Dress for a wedding and stabilizing a low back neckline.
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Category: Dresses
Wool Dress, Inspired by 1956
This project is a vintage style wool dress with my much loved triple darted sleeve (Butterick 5813), darted bodice...
Reusing Vintage Wool – Sheath Dress
We've had a few weeks of cold weather (well, cold to us warm-blooded Sydney-siders at least) and I've been working...
Burda 7494 & McCalls 6706 in Linen
This beautiful fabric is a very fine and lovely linen from Joys Fabric Warehouse. The dress is a modified Burda 7494...
1960s Vintage Lace Dress
This is a fitted dress I made for a wedding using some beautiful vintage guipure lace. The colour is a really watery...
Burda 7494 Polka Dot Spring Dress
I have loved Burda 7494 ever since I saw the many beautiful versions from Julia Bobbin and finally sewed up two in...
Lace Dress McCalls 6706 and Colette Patterns Peony
This dress is made from a "vintage" tablecloth. I remember buying it myself in the 1980s as a gift for my mother and...
Wool Crepe “Audrey” Dress
I have always loved the simple classic elegance that was Audrey Hepburn. Whenever I see a classic black dress I...
Emery Kaffe Fassett Cabbage Roses
This is the Emery dress, which I made up exactly as is with only a small forward shoulder adjustment. The fit on...
Vogue 8379 Wrap Dress
I finally made Vogue 8379. I was inspired by the Wrap Dress Sewalong hosted by Meg at McCalls. So many great...
Vogue 1027 Maxi Dress
Remember the Jaywalk sewing competition from Tessuti last year? I purchased some the fabric mainly because it was so...
Emery Dress with Circle Skirt
This dress is three patterns mish-mashed together to make (for me) the perfect dress. The fabric is possibly my most...
Announcing the Jackie Coat Sewalong!!
Remember this coat? Iconic Patterns Jackie Coat I get compliments everytime I wear it, plus it is so warm and...
By Hand London Elisalex in Red Linen with Half Circle Skirt
Could my post titles be any more boring? No, they could not. This blog definitely demonstrates what happens after 8...
Simplicity 2444 Roses Dress
A few weeks back a saw this dress over on Leisl's Blog. Its Butterick 6582 in a gorgeous stretch cotton sateen from...
Simplicity 2588 Version #2 – Straight Skirt
This is the second version of Simplicity 2588, which is a Project Runway Multi-option pattern that I love. My...
Simplicity 2588 #1 – Flared Skirt
Simplicity 2588 is one of the first patterns I purchased when I started sewing for myself again. In fact,...
Red Velvet Project Red
This is my second version as a pattern tester aka Red Velvet Muse for Cake Patterns. I am representing the...
Red Velvet Project Blue
I was pretty chuffed to be selected as one of the Cake Patterns Red Velvet "Muses" to test sew Steph's latest pattern...
Pink Piped McCalls 6011
Back last year sometime when I was making Simplicity 2444 I found the sewing blog Bernie and I. Bernie and I kept...
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