Posts Tagged ‘blue’
You can’t win them all
Last week I finally managed to complete a dress I started making at the beginning of May. It’s taken nearly a month – real life took over from sewing for a while! I tried the finished dress on with great excitement, only to realise that the project is a complete failure. It’s wearable enough to […]
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Tags: blue, Burda, dress, Dressmaking, Sewing
Radio silence
I’ve been having a little break from blogging for the last couple of weeks because real life has been getting in the way. But things have calmed down a little now, and I managed to get some sewing done at the weekend. The weather’s been so unseasonably cold in the UK lately that I was […]
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Tags: blue, Burda, dress, Dressmaking, Sewing
The impossible colour
Behold my sister’s new dress, which she has kindly let me blog pictures of before putting it in the post to her. It’s Simplicity 3775, a classic knit dress and sadly now out of print. The fabric is a wool-elastane jersey which came from Cloth House on Berwick Street in London. My sister wanted a […]
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Tags: blue, Dressmaking, Sewing, simplicity
Dragon kimono pictures
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I’d been making a kimono for my mother. It is now with her, so I can post some pictures of the finished object! Unfortunately you can’t really see the sleeves when it’s hanging on the dressform, so here’s a better shot. The cuffs were an improvisation because I […]
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Tags: blue, Dressmaking, gold, kimono, Sewing
Thank-you all so much for the nice comments on my last post about Vogue 1220. I can report it stands up to wearing at work pretty well. What I’m doing at the moment is making a kimono for my mother. I’ve made kimonos before. The one the one I posted about last year was made […]
Filed under: Cutting, Dressmaking, Fabric, Kimono | 6 Comments
Tags: blue, Cutting, fabric, kimono, maths, Sewing, symmetry
Into the blue
So here’s my version of Vogue 1220 being worn by me for the first time, as opposed to my dressform. I really like it. But it’s not at all the easy-to-wear shirtdress I’d envisioned. This dress is short. I’m surprised by the shortness because the envelope photo shows it stopping on the middle of the […]
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Tags: blue, Dressmaking, Sewing, shirtdress, Vogue
Blast from the past?
So here’s Burda 135-08-2010 finished. It comes from the ‘Take one, make four’ feature in August’s Burda. The four patterns are all short skirts, supposedly in the style of the four main characters from Sex and the City. This one is supposed to represent Carrie. Burda made their version up in bright pink duchesse stain […]
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Tags: blue, Burda, Dressmaking, Sewing
Disaster is narrowly averted
Thanks everyone for the comments on the Westwood skirt knockoff! Emily H. mentioned a pleated skirt from the August Burda. There are two in that issue and strangely enough one of them was what I was already planning to sew next. I want to sew the other one too but I don’t have any suitable […]
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Tags: blue, Burda, Cutting, Dressmaking, fabric, pleats, Sewing, wool
Burda shirt finished
I finally finished the shirt. I’m pleased with it although, as always, there are things that could be improved. The fit isn’t quite right around the arms, so I’m getting creases across the top of the sleeve. It’s maybe clearer from the back view where there’s a funny fold near my armpits. It’s not uncomfortable […]
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Tags: blue, Burda, Sewing
New horizons
I can’t remember the last time I sewed something that wasn’t a sleeveless dress. After I finished the balloon dress I’d run out of planned projects and inspiring fabric so I had a rummage through my old copies of Burda and checked out the online pattern stores in the hope of finding something different to […]
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Tags: blue, fabric, Inspiration, orange, Patterns, plans
