I took 8 short, straight skirts to Gwen on 4/3/23 to be taken in and gave her over a month to complete the work. I explained that I was going out of town for work, and I needed to pick them up right before I left. She assured me they would be completed. I picked them up on 5/12/23. She had made one pass with the sewing machine on the sides of the skirts in black thread - regardless of the color of the skirts. She did not cut off the excess and bulging material and serge, did not re-stitch the waist band, and the length of seam on each side of the skirts was not the same. For example, where the left side seam was 10 inches long, the right side seam was only 6 inches long.
I also took 5 pairs of pants to be shortened. She only had to fold them under one hem length and sew them, I didn't even ask her to cut them off. She used a very noticeable single running stitch rather than a blind hem stitch.
She charged me $269.00 for the most amateurish sewing I have ever seen. This was absolutely talentless, unprofessional, sloppy work . Anyone who would provide this type of low-level work should not be in business, and I would certainly be afraid to trust her with a wedding dress. read more