Dear ASDP Board

Announcing the newest MAS Graduate!

07/03/2014 5:33 PM | Anonymous

Congratulations, Barbie McCormick!


Barbie started sewing her freshman year in high school, and found she had inherited a knack for dressmaking from her mother and grandmother. After sewing for herself, her family, and her friends for several years, she started a job doing alterations on an army post, then moved to doing alterations for Macy’s in California.

Barbie moved to Idaho and officially opened her business, aptly named “Sew Good” in January of 1994, and in 1996 she became a member of the Professional Association of Custom Clothiers (now called The Association of Sewing and Design Professionals).

She has attended the yearly ASDP conferences to learn different and the latest techniques in her field and takes classes whenever she can to further her sewing abilities. She studied with Kenneth King of San Francisco/New York to learn European pattern drafting and fitting, with Sandra Ericson to learn Madeleine Vionnet methods, as well as designing techniques, with Claire Shaeffer for couture techniques, Susan Khalje of Baltimore to further enhance her couture clothing construction knowledge.

She even attended Susan’s “Couture Tour” of Paris, where she spent 11 days in Paris learning pattern draping and couture embroidery techniques.

While Barbie does all sorts of sewing, she specializes in formal, bridal, and couture clothing for both men and women. She loves all aspects of the process- from design, to pattern work, to fitting, construction, and the final details. She is truly a Jack-Of-All-Trades in sewing, and is now officially a Master of All!

Barbie also is at the beck and call of Sew Boise to teach any advanced sewing classes that they wish to offer, including French designer jackets, tailored jackets, pattern drafting, pants fitting/construction, and corsets!

Barbie lives in Nampa, Idaho with her two daughters, Jessica and Alyssa, and their two dogs, Sam and Jack.

Written  by Linda Macke, VP of Certification Programs

Linda Macke, Photo by Chuck Islander


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