sew a dress

I’ve declared Mondays to be sewing days, and last Monday I pulled out my fabric, cut out the pieces for the dress and started sewing! The eight starting pieces have now been sewn into a front half and a back half.

The fabric is really pretty – it’s a deep purple cotton/lycra? interlock knit. It was a bit of a challenge to cut out, though, because the fabric is very stretchy, and was in a tube, so getting it laid out on the grain was tricky. I ended up running it through the dryer on low heat for a few minutes (closely monitored) to make it more manageable.

My mum and me are going to out do ourselves! (Or I sure hope so)

In just over a week I have my end of year (end of school!) prom, and for the occasion we’re making a dress after a pattern by dutch designer Mart Visser. He makes the most awesome dresses, and this one just really kicks ass; it’s huge!

here’s a picture of dress, as shown in the magazine we took it from:
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/549/3869/1600/919548/Gala%20Jurk%20Nov06.jpg

(I did not take this picture I found it via google)

Anyways, I bought a dark grey(ish) fabric and there’s a slight problem washing it (as it’s a cotton/synthetic mix) but we’re gonna give it a go. Should we fail, I have a nice brown dress lined up anyway :P

my birthday is this weekend.
i have to work tomorrow and on saturday.
i think friday is my day to get this done.
then i can have a cute dress by the family dinner on sunday!
i have found a couple of tutorials online.
i’m thinking of trying one out.

i have two boxes full of patterns.
they are all old, and way to big.
but i think i can find one that i can adjust so it’s not a tent, and i don’t look like a freak in.
(they are almost all from the seventies and eighties.)
i’ll search through them in the morning.

I’ve just bought a lovely sewing machine, and I have the fabric and the pattern.

My first step will be to cut out the pattern, and then the main fabric. Then, I’ll need to buy the lining and interfacing and cut that out too.

tomorrow!

I finally found an excuse to make a dress; seeing as it’s a school project now, I will have to make time for it. Tomorrow will be the day, because the day after, it has to be finnished…

No worries though, as my starting point was “the easiest model you can imagine, that will fit anyone”

I might just pull it off…

my bat mitzvah is next year and all my friends have gona shopping for theirs. I want to make my own. can anyone point me in the direction of a cute easy pattern?

I just got a machine about 6 months ago and have done a few little projects…made a slipcover for a little storage box, hemmed curtains, hemmed pants, made a pillowcase…nothing too crazy but now I want to make some little dresses for Ella (my 2 yr. old). I love the different fabric you can get and cute little patterns so, that is my next project for sewing. Hopefully I can accomplish it over the winter. I also want to make some soft baby blankets for my cousin, who is due a month before me, and some for myself.

On my shopping list…..

My dress sewing debut is coming soon – as I will need a Halloween costume ready by Oct 25th! Hello Rainbow Brite!!