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I’ve talked about Butterick 4790 (the “walk away” dress) before. I don’t recall how long ago I bought the pattern, but I finally started the dress last September and stopped when I managed to hork up my sewing machine for a couple of weeks, and then didn’t get back to the dress mostly because of [...]
Mon, June 22 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, fashion, friends, sewing » 7 Comments
Bonus dress edition!
When my friend Alison started this whole “Let’s plan a weekend to get together and sew from vintage patterns” idea, I already had a stash of patterns from which to choose, and some vintage curtains that I’d deconstructed into panels of fabric. I was ready to go!
I was ready to go, that is, [...]
Thu, June 18 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, fashion, friends, nostalgia, sewing » 20 Comments
I left you all on Saturday morning, when I had created my graded pattern but had yet to cut out my fabric. Things went fairly smoothly, aside from accidentally leaving the zipper opening on the right, rather than left, side of the dress, ripping out the seam on the left side, and then restitching the [...]
Wed, June 17 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, collections, fashion, friends, nostalgia, sewing » 11 Comments
When last we met, I had located fabrics from which to make a muslin (from the Hope Chest line of vintage repro fabrics by Spring) AND a finished dress (a set of Asian dragon-themed sheets) from my chosen vintage pattern (7245 from an unknown maker, if you haven’t been following along). All I needed to [...]
Sat, June 13 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, fashion, friends, nostalgia, sewing » 2 Comments
Part Two: In which fabric has been sourced. In part, out of my linen closet, where I found a set of sheets and somewhat matching curtains left over from my old apartment.
The sheets, a solid, very pale lilac in the neighborhood of Pantone 14-3911 for those of you with Shopping Guides,* are cheap (also inexpensive, [...]
Wed, June 3 2009 » Vintage & Retro Style, family, fashion, sewing, shopping » 2 Comments
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