Navy Sateen and Aqua Silk Coat! // Large Standing Collar Drafting Process

Ooh you’re coming to the UK? Can I come and meet some of your crazy awesome cyberpunk outfits- I mean, you irl? Hehe

Hi, As always. No, thank you! You opened a world for me when I first found you. I didn't understand anything you did and it didn't matter at all. I still don't understand all that you do, but you taught me a lot. You got me to buy an old man of a Husqvarna Automatic, the green one, that is an icon in my part of the world. I have used it a little but alas my health doesn't allow me to do a great deal of sewing. It still sits on my kitchen table, though. You then got onto Patreon, and you absolutely have flourished since then. Thank you for letting me see you spread your wings and transform from a sewist or a seamstress (whichever term you prefer) to a fashion designer and a future home owner and interior design. You've showed us jewelry making and collections of vintage costume jewelry and how to style your garment with your collected pieces. And not to forget my personal favorite the hats. You've even shown us hat making. You got me confident enough to actually buying hat making material and I'm waiting to buy a block. Thank you. You did this. You are still doing this. I will never sew a coat and I don't understand your pattern drafting in this particular video, but that still doesn't matter at all. I'm just here to see you, and to thank you for opening up your world a little for me. Bianca, thank you. Yours, Ann

You are such a skilled seamstress (I'm old so I don't know the genderless appropriate term) and watch with awe everytime. You rock, Bianca and this piece needs to be on full public display.

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OMHL! (OH MY HOLY LORD!)You, my friend, should be in some huge, vibrant, "Bianca Espisito" line of fashionable! You have LITERALLY blown my mind! I've been working on a coat that had become my nemesis! With the square X the chest collared situation! Have tryed several times too get it rite, & now I think I can! I appreciate the longer, more in depth, more difficult drafting videos. Give me hope for the end product! Plz keep on doing what you do! 🤯🥳

My bernina loving hart aces that you can’t get along with your bernina machine 😢 And I love to watch you figuring out how to make a pattern for difficult clothes.

You look so stunningly beautiful!😍🤩

Such a beautiful piece...thank you for sharing... Also Have a very happy and safe holiday season...with much rest, cat cuddles, writing, sorting. and home hunting... best of wishes my friend from the South Western corner of Australia....🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

I love the coat, wish I lived somewhere cold enough to justify making and having one! Thanks for all your hard work Bianca, and I hope you get some rest in the next few weeks.

Thanks for showing us the process for designing this coat! I love it!

I am absolutely in love with this coat, and the colors you chose for it are just stunning!! I do have a question regarding the pattern drafting: when you take out that small bit of fullness from the shoulder dart, does that define/set the neckline? Like if you made the vertex of that little triangle higher, would that result in a higher "neckline"? gosh you're right, this is very hard to explain!

My house was built as a 1922 two bedroom bungalow. Our king canopy bed takes up the entire slightly larger bedroom, and while the step-in closet in that room is larger than those in most houses from the 20s, we use the back bedroom as a closet as well. There is a door between the dining room and the hallway that connects the two rooms and the main floor bath, so it's technically a really excessive "suite." Other clothing storage quirks include heavy duty ceiling mounted hanging bars in the basement laundry and storage areas for air drying and off season storage, which is nice - but also no coat closet near the front door, which I do not recommend.

I have a Featherweight machine from the early 1950s. We fight :( She was a gift from my mother-in-law (she bought her at the Fort Geezer thrift shop) and you are welcome to her! She’s barely been used; pretty much new old stock. All that is missing is the “regular “ foot. There might be a ruffler too, I’d have to check. Let me know when you want her and I’ll send her along. I’ve been looking for a good home for her :)

I love seeing how you work things out. And that topstitching is beautiful!

Usually when you say "if that makes any sense" I'm like Oh Yeah that makes sense....... That written explanation kinda make my brain wiggle inside my cranium though hahaha tooooooo early. Perfect though - you make it all look so easy and I know its not 😁

We live for your nonsense!! Seriously though, just literally shook with excitement to see a new video. Thank you Bianca, you really are the most hardworking talented badass on YouTube!!!