Marcel Sew Along | Sew the Bodice

Now we are ready to sew up the bodice of the Marcel. This will be the same for any view. There is one additional step at the end if you are sewing the Mini Marcel (kids’ version). You can watch the video or read through below. SEW BODICE AND BODICE FACING SIDE SEAMS With right

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Marcel Sew Along | Stay Stitching & Sew Straps

Now we are ready to start sewing! Here’s a link to the video sew along for the tier 1 stay stitching and sewing the straps. Feel free to watch the video for this step or follow along below. Before we start sewing the straps, we want to make sure we stay stitch the top edge

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Marcel Sew Along | Getting Started

We are excited to bring you a sew along for our latest release, the Marcel Dress and Tank Top. Throughout this sew along we will be sewing the women’s View B (Mini Dress) in a mustard floral and the Mini Marcel View C (Tank Top) in a rainbow fabric. There will be photos for each

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Black Lives Matter

Chalk and Notch and everyone on our team is in full support of the global movement, Black Lives Matter. We have posted a statement on our social media channels, Instagram and in our Facebook C+N patterns support group, but we also want to make a pledge here on our blog to our sewing community that

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Page Neckband Tutorial

I’m excited to share a tutorial on how to draft a crew style neckband for your Page Hoodie. This tutorial will reference the Page Hoodie, but the same tutorial can be applied to other patterns and to drafting a neckband in general. For those of you who would rather just print the neckbands (I would

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2020 Survey Results

I asked in Instagram Stories the other day if there would be any interest in some of the general survey results from the annual survey we had in our year in review post. The overwhelming response was YES, so today I have that for you. The 1,031 people who took the survey follow Chalk and

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2019 Review, 2020 Plans, a Survey & Giveaway!

I can’t believe we ended another year, not to mention a decade! It’s hard not to reflect and think about where the time has gone. The first half of this decade was all about raising babies and living in San Francisco. I loved that part of my life, but it was also hard. Like many

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