Dress Making

We will work with you to create the dress of your dreams. Custom styled and fitted to your specifications.

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Sewing Lessons

We will customize lessons to fit your experience and goals-from beginners to experienced seamstresses.

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Alterations

Need something altered to get that perfect fit? We do alterations with great integrity.

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Wedding Dresses

Tracy’s Sewing Shop Wedding Dress Gallery

Check out some of Tracy’s featured wedding dresses items below.

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The 30 Minute Dress

1980s Fashion, Fashion Dress Replicas, Makes of 2016, refashion, Tracy Designs Dresses, Uncategorized

The 30 Minute Dress

By Tracy McElfresh|2019-09-16T06:12:21-04:00September 16th, 2019|Categories: 1980s Fashion, Fashion Dress Replicas, Makes of 2016, refashion, Tracy Designs Dresses, Uncategorized|Tags: 30 minute dress, centerville, dayton, kettering, oakwood, sewing, sewing in kettering, sewing in Oakwood, teaching in kettering, teaching in oakwood, trace's sewing studio, tracy mcelfresh, Tracy's sewing studio dayton, tracy's sewing studio kettering, tracy's sewing studio Oakwood, Tracysews, up cycling|

This is one of the easiest dresses I have ever made on my serger! Don't despair if you do not have a serger you can use your sewing machine with the zig zag stitch and it [...]

Conquering One Yard of Fabric; Part 3 and 4

By Tracy McElfresh|2019-09-09T06:44:51-04:00September 9th, 2019|Categories: Sewing Tips and Tricks, Today's Fashion, Tracy Designs Dresses|Tags: fabric, garment sewing, learn to sew, one yard garments, sewing, sewing blogger, sewing with one yard|

Last summer I challenged myself to figure out what to do with 60" wide one yard pieces of fabric. I have already shared part one the shift dress and part two a caftan top. I saved [...]

Forty-Seven Year Vanity

By Tracy McElfresh|2019-09-02T07:46:34-04:00September 2nd, 2019|Categories: 1970s Style Fashion|Tags: advanced sewing, learning swimwear, sewing swimwear, swimwear, tracy mcelfresh, Tracysews|

My swimsuits are taking up an entire drawer and look like a bunch of tangled snakes. I promised myself I would not make as many this year... Swimwear is so much fun to make and [...]