It seems like I have the perfect occasion to make a cocktail dress… I am invited to a friend’s wedding early in June. It will be a church wedding with a lunch reception. Though very excited… I am starting to panic for the dress. Oh my… Needless to say I will have to make a muslin. (c) AFTER SIX DRESSES Location-wise it will be in … Continue reading Going to a wedding: which dress?
Some weeks ago I decided to take up a new challenge in my sewing career (ok, I admit the word “career” is a slightly over the top… but being already a Sewing Princess, I thought it was cool to have a career!): sewing a shirt. I love the crisp look of a shirt and the elegant touch a shirt gives whenever I wear it over … Continue reading My first shirt
After a year of sewing clothes and many more simply hemming pants and sewing couch covers and other simple projects, I have finally bought myself a serger. I am a gadget lover and a bit of a techie, I have to admit so having a serger was something I have been dreaming for a while. Like many of you I have been pondering over and … Continue reading It’s serger time!
Here is finally the dress that has been giving me so many headaches, my own version Burda Dress 10.2009 no. 117. As we all know making your own dresses is something not always easy… this dress is an example. After having spent one week working on it after work, I had to take it apart. The cut below my chest was falling way too low. … Continue reading My own Grey Dress Burda 10.2009 no. 117
I was hoping to post my pictures on my current dress project taken from Burda issue 10/2009…, but sometimes things don’t work out as planned. So, here is a preview picture directly from the Burda website I was a bit disappointed with the initial result on this dress… I have put so much work on it that it was depressing to see how it fit … Continue reading A new dress Burda 10/2009 117 and where to buy Burda fabrics
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