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My first dress from a vintage pattern: Butterick B4790 Pattern review

As I posted previously , on a recent Fabricland excursion I was thrilled at the discovery of beautiful vintage reissue Butterick patterns. I have made up my first, and inevitably went for the simplest to ease myself in: B4790. I went for the famous 'walk away' dress and am pretty chuffed wit the outcome. Just look at the enormous full circle skirt! I bought 3 meters of 150cm wide cotton and had just about enough with a little to spare. I also bought and used a colossal 9 meters of navy cotton bias binding, and used every scrap :). Total spend: £11.50. Not bad, I am SO excited for the weather to warm up a bit as I will be swooshing this skirt around all summer. As tradition states, the dress was incredibly quick and simple to make. I had to make a size 10(UK) on the waist, but take up the shoulders slightly as the neck was uncomfortably large and loose. I also decided to bias bind the hem as sewing a circle hem that enormous really did not appeal to me. ...

The $100 handmade Oscars dress: Is is glamorous to sew your own wardrobe?

It is glamorous to sew your own clothes? Recently I stumbled across this fabulous image, chronicling the dresses worn by actresses awarded Best Actress at the Oscars for the best part of the last 90 years. It also looks so cute, see: Source I was interested to see how many dresses were made by unknown designers, but then yet more excited to see what happened at the 1958 Oscars; Joanne Woodward made her own dress! I immediately hit google images and was thrilled by the incredible turquoise satin frock I found. Of course there were not many colour photographs of the dress but it was so classically 50s and what I read that she had said about her dress was, as a home sewist myself, ever more satisfying: “I’m almost as proud of that dress as I am of my Oscar.” Source However, no matter how proud Joanne was of her incredible creation not everyone agreed with her less is more approach to Oscars dressing. It would appear that even back in the 50s Oscars dressing...

New look 6567: butterfly jersey dress pattern review

And so it continues, blogging dresses made in the last four years :) This is a dress made with comfort as its motivation, but style has not been totally sacrificed as it has little red butterflies printed all over its plain navy base colour. The new look pattern was chosen because I knew I had bought 1.5 metres of this navy cotton jersey and wanted to run up a comfy, soft dress that can be thrown on for work, weekends, travelling, anything that lends itself to comfort really! However having previously attempted to insert zips into jersey dresses with appalling results I wanted one without a zip or waist band that would slip over the head, and so 6567 was chosen based on its long panels running from bodice to skirt. It was the easiest dress I had made in a long time, took a couple of hours, and I would have probably made another but I did not feel it was particularly flattering and was not inspired to try again. It's not unflattering but I have made more flattering frocks on which...

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