Tag: dress
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Sewcialist Tribute Month: Like a Sewing Fanatic
This month’s Sewcialist theme was “Tribute”, sewing projects inspired by another sewing blogger. It should have been so easy to choose one, but it was actually quite difficult to try to narrow down the options seeing how many amazing and different sewing bloggers are out there now. I had to come up with some criteria…
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I Shall Call Her “Mini-Me”
I thought it might be fun to make some matching dresses for Guinevere and I. No, absolutely not those kind of matching dresses. I made skater dresses. Mine has 3/4 sleeves and hers has long sleeves, but we were cold so we didn’t take our jackets off for pictures. We were too busy trying to…
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Corkscrew Cambie
This lovely young lady is my friend Tori. She needed a dress on a tight schedule so she could attend a wedding. Obviously I jumped at the opportunity to revel in creating a confection of satin and chiffon. Actually I said “yes” to the dress-making before I knew exactly what she had in mind…
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Anna Dress: The Jungle Cat Version
Following my Banana Anna, I could hardly wait to make another version; this time in the longer length. As far as I can tell from the multiple versions of this dress I’m seeing getting made up by other sewcialists, the front split seems to be the most popular feature of this dress, but it wouldn’t…
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Aunty Laura’s Confession
I have a confession. A weakness. An unforgivable trait. (Besides being terribly tardy and sporadic in my blog posts. For which I hope my sister will forgive me. Eventually.) No. There is something else. Something that I believe no one else quite understands. Thrift stores. Not that I mean to infer that thrift stores are…
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Vintage Simplicity 3295: Blue Gingham Cuteness
I suspect that the real reason I wasn’t as excited by Guinevere’s Pink Cherry Dress as I probably should have been was this dress right here which I had cut out at the same time. If you think it looks a little old-fashioned, that’s probably because I used vintage Simplicity 3295 which has the copyright…
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Vintage Simplicity 8171: Sweet As Cherry Pie
I was thinking of giving this post the title “What the Vintage Fairy Puked Up”. It doesn’t sound nearly as appetizing as cherry pie, but considering how much of this dress fits the mainstream ideas of what a vintage dress should look like, it would be a pretty good description. It only lacks a…
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McCall’s 7989: I Heart the 90’s
Hooray! I managed to sneak in one last vibrantly colored April Stash Bust before the end of the month (being on the West Coast of the United States, it is still April here, for a few hours at least). The pattern is a slip-dress from a 1995 copyrighted McCall’s (7989) pattern. I couldn’t use…
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Butterick 5748: Vintage to Modern
Remember how I had said that my in-laws anniversary party was 50’s-60’s themed? Thus the squirrel skirt for Guinevere that was needed. I couldn’t let such a perfect reason to sew up a vintage-y look pass me by without getting a new dress for myself. Enter Butterick 5748, a re-issue of a 1960 pattern. Looking…