Showing posts with label Adjustment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adjustment. Show all posts
Sunday, 1 April 2012
My little demon making me choose....dress for Auds or dress for meeeeee!
OK...I admit it....I am a bad aunty! Was meant to spend this weekend on a dress for my beautiful little niece Auds but when it came down to start cutting out the fabric my scissors took on a life of their own and started cutting out something bigger, something definitely not a toddlers dress.....it was Simplicity 2147 back for round 2. In the end I had this gorgeous Amy Butler fabric, I've been living in the first 2147 dress I made and I knew I wanted to try out the other neckline so this weekend turned into being all about, ME! Next week Auds, promise!
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies Simplicity pattern 2147
Project #5 - the simple shift dress
Simplicity 2147....Learn to Sew pattern, huh more like Learn to Fix pattern. A simple mini dress or tunic top. Listed on the front of the pattern cover is Learn Basic Skills; cut out a pattern, make pleats, stitch a yoke, apply neck facings, stitch a narrow hem, apply lace trim, make a belt. They should have added; unless you can make a sack dress look attractive then learn to modify a pattern. My stating the obvious tip #2 - dont judge a book (or pattern) by the cover.
This is really a very simple pattern made up of 4 pattern pieces (plus the belt). Great beginner (that would be me) pattern as you go through some basic sewing skills to assemble the pattern. The big - and by big I mean voluminous - problem with this pattern is the finished dress is like a sack. You could get lost in all the fabric folds mainly at the back of the dress and I don't know any woman who could make this look attractive. I am suspicious.....very suspicious...(I'm sure one of them was smirking at me)....of the poses of the models on the pattern cover...hmmm direct to camera and arms in strategic positions to hide, I am guessing, the VOLUMES of fabric that the pleating causes. A little shaping Simplicity, would have gone a long way.
Simplicity 2147....Learn to Sew pattern, huh more like Learn to Fix pattern. A simple mini dress or tunic top. Listed on the front of the pattern cover is Learn Basic Skills; cut out a pattern, make pleats, stitch a yoke, apply neck facings, stitch a narrow hem, apply lace trim, make a belt. They should have added; unless you can make a sack dress look attractive then learn to modify a pattern. My stating the obvious tip #2 - dont judge a book (or pattern) by the cover.
This is really a very simple pattern made up of 4 pattern pieces (plus the belt). Great beginner (that would be me) pattern as you go through some basic sewing skills to assemble the pattern. The big - and by big I mean voluminous - problem with this pattern is the finished dress is like a sack. You could get lost in all the fabric folds mainly at the back of the dress and I don't know any woman who could make this look attractive. I am suspicious.....very suspicious...(I'm sure one of them was smirking at me)....of the poses of the models on the pattern cover...hmmm direct to camera and arms in strategic positions to hide, I am guessing, the VOLUMES of fabric that the pleating causes. A little shaping Simplicity, would have gone a long way.
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