Threads, Summer 2021
This is a great issue with a little bit of something for everyone.
As you can see from the cover, Rachel Siegel’s article on methods of finishing up a v-neck in knits, getting us ready for all those casual summer days. Then, if you are in the mood to try some tie dyeing, of silk no less, Katrina Walker shows you what you need for supplies and what techniques create what kind of color patterns. Yet another summer play look.
If you have more formal events planned, you can consider the skirt inspired by Madeleine Vionnet who did so much with the bias cut. Here Emily Magli worked out the full pattern and directions for this very full skirt with a yoke. Then Judith Neukam explains how you could add spirals of sequins to a dress mimicking the 1960s shift dress shown on the back cover.
In addition to the regular answer columns, pattern reviews, product news, Sharon Wilkinson offers a technical article on the turn of the cloth, that minute measurement which fabric takes up when it folds back onto itself or over other layers of fabric. Shannon Gifford offers an intriguing method of underlining as lining in a jacket. And there is an article on fitting straight skirts which merely confirmed for me all its drawbacks. Long live the flared skirt!
You can find the issue at your local fabric store or newsstand, or online here: https://www.threadsmagazine.com/
