Tag: 5260

Sparkly Velvet Tunic

Butterick 5260

This is Butterick 5260, a variant on View A. I only had a very small piece of fabric, so I ended up shortening both the top and the sleeves. It was supposed to be a short dress, but it’s a long top now! I also did away with the little piece of elastic gathering at the front, because I just couldn’t get it to sit right.

I made this in one afternoon, before going out for cocktails and dinner with friends that same evening. It went together really quickly, and I’m very pleased with it. The only down side is that the glitter has a tendency to spread itself everywhere!

Butterick 5260

Butterick 5260

This little dress is the first time in ages that I haven’t made a single alteration to the pattern as I was going along. I simply cut out the pattern, cut out the fabric, and sewed it all together according to the instructions. Very unlike me.

It’s Butterick 5260, view C.

The dress is much longer on me than the pattern illustration suggests. I’m about 5’5″, and it sits just above the knee. For some reason the sleeves have come out extremely long – they completely cover my hands. As it turns out I don’t mind that, but it was a bit of a surprise when I tried it on!

The fabric is a devoré (or burnout) velvet of unspecified fibre. I suspect polyester. It’s one-way stretch, and it was much easier to work with than I expected. There was the usual amount of fluff clogging up the sewing machine and the overlocker, but the pieces didn’t shift about too much while I was sewing.

I think a future project needs to be a range of slips in different colours, to wear underneath. Otherwise I’m not entirely sure how much wear I’m going to get out of a mostly-transparent dress!