos de antes!!! Una belleza

I am watching from Leeds, England.

Wow😍😍

lol i thought it was facial time with the steam woops :D where do you find rick rack?

You're dresses always come out so well in the end💖💖!! But i have a question, do you wear a petticoat with them? I have some 50s patterns but I'm not sure if they'll poof on their own or if I need a petticoat??? Thanks!

I used to blame myself when the notches didn't line up. I now realize some patterns are just not printed well. Thanks for the very pink video...

Watching from Tasmania

Nice, I wanted to try that one, too! :-)

I want to buy a book like this to teach sewing and detailing

Wow

I am watching from Garibaldi, Brazil

Kentucky USA 🇺🇸

Maravilhoso ❤

انا من العراق استمتعت بهذا 💔😞 هذا رائع❤❤

Perfeito 👏👏🇧🇷

Hola Cindy, vivo em Angola 🇦🇴 Amo a dança depois de cortar o tecido 😊 7:44

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En qué grado de calor planchas los moldes? Que usas de pesas pequeñas?

Благодарю!

Have you missed a thread guide on your machine? Just above the needle there may be another guide? I think we have the same machine.

Amei sou do Brasil eu quero

とても面白いです！貴方はどこの国の方ですか？ 日本では、ソーイングブックやキットには、もっと分厚い紙の型紙が付いていて、それを薄い紙に写し取ってから使うことが多いです。貴方のところでは、商品の紙をそのまま切るのですか？

I do hope you wear this dress❤

Прелестно! Прелестно!

I’m a few months late to the party but I’m from Southern California and we just had an earthquake about an hr ago…and about 20 aftershocks…

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

ах как красиво!

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من اين اشتري هذه المجله

👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹

ЗДРАВСТВУЙТЕ ОТ РУССКИХ ЛЮДЕЙ! СЛАВА БОГУ ЗА ВАШ ТАЛАНТ. МИР ДОМУ ВАШЕМУ. ТВОРЧЕСКИХ УСПЕХОВ. БЛАГОСЛОВЕНИЯ НА ВАШИ ДОБРЫЕ ДЕЛА. С ДЕТСТВА ЛЮБЛЮ СТИЛЬ НЬЮ-ЛУК ИЗ 45-60 ГОДОВ

When you pull threads out of your sewing projects, pull the bobbin threads. It's easier 😊.

没有字幕😭

Hi! I enjoy your videos! I just wish you would speak!

I can't understand the written directions at all.

It is a little hard ti watch yiur video when we meed to focus on what you are typing at the button, autio would work so much better so i can focus on yiur sewing! I love your video, but i have to keep stopping it to read the subtitles

I am not a fan of your videos. I am an Air Conditioner!!!!!!

Невероятная красота!

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