Archive for the ‘Death Star dress’ Category
Wrap dress construction details
I thought I’d post a few construction details about my wrap dress project because I think the design has some nice finishing touches. This is a copy of a Vivienne Westwood style from many years ago. I think it was from her Red Label line. I wore the original dress until it wasn’t much more […]
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Tags: construction, Dressmaking, Sewing
I finally finished my wrap dress. It is a copy of a Vivienne Westwood dress I had for many years and wore until it wasn’t fit to be seen. The style is no longer available so the only solution was to make my own version. It has a lovely asymmetric collar detail. The left collar […]
Filed under: Death Star dress, Dressmaking, Finished, Vintage | 10 Comments
Tags: dress, Dressmaking, liberty, Sewing, wrap dress
Disaster strikes
Disaster has struck my wrap dress project. As I posted on Sunday, I managed to cut the body of the dress out wrong side up so it would wrap the wrong way. That was recoverable from – as people kindly said, it’s likely no one’s going to notice. But when I came to sew the […]
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Tags: Cutting, Sewing
Do you notice which way a wrap dress wraps? As you’ve probably guessed, I have managed to cut out my wrap dress the wrong way up so it’s going to wrap left over right instead of right over left. I thought I was being clever by cutting it out with the wrong side of the […]
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Tags: clothing, Cutting, Sewing
Revenge of the stash gods
Remember the other day I was moaning about how I always buy too much fabric and end up with lots of little lengths left over? Well the stash gods heard me, got in their time machine, and went back two years to my very first visit to the fabric shops of Goldhawk Road where they […]
Filed under: Cutting, Death Star dress, Fabric, Rants | 6 Comments
Tags: dressmking, fabric, Sewing
I’ve just done a muslin for my Liberty fabric dress. The pattern is an attempt to reproduce an elderly and much loved Vivienne Westwood wrap dress that has been sitting in a box for the last few years because I wore it to destruction but can’t bear to chuck it. Here’s the now rather sad-looking […]
Filed under: Death Star dress, Drafting, Dressmaking, Fitting | 6 Comments
Tags: Drafting, Dressmaking, Fitting, Sewing
Pattern Choice
I’m still trying to make my mind up about what pattern to use for my Death Star fabric. The reason I was originally drawn to the fabric is that it reminded me of this Vivienne Westwood wrap dress, which I bought years ago and wore until it’s practically in rags. I couldn’t bear to throw […]
Filed under: Burda, Death Star dress, Fabric, Patterns | 8 Comments
Tags: Burda, Dressmaking, fabric, Patterns, Sewing
Death Star fabric
I’m still procrastinating about cutting out my hoodie dress. So with the project queue piling up again, what better time to acquire yet more fabric? This is Liberty’s Emilia de Poret fabric. I’ve been dithering over this since first seeing it when visiting Liberty with Elizabeth and co. This weekend I finally made up my […]
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Tags: Dressmaking, fabric, Sewing
