I thought I might persevere with Vogue 1202, so I started to cut out the pattern for the skirt. And then I realised that there is no space in my house large enough to lay out the pattern. And that if the giant pattern piece has to be laid on the fabric sideways, the stretch [...]
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This is Vogue 1202, a designer Donna Karan pattern. I’ve had it in my stash for about a year. I kept unfolding it, looking at the size of the pattern pieces, folding it up and putting it away again. The piece above is the front, and it measures 140cm wide by 160cm long. Which is [...]
This is Vogue 8405, view A. I was a bit worried that it might be hot while I was in London so, as I tend to fall over with sunstroke at the slightest provocation, I thought it would be a good idea to make a massive sunhat. One side is the same purple linen as [...]
This is Vogue 8434, a pattern I added to my stash recently – partly because I was thinking about shirts for the summer, and partly because Vogue were having a sale. In my giant fabric mountain I have nine metres of linen – three metres each of black, white and purple. I also have three [...]
This is Vogue 1290. The copyright date on the pattern envelope is 1993 (can you tell?), but I probably bought it in 1997 when I was given a new sewing machine as my graduation present. The pattern is for a shirt, jacket, dress, coat-dress and trousers. It’s been in my possession for around 14 years [...]
A step ahead
Posted in inspiration, sewing, shopping, tops, Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2011
I walked past my local branch of Hobbs yesterday, and spotted this lovely pink dress in the window. Then I came home and looked in my wardrobe at my pink party dress, which has a very similar keyhole-and-knot detail on the back. Now I don’t need to covet the Hobbs dress, and have thereby saved [...]
Back in April 2009 I made a pair of trousers using Vogue pattern 8367. (Now out of print.) In October 2009 I went looking for a jacket pattern, and came across one which included a pair of trousers that I liked. The pattern was Vogue 8604, which looked remarkably similar to Vogue 8367. Today I [...]
Written c. 1998 by Joan Juliet Buck, the editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 1994-2001: Hair is time. Women with short hair always look as if they have somewhere else to go. Women with long hair tend to look as if they belong where they are, especially in California. Short hair takes a short time. Long hair [...]
This is Vogue 1170, another Rachel Comey pattern. I actually made this one first, and it inspired me to try the pink party dress. You might recognise the design of the back – it’s pretty much identical to the dress, including the not-invisible zip! (This one wasn’t supposed to be invisible, but it should still [...]
This is Vogue 1161, a Rachel Comey designer pattern. I think this ranks as the most technically complicated thing I’ve ever made (look at those right-angled seams on the front!), and I have to say that I’m rather proud of it. Yes, there are things I’d change (mostly in the fit of the bodice), and [...]