Vintage Sewalong 2011 – decisions, decisions!

December 28, 2010.Reading time 3 minutes.

Have you come across the Vintage Sewalong 2011 in sewing blogland yet? No? Then click here! I promptly signed up, and now I’m in the process of deciding what to make. As usual I’m using stash fabrics, which is rather restricting, although I did have a considerable increase in available options recently…. Potential candidates so far […]

~a gown for christine~

August 29, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

Here is another favourite wedding gown from the archives: This gown evolved from another design with similar asymmetric lines, but the bride suggested draping the bodice area instead. We certainly had a lot of fun figuring out the positioning of the draping on her toile – but it really was worth it, as it showed her model figure off […]

~the twist dress~

July 20, 2010.Reading time 6 minutes.

I’ve finally finished the twist dress! It has been sitting on the mannequin, conveniently concealed by my partially made trenchcoat, ever since I did this: Mmm. Moving right along… All I had to complete was the zip, armhole facings and hem, so really it was finished in no time. I tend procrastinate on projects that aren’t going as planned, […]

~twist and shout: another 60’s dress~

July 2, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

Is it just me, or has anyone else done this?!: I varied from my usual assembly method and followed the pattern instructions – and ended up in a right twist! Normally inserting the zip is one of first things I do, and if I had it would have been difficult to make this mistake. But in this 60’s shift dress […]

~a grey tweed dress~

June 30, 2010.Reading time 4 minutes.

Yesterday I finished Style 3109, a shift dress from 1971: I used some charcoal tweed from stash, and I just had enough to squeeze View B out minus the facings, so I cut them in a fine black wool instead. The tweed is a wool/silk and is so very soft, you could probably wear it […]