Blog — Wilder Gown

Are you attending a wedding soon and want to stand out with a unique and handmade garment? Why not consider sewing your own wedding guest outfit? By sewing your outfit, you can customize it to suit your personal style and ensure a perfect fit. In this blog post, we have collated some of our Friday Pattern Company sewing patterns that would work perfectly for a wedding! Continue reading to find out more.

Hello, I’m Ele and I’m on the Friday blog to talk to you about embroidery and give you some ideas for adding embroidery for your me-made garments. I talk through how to embroider by hand, on a machine and have free flower templates for you to use! February was National Embroidery Month and I challenged myself to embroider every day - you can see how I got on, on instagram.

Hello! My name is Cassie -- I’m a sustainable fashion copywriter and sewing content creator from Toronto, Canada. Living in a country with 4 proper seasons, (3 of which are on the chilly to freezing end of the scale), I try to make versatile garments that can be worn most of the year and contribute to a fun, but cohesive me-made wardrobe! You can find me on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube where I share more about this handmade journey. In this blog post I wanted to share a Wilder Gown hack, perfect for the colder seasons. Continue reading to find out more.

This Wilder gown hack has been on my mind since last summer but finding the right eyelet fabric in the red/orange shade I wanted was nearly impossible until I realized a few months ago that I could just dye the fabric myself. Like countless sewists I too fell in love with the Wilder gown pattern. Don’t let the simple style lines of this pattern fool you. The hacking possibilities are endless and depending on your fabric choice you can take this dress from easy breezy casual to fancy and chic. Continue reading to find out how I hacked the Wilder Gown to create a Eyelet dress. 

Hi, I'm Eleanor or Ele - a sewist, knitter and embroiderer over on @SewnbyEle on Instagram. In this blog post, I’m going to show you some inspiration and ways to make your Wilder Top a little bit different as well as a project step-by-step showing how to insert lovely lace ribbon into the top. Keep reading to find out more.

Hey guys! Here in the UK the summer has just begun and the sun has been shining lots the past few weeks. With the warmer weather it's a great time to style summer dresses and I personally love bright colours and prints. In this blog post I am sharing 3 of my favourite Wilder Gowns and how I am styling them in the summer months. 

I recently made a Wilder Gown top as a sweatshirt and I basically haven't shut up about it since. I love when I can replace a classic wardrobe staple with something that has more personality! This hack was easy to sew and took me less than an afternoon to complete. Iseefabric.com sent me the softest organic cotton french terry fabric in the world. I knew I wanted something out of this amazing ochre color.   The Wilder pattern is designed for woven fabrics but for the top was easy to make out of a knit. The only difference from how the top is constructed in the pattern is that I used a stretch stitch (it's a narrow zig zag that...

The Wilder Gown pattern is finally here! This easy to sew gown is the perfect loose, flowy, summer style. Its perfect for those hot days when you don’t want anything to touch you but you are required to wear clothes. The Wilder is modular by design and can be made as a top or dress, long sleeved or short sleeved, one tiered or two tiered! It is so easy to adapt this pattern to suit your fashion needs, and I can almost guarantee you’ll want to make more than one! In this post we will be talking fabric and RTW inspiration! Shop the pattern here. Let’s talk fabric! Because it is currently summer I’ve got light, airy, and drapey fabrics...