Sewing in August 2021

Made with Simplicity 5632 from 1973

Made with Simplicity 8028

Made with McCalls M7081

Made with McCalls M7081

Made with Butterick 6683 and the sleeves of Simplicity

 

Made with all thrifted materials using Butterick 6601

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

Things I sewed for Mado

Made using Simplicity 1571

Dress made using Burda  9341

All leggings using Simplicity 8620

Made with Owl print using New Look 6334

 

Flannel PJ's made using McCalls M6458

Mado asked for more red things and less pink and purple.  So more red things :)

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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One of my favourite patterns - New Look 6093

 I first made New look 6093 back in 2015, first with a pink & white plaid stretch woven cotton. I loved the fact the dress was shaped very differently then current dresses I was still buying at the store. What I've recently realized is that it's a 1940's inspired dress, most likely a late 40's pin-up style. I've found a few other dresses made like this one with bias side pieces when researching.  So far all of the ones I've made have been with some form of cotton. Next time I make this dress, I want to make it in a flowy rayon .

One of the things I love about this pattern is that it has a reasonably full skirt but it's not using tons of fabric. I tend to prefer dresses with less fabric than more and I like my dresses above the knee so that I'm less likely to trip. Believe it or not, when I wear long dresses with full skirt, I'm far more clumsy.

New Look 6093 - 40's inspired dress. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made this one in 2015

This one was made in 2017 with quilting fabric from Atlantic Fabrics. It's a stained glass effect with dragonflies

This one was made in 2018 with Quilting cotton

 

With some colourful cotton batik - Last one I made but never took a photo.

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 May sewing.

Simplicity 1251 - cotton hoodie.

Back of the cotton hoodie

Knit wrap around dress made with New Look 6301

Simplicity 1799 with a woven cotton that stretches.

 

More sewing from the 1960's & 1970's

Made with McCalls 9676 from 1969 - with cotton I picked up in PEI in 2019.

Made with McCalls 9676 from 1969

Made with Simplicity 7578 from 1968

Made with Simplicity 8259 from 1969

Made with Simplicity 9833 from 1971

Top made with Simplicity 5211 from 1972

 

More creations from 2021

 Non retro sewing I've done in 2021. 

Bamboo French Terry made with Butterick B5313

Rayon woven made with Simplicity 8125

Made with Burda 7798

Made with Vogue V8685

Double gauze made with Burda 8071

Made with McCalls M7538