Posts Tagged ‘dress’

Friday?? I don’t think so…

August 9th, 2010

Saturday night my dress looked like this:

Sunday night the bits were at least cut out!

It’s pretty safe to say that my ‘frock by friday’ is taking a bit more then the one week it was meant to be made in! I hope to have it done by NEXT Friday!

So far it’s been pretty easy. The fabric I’ve chosen isn’t very easy to cut with the rotary cutter, which is a real pain. I’ve been trying to cut with the scissors as much as possible, but I don’t cut in the most straight of lines, so we’ll have to wait and see how it turns out!!

Have you been sewing anything lately?

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A Frock By Friday?!

August 5th, 2010

I always look on in awe at the awesome ‘Frock by Friday‘ creations that people make via Grosgrain‘s instructions. I’ve never followed the process before. I always feel like I wouldn’t be able to dedicate the time each night to making part of it…
It’s true that I really can’t dedicate time each night to doing it, but when I saw how dang easy this dress was going to be to make, I figured I’d be able to make it happen! It’s Wednesday night (well, Thursday morning at time of posting!), and I’ve only just started, but because it’s an American site, they’re a day behind. Technically I am only a day behind, yay! I don’t actually have any fabric prepared, so I will be hitting the shops tomorrow night to pick something out!
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Anyway, so far all I have done is print off the pattern and cut it out. It’s one of those BurdaStyle ones, so I spent forever sticky taping it all together. I would seriously rather pay the (in this case) 4 extra dollars to get one from Spotlight that I didn’t have to sticky tape together, but that would have meant waiting and waiting till I got a chance to actually go out AND have money at the same time.
What sort of fabric do you think I should get for it? I’m thinking a pattern of some sort. Maybe floral? I guess it depends on the price. The other thing I liked about this dress (or more specifically the pattern) is that it was made for larger sizes, which fits me perfectly! Nothing worse then taping and cutting out an entire pattern only to find out that it’s not in your size!! Yes, I do realise I should have checked before I ever even downloaded it!!
Has anyone ever done one of these before and actually stuck to the time line?!

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The finished dress!

June 19th, 2010

Yesterday was a public holiday for some of us on the Sunshine Coast, which makes this another long weekend. Two in a row, and only a three day week inbetween! Usually I love this week, but this year it happened to be three incredibly stressful days, so it wasn’t so great. :-( It made me appreciate the long weekend though!!

I kicked off my lovely free Friday with some old Food Safari episodes, and sewing some last things on my dress. Luke and I spent a bit of time together at the movies seeing Iron Man, which was really good. How much do you want the tech that he has when he’s making digital scans of things etc?! I would watch the movie again and again just for that (and Robert Downey Jr, haha!). I FINISHED my dress last night, after some size modifications, and I am so happy that it’s done!

I somehow managed to make the dress like 4 or so sizes too big, which was kinda annoying, because I measured it and what not. In the end it means that my modifications have made the dress a bit less neat. A bit of a bummer considering how much unusal effort I put into actually MAKING it neat. There’s a lining in it for peat’s sake!

Anyway, it was really quite big around the sides of my torso, so I just sewed in the edges down to the waist. I took the waist in only a little, and kept the hips and skirt as they were. Trying to bring them in would have been too much hassle, because of the in seam pockets I made, so I left. I actually quite like it with a bit of a full skirt.

Speaking of those pockets, I’ve got the pattern for them available to download here. I’ll most likely put it up on burdastyle as well. If you use it, let me know! I’d love to see what you make with them!!

Would instructions be helpful? It was actually quite complicated, so if you don’t know how, I would suggest instruction. I used these ones…

We forgot to go to our friend Kim’s birthday party last night, and I blame the public holiday for making me think it was Saturday!! I woke up at some stupid hour this morning in a panic because I realised we’d forgot! Not cool…

I’m hoping the rest of the day will envolve some baking, menu planning, grocery shopping and relaxing. What do you have planned this weekend?

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