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verity83Mr Baldwin is helping some relative of Demetrius figure out an ancient iMac, and I'm here doing laundry, practising La Clarinet, and about to get back to working on my dress. Images and details are .
The pattern again:
This is the dress. I didn't do full length because it's kind of shapeless looking just hanging there. It has double side darts on the side, which is interesting. I don't think I've ever done that before, although I've done bodices that have one each of a shoulder, side, and waist dart. The skirt is fairly long and flares out a little bit at the bottom, more than any of the other patterns of this era that I have tried.
I did my own bias tape. One of the first things I learned how to do when I started making clothes was how to make bias, because the dress I was doing had a stand-up collar, so the lady helping me showed me how to do it. It's a really good skill to have and I'm glad to know how to do it. You can always just buy ready-made, but it adds such a professional touch to do it out of the dress fabric.
The collar was to be attached to the capelet, which was all to be directly sewn onto the neckline, but I decided that for ease of ironing, since this is cotton, I would just make the capelet as a separate piece altogether.
This is the armhole. There is also an option for no capelet and short sleeves, which I'd like to try as well sometime.
Close-up of the fabric - I just love the print.
And these are the buttons. There are three on each side and they are what will hold the capelet on.
The pattern again:
This is the dress. I didn't do full length because it's kind of shapeless looking just hanging there. It has double side darts on the side, which is interesting. I don't think I've ever done that before, although I've done bodices that have one each of a shoulder, side, and waist dart. The skirt is fairly long and flares out a little bit at the bottom, more than any of the other patterns of this era that I have tried.
I did my own bias tape. One of the first things I learned how to do when I started making clothes was how to make bias, because the dress I was doing had a stand-up collar, so the lady helping me showed me how to do it. It's a really good skill to have and I'm glad to know how to do it. You can always just buy ready-made, but it adds such a professional touch to do it out of the dress fabric.
The collar was to be attached to the capelet, which was all to be directly sewn onto the neckline, but I decided that for ease of ironing, since this is cotton, I would just make the capelet as a separate piece altogether.
This is the armhole. There is also an option for no capelet and short sleeves, which I'd like to try as well sometime.
Close-up of the fabric - I just love the print.
And these are the buttons. There are three on each side and they are what will hold the capelet on.
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Date: 2008-06-01 10:30 pm (UTC)It's funny because I don't think I've seen any antique stores here in Portland. There are a lot of junk shops/secondhand clothing and furniture type of places. They must be in another part of town or something.
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Date: 2008-06-03 03:51 am (UTC)no subject
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