Remember the dress I made for the Vintage Vogue competition?
The deadline was today, so yesterday after work Paul and I rushed out to take some pictures. This is the one that I sent off to accompany my entry.
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I started making these trousers back in March, when I started my new job. Then I decided I didn’t like them, and they went on The Pile. Last weekend I was going to a party, and I wanted to wear my Jeffery~West shoes, so I thought it was about time I finished off the trousers [...]
I think this is going to be my entry to the Vintage Vogue competition. I’m not 100% certain whether it’s finished, or whether the seams go on the inside or the outside. I’m going to wear it and live with it for a bit before I decide. I also need to take lots of photos, which [...]
As promised a couple of days ago, here’s an almost-finished Burda 7808. Just the hand-sewing and thread-neatening to go, and then it’s done.
As it turns out, I followed the instructions more than I expected to - although there are a few things that I’ll change next time. I added extra gathering to both the front [...]
This week’s been a pretty hot one, as far as weather goes in the UK. I’m sure most people are thrilled to bits (in fact I can hear them all outside, laughing and enjoying their barbecues in their gardens), but unfortunately for me, I’m really not very good at hot. I get sunstroke very easily, [...]
I like Henry Holland, and he had some trousers in Debenhams, and they were pink tartan, so obviously it was compulsory for me to buy them.
(Yes, I know they look ridiculous. I have every intention of wearing them anyway.)
But!
Because these are tapered trousers, the legs were much too tight in my usual size. So I [...]
Andrea Katz Objects
Posted in inspiration, sewing on Apr 4th, 2010
This afternoon I went and had a little look at the Vogue Patterns website, to see whether they had any patterns I could modify for a dress idea I was thinking about. Before I’d even got that far I discovered that the new season’s patterns have been released, and this is one of them.
It’s a [...]
New job, new dress! I imagine this theme will continue for quite a while, until I’ve got a wardrobe full of clothes that I’m happy to wear to my new job.
This one is McCalls 9456. I’ve had the pattern for years - so long, in fact, that it’s now gone out of print. It’s just [...]
This is what’s been keeping me busy for the past few days - Laughing Moon #106, California Pants.
These pieces are just the linings and facings for the pockets, waistband, gussets and fly.
As you can probably tell, I’ve still got a long way to go with these! My plan to try and make two pairs before [...]
Bobbin Support.
Posted in sewing on Jan 24th, 2010
This is why I’ve been quiet lately - my sewing machine’s been out of action, and I’ve only just got it back!
Before Christmas it had started acting up a bit - the upper thread would get caught in the bobbin mechanism, and I’d have to disentangle it all every few minutes. I mentioned this when [...]