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sewing in style sewing in style friday may 1 2015 the great dickens christmas faire in costume so i do love an excuse to dress up particularly if said dressing up involves a corset and a hoop skirt because of this love i left the 2013 great dickens christmas fair bound and determined to attend in 2014 but this time in period costume so after recycling some undergarments from past costumes i sat down to plan out my own dickensian dress i ended up mixing and matching pattern pieces from a few different sources including simplicity 2881 and 3727 i also referenced patterns of fashion 2 by janet arnold which provides a great sense of the shape and seam placement some day i d like to try to scale something from that book up to person size but for now it mostly serves as inspiration for my own franken patterns so without further ado my great dickens christmas dress this thing was both fun and a bit of a chore to wear the corset was actually pretty comfortable who needs abs when you have an exoskeleton but the hoop was huge i had to sit in the back of the car by myself i also didn t get the front of the skirt quite full enough for such a large hoop so i wound up with a little bit of pulling across the front it was just so much fabric that said wearing that much fabric is somewhat freeing my actual shape was irrelevant when compared to the overall shape of the dress thus a total lack of self consciousness welł other than when we were walking to and from our car that we parked on a random side street in daly city that bit felt odd my favorite element is the green shoulder flaps this detail was borrowed from 2881 but utilized in a slightly different way as i wanted to make a winters day ensamble rather than a light evening gown so i borrowed the shape but used them as a decorative rather than construcural element however i thing this shape along with the heavy fringe helps create that sloped victorian shoulder and the placement and sea lines in the back accentuate the waist my only real disappointment is that i didn t have time to construct a bonnet i guess i ll have to plan ahead for next year enjoying some great lakes christmas ale after the fair posted by jenny at 6 05 pm 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest hello again i last posted just over 7 months ago seven months this is a long time usually when i m working on something i think about how i m going to blog it about 60 of the time i remember to take pictures sadly though pictures need to be edited and then they need to be uploaded to something other than my phone or ipad then i actually have to write stuff down it s a lot of work you guys and at the end of the day i am sorta lazy i inevitably run out of steam somewhere between the sewing part and the writing part leading to the past seven months now i could make excuses for instance we did move so for a few months there i wasn t doing much in the way of sewing i was mainly searching for apartments and then moving into said apartment and then deciding how to decorate the apartment all of which i m quite pleased with but is rather time consuming i also have been spending a good chunk of my sewing time on the bridesmaids dresses i m making for my sister s wedding that wedding is now in two weeks and we are getting down to crunch time are the dresses done hahaha no but because i m a glutton for punishment i ve decided that a better use of my time is catching up on my long neglected blog because that s the sensible type of lady i am other than the dresses the major sewing news since i last wrote include a costume for the dicken s fair the acquisition of a new to me sewing machine puppet outfits the making of some deeply unflattering pants and a dress that is both crazy comfortable and crazy looking stay tuned posted by jenny at 5 41 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 29 2014 a weekend palette cleanser m6844 and simplicity 2475 for the past two weeks i have been wrestling with the decades of style object d art dress 5007 while it is coming along and i think will be a nice addition to my work wardrobe it has also been a colossal headache the dart inserts didn t fit into the pattern correctly and even once i sorted that out the bodice just fit wrong i eventually added a bust dart that seems to have fixed the gappage issues i will get into the details later but completely ran out of steam you know when you like a project but are not excited about it and then it stares at you from your dress form begging to be completed but the very idea of tackling it is overwhelming so then instead of sewing you pour a giant glass of wine and watch doctor who just me in any case having reached the dreadful point where sewing felt like work rather than a joy i realized i needed a palette cleanser a quick simple project or two that would restore my confidence and refresh my spirit so this weekend i tackled mccall s lovely 6844 and made a ponte pencil skirt based in simplicity s 2475 i first noticed m6844 when patternreview com named it 2013 pattern of the year my love grew every time it saw another rendition in the blogosphere it seems to look good on everyone so a mere two years after the peplum trend swept the nation i have taken the plunge i used a brown and black heavy weight sweater knit from fabric mart that i bought a few weeks ago the fabric has a great weight and heft that adds some jacket like structure to the cardigan plus i love that the black and brown pattern will expand the versatility like woah obviously that picture is a little faded but you get the idea the pattern itself required minor alterations i cut an xl and added 3 inches if length to the torso and 2 inches to the sleeve length i determined these alterations by holding the pattern up to my torso eyeballing and saying to myself eh good enough in what may be my favorite part of the sweater it didn t require any fancy finishing i sewed all my seams with a stretch stitch side note is that what it is called you know the one i mean programmed stitch 03 on my machine the one that looks like a lightning bolt i then finished all my seams on the serger and pressed easy peasy the only complicated part of this pattern was finishing the underside of the collar i had run out of knit so i cut the underside of the collar front band in a black ponte of similar stretch but different weights unfortunately serving these two fabrics was not as finished as the rest of my seams so i cut some bias tape out of a brown stretch material and bound the seam it isn t perfect but it is neat enough that i won t be terribly embarrassed if the collar lays wrong and someone sees it to further prevent such a disaster i tacked down the front band at the waistline with a few stitches to help keep the proper shape and drape in the front and of course the requisite blurry on a human shots seriously this will be a new staple i plan to wear it on the plane wednesday also likely to become a new staple palette cleanser 2 a black ponte pencil skirt so i used to have this great pencil skirt from anne taylor it was a heavy ponte knit similar to high end yoga pants high waisted and fit beautifully through multiple weight gains and losses i wore it until developed holes in the side seams that could no longer be repaired and while i have made and purchased other black skirts none have managed to live up to the comfort and versatility of that long lost perfection in an attempt to recreate it i bought two yards of extra heavy weight ponte from spandex world as the old skirt had princess seams and a shaped waistband i decided to use simplicity 2475 as a jumping off point i cut a size 22 i initially sewed in a zipper but it went in wavy due to the extremely stretchy fabric luckily i realized that the extremely stretchy fabric also rendered the zipper unnecessary so i sewed up the seam and pulled on the whole kit and caboodle it was i ll fitting and enormous i flipped the whole thing inside out and pinned out the excess from the seams in the end i took out about two inches from each side seam and an additional inch from each side of the waist when i attempted this pattern in the past using a woven it was boxy and i didn t much care for it however in the stretch material it has a far better shape i still don t really care for the kick pleats and they are not really needed for movement here i may ultimately sew up the seams to remove the pleats we ll see and happily these items work really well together here is my outfit du jour to be worn with my new gucci shoes that i bought for under 50 that s right look impressed posted by jenny at 10 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 15 2014 m6503 a modern pattern with vintage flair the process in pictures so yeah i really like this pattern it fits well it is flattering it is comfortable to wear and it is so easy to sew for this version i used liberty tana lawn in a small scale floral print typically i like a larger and more graphic pattern but in this case i made an exception because this fabric is so lovely unsurprisingly it sews up like a dream and is perfectly suited to this pattern so here is that delightfully easy process in pictures step 1 interfacing for this pattern you need to interface the midriff sections collar and front band then you skip to step 14 and gather along the lower edge of the bodice before moving to step 18 steps 18 22 these steps have you attach the interface front band to the bodice front sew on band facing flip to the correct side press and tack down to add some extra detail and finish i decided to top stitch the front band pastels 23 24 back darts and attach the front and back bodice step 29 30 then i added the collar and again i top stitched to finish to clarify the top stitching is largely because i am too lazy to do any hand stitching then we skip to step 36 39 and add and finish the sleeves step 40 45 then i attached the midriff band at this point i did not follow the directions as written but rather sewed on both the band and facing with one seam step 50 52 next i completed the pleats on the skirt sewed up the non zipper side of the skirt and attached the skirt to the midriff band now we break for a cat cue elevator music as an aside i also top stitched the midriff band step 50 59 zipper and finishing i finished the dress by sewing in a 12 14 invisible zipper and completing the side seam i then sewed in three buttonholes attached the buttons and hemmed the dress given the light weight of the fabric i did add a small strip of fusible interfacing along the edge where i ultimately installed the zipper this both adds stability and heft which makes the zipper easier to sew in and it adds some strength to the part of the dress that will likely get the most wear and strain initially i planned on using small red shank buttons but once the dress was complete it seemed too childish and cartoony so i busted out the button box and instead went with a burnished gold plain button the final step wear your new dress look adorable and be photo bombed by your feline assistant and yes i posed with my bike it lives in my living room so i may as we ll adopt it as an accessory also i am really looking forward to riding in this dress posted by jenny at 9 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me jenny view my complete profile blog archive 2015 2 may 2 the great dickens christmas faire in costume hello again 2014 14 september 5 july 1 june 2 march 2 february 2 january 2 2013 41 december 3 november 3 october 9 september 5 august 6 february 7 january 8 2012 25 december 4 november 1 october 1 september 4 june 2 may 5 march 1 february 1 january 6 2011 55 december 1 november 1 october 3 september 13 august 1 may 1 april 7 march 9 january 19 fantastic blogs 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