Tessuti Staff and Friends

Giallo Cravatta Viscose Pants

Check out Julie’s fab pants made up in our Italian 100% Viscose Giallo Cravatta (available only at Tessuti Chatswood store) from shorts pattern, New Look 6100. Julie simply lenghtened and tapered the leg to create a new pant pattern. Has…

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Rebecca in Rebecca Taylor – Vogue 1344

Here’s Rebecca again, this time in a Rebecca Taylor dress pattern, Vogue 1344.  The fabric, Gabby’s Choice  ( also seen here and here) 100% silk double georgette has the perfect weight and drape for this lined mock wrap dress with elasticized…

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A New Pattern. Meet Pia.

Meet Pia – our newest Tessuti pattern! This pull-on dress is designed with extended shoulder sleeves and exaggerated pockets. The comfortable, flattering style is shaped without being fitted, and features a wide flared skirt allowing it to be worn loose…

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Take one fabric flaw and work with it!

  Meet lovely Thea who works at Bernina Chatswood. She recently made up our Lily Linen Dress pattern in this lovely (now sold out) denim/slate printed linen. We had reduced the price of this linen as it had a fade line…

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Emilie’s back in Vogue 8805!

Sticking with the Liberty Of London theme after Lisa’s fabulous Darling Ranges Dress, here’s another great dress this time combining Liberty tana lawn with linen. Remember newbie sewer Emilie from this post? I’m thrilled that she’s still on a roll…

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Modiccian Mosaic Drawstring Dress

Last week I posted Lily’s maxi dress . Here’s sister Ruby’s stunning, similar version made up in our Italian digital printed silk satin Modiccian Mosaic.  The colours in this print just scream summer in the most stylish of ways! To make…

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Lily’s $10 Roll Dress!

Here’s a gorgeous dress made up by staffer Lily, who was clever and quick to grab a roll of this panel print silk habutai in our recent $10 roll sale. The roll had some minor flaws, but nothing we can…

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From Beginner to Sewing With Knits

Meet Emilie – keen surfer and new-ish sewer! After attending our beginners class back in July, Emilie’s kept up her interest in sewing ever since and has just attended one of our Sewing With Knits classes with Megan. Emilie successfully…

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