Monday, December 28, 2009

My First Dress

I finally ventured deep into garment sewing other than pajamas and the occasional hemming (by my standards this is venturing in) and I created a sheath dress. I think I did okay, except I think the pattern was not the right size and I did not fully measure myself properly so I don't have as much room as I would have liked. However, I think I did pretty good overall. The fabric pattern looks good and I decide to go out of my comfort zone with the color and chose red. This is the Simplicity Easy-to-sew 3532 version C. I have many more patterns that I want to try out. Like they say PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT (well almost that is)


Not sure if you could tell, but the dress is hanging on a duct tape dress form that my husband helped me with over the weekend. Boy, let me tell ya, it is tight and hot putting on duct tape and a little dizzy too. Glad it is over. It came out pretty good, except for the stuffing part and taping up the seam, it seemed that I could not get enough stuffing to make it level out well. I suggest this to anyone as it helped me to see as I went along how the pattern would look.

Well, I hope everyone had a wondering holiday season and I am very much looking fowarded to 2010. ENJOY and be SAFE!!!!!

2 comments:

  1. I've heard that the duct tape dress forms are worth the trouble! Congrats on entering the world of garment sewing! It's scary to me!

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  2. Thank you. I could not breath from being in that tape (of course I can't stand tight places let alone feeling tight). I had my husband cut it out about 2 layesr in (supposed to have 3). It has truly come in handy when resizing clothing and working with patterns. I tell you garment sewing takes thought. I thought quilting was complex, well when you are trying to fit the body that is a whole new world. But I really like it.

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