I took the skirt (and tie) from the Midnight Summer Dream, a garden party summer wrap dress, and the Coppelia, ballet style raglan sleeve wrap cardi, and morphed these into a Spring appropriate wrap dress.
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Sunday, 19 October 2014
Midnight Summer Coppelia
Just over a month ago, I joined The Frankenpattern Contest on pattern review and set to looking for the most appropriate patterns to mash together. After working through a number of options I settled on a couple of Papercut Patterns which would produce my first wrap dress.
I took the skirt (and tie) from the Midnight Summer Dream, a garden party summer wrap dress, and the Coppelia, ballet style raglan sleeve wrap cardi, and morphed these into a Spring appropriate wrap dress.
I took the skirt (and tie) from the Midnight Summer Dream, a garden party summer wrap dress, and the Coppelia, ballet style raglan sleeve wrap cardi, and morphed these into a Spring appropriate wrap dress.
Saturday, 6 September 2014
The Great WSBN sewing room tour
It's probably really well known around the sewing bloggers that the WSBN are always up to something either in real life or in cyberland - gee I can barely keep up with the FB Group we have! But then one of our lovely members (Gemma at 66stitches.wordpress.com) suggested we should do a sewing room tour to get us out of our winter slump and ready for spring - oh yeah, who wouldn't want to do this!
I think I've said before, that in March my eldest daughter moved to Australia which meant for the first time ever, I could have my own wee sewing room, and return the dining room to it's original purpose. When I say wee, it is really wee compared to others I've seen on the WSBN sewing room tour. Only 3.25m x 2.25m with a window on one long wall and the door on the short wall...
I started planning before my daughter had even left home (sad I know!), well this is what I had finally settled on. I purchased the furniture second hand knowing the dimensions of the room were limiting - then they sat in the shed while I renovated the room. Yep, I decided that if I was going to have a new sewing room then it needed to feel sparkly new. Let me show you a picture of the pre-renovation room ...
I think I've said before, that in March my eldest daughter moved to Australia which meant for the first time ever, I could have my own wee sewing room, and return the dining room to it's original purpose. When I say wee, it is really wee compared to others I've seen on the WSBN sewing room tour. Only 3.25m x 2.25m with a window on one long wall and the door on the short wall...
I started planning before my daughter had even left home (sad I know!), well this is what I had finally settled on. I purchased the furniture second hand knowing the dimensions of the room were limiting - then they sat in the shed while I renovated the room. Yep, I decided that if I was going to have a new sewing room then it needed to feel sparkly new. Let me show you a picture of the pre-renovation room ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Custom Made Bolero
I've made a few dresses lately and felt I was missing the one garment that would compliment them while keeping me warm as we transition through spring into summer. Introducing the little black bolero!
This is a bit of a mis-mash of patterns. First I started with the Sewaholic Renfrew which forms the base of the garment. I reduced the length of the front and back pieces to 15.5" from base of neck to waist. Then I took McCalls 5006 to shape the front, which I had previously used to make THIS tie front cardie. Lastly I used the band technique from the Papercut Patterns Circle Top I made HERE and HERE
This is a bit of a mis-mash of patterns. First I started with the Sewaholic Renfrew which forms the base of the garment. I reduced the length of the front and back pieces to 15.5" from base of neck to waist. Then I took McCalls 5006 to shape the front, which I had previously used to make THIS tie front cardie. Lastly I used the band technique from the Papercut Patterns Circle Top I made HERE and HERE
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