My last dress sewn in Montreal

 Made inspired by dresses my mom & I wore in the 1960's. My new dress in cotton lace lined in double gauze. Colour inspired by mom. 

September sewing

 

Made with soft cotton knit using Vogue V8685

1940's style dress in Rayon made using Simplicity 1777

Made in unknown - maybe taffeta fabric picked up for $4 at the thrift store and Simplicity  4595 pattern from 1962. 

Silly photo....

 

Retro stress sewing

 Been stress sewing to deal with my feelings so this is what I've made recently

Made using MCalls 2241 from 1969

Made using Simplicity 7456 from 1967

Detail of the border print

Made using 8193 from 1968

New 70's dress

 I've been stress sewing. This is my latest creation. A dress made with pattern from 1972, Butterick 6683

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Another knit dress

 I made this one last fall. I was testing out Simplicity 3503, I made model E in the short version. 

It has come to my attention that disabled sewers appreciate how an outfit looks when one is sitting. So this is the first dress I model both standing and sitting:

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New dresses - I discovered shirring!

Modified New Look 6096 to make it with shirring

Style 2341 from 1978 - My first shirring dress

Made Style 2341 in Rayon.

Favourite Vogue pattern V8724. Love the fit

McCalls M6074 - fabric from FabricLand in Markham

Made in cotton-silk voile lined in rayon.

Made with Butterick B5985

 

More things I sewed for Mado

Here are some things I made for Mado recently. Sadly the hats did not fit. 

Dino hat made with Butterick B5019

Simplicity 1453

Simplicity 1453

Simplicity 1571

Some dresses I made for Mado in 2020

 These are most of the dresses I made for Mado in 2020. All except the purple dinosaur dress, was made with fabric left over from making myself clothes.

Baby blue knit/cotton dress - Burda 9341

Blue knit/cotton dress - Burda 9341

Turquoise Dragonfly print - McCalls M6878

Made with a colourful cotton batik with Burda 9375

Cotton plaid dress - McCalls M6982

Dinosaur dress with fabric ordered from India - made with Simplicity 2377

Hot Pink dress to go with Hot Pink Vans

Rayon bamboo knit dress made with Simplicity 2219

Sewing in 2018

First dress of 2018. I stole the bell sleeves from another dress

Made 4 dresses with 2 pieces of fabric to test them out.

Last dress made in 2017

Terry's mom gave me a Fabricville giftcard for my birhday and with it I got the Fabric I used to make this Dress. It's based on a Burda pattern but I made different sleeves, and I put a shorter zipper. It turned out great! When I was coming out of Costco earlier today the woman who checks your cart on your way out stopped me to compliment me on the dress.

Too tight

I made this dress in September mostly but it was too tight, so I didn't finish it till sometime last week. I can get it on, but there's no way I'd wear it to a party.

McCall's 6315 from 20 years back.....

McCalls 6315 from the early 1990's

I used to love this pattern. I've made probably 2 dresses and 2 "jumpsuits".  The 2nd jumpsuit I'd started probably in 1994 or 1995 but never finished it. That had been sitting in a sewing machine drawer for the past 20 years easily. I have no interest in having a jumpsuit so I turned it into a dress.  It is baggish like most 1990's dresses but still fit awesome.

IT's a horrible picture and a bit fuzzy. The dress is made from a soft Rayon challis, Teal with pink and burgundy flowers. The print was so pretty that's what finally convinced me to turn it in to a dress.

Retro dress with Butterick 3223

Soft Rayon print made with Butterick 3223

I absolutely love this Butterick pattern from the mid 1990s I've made several dresses with it in the past few years, but none just in plain rayon woven. I've made it totally in stretch knit, and as well as top in stretch knit and skirt in woven.  I love how it fits exactly how I left it in the mid 1990s in a woven.

Soft Rayon florals are all the rage this fall.

Butterick 4281

This pattern dates from the mid 1990's but the styles from then are back in style now.  This pattern is perfect for making Rayon dresses. The last one I made of this model goes to my ankle. When I assembled this one, I made mistake originally and had the front pieces backwards which made the dress fit lopsided. I realized my mistake and fixed it, but the front still seems a bit uneven.

Vintage Simplicity pattern with particularly ugly rayon print.

Made with Simplicity7243 from 1990's

I don't know what possessed me to buy this fabric other than I liked the texture. The print is horrible. I wouldn't even have a couch made out of this print!

Love this dress made with Burda 7798

I'd been experimenting with the two Burda patterns because I wanted to make a dress with this black and red Rayon I had. Turned out spectacular. THe only difficulty was the damn zipper. It was bubbling because the fabric was on the BIAS. I read that you can use interfacing under the zipper and it helps to stableize. I still found it bubbling a bit, but it was much better. My friend Mado at work suggested that since I'm short and tiny, next time I use a 45cm instead of a 55cm zipper. With 10 cm shorter it won't bubble on my butt.