Dresses Dress for a wedding and stabilizing a low back neckline. Sew Hopeful17 February, 20174 My poor neglected blog! I've been so busy and this blog isn't as important to me as it used to be. I am doing...
Dresses Wool Dress, Inspired by 1956 Sew Hopeful24 July, 20164 This project is a vintage style wool dress with my much loved triple darted sleeve (Butterick 5813), darted bodice...
Dresses Reusing Vintage Wool – Sheath Dress Sew Hopeful19 July, 20163 We've had a few weeks of cold weather (well, cold to us warm-blooded Sydney-siders at least) and I've been working...
Dresses Burda 7494 & McCalls 6706 in Linen Sew Hopeful31 March, 20166 This beautiful fabric is a very fine and lovely linen from Joys Fabric Warehouse. The dress is a modified Burda 7494...
Dresses 1960s Vintage Lace Dress Sew Hopeful28 March, 20165 This is a fitted dress I made for a wedding using some beautiful vintage guipure lace. The colour is a really watery...
Dresses Burda 7494 Polka Dot Spring Dress Sew Hopeful21 March, 20167 I have loved Burda 7494 ever since I saw the many beautiful versions from Julia Bobbin and finally sewed up two in...
Dresses Lace Dress McCalls 6706 and Colette Patterns Peony Sew Hopeful31 January, 201618 This dress is made from a "vintage" tablecloth. I remember buying it myself in the 1980s as a gift for my mother and...
Dresses Wool Crepe “Audrey” Dress Sew Hopeful26 July, 201540 I have always loved the simple classic elegance that was Audrey Hepburn. Whenever I see a classic black dress I...
Dresses Emery Kaffe Fassett Cabbage Roses Sew Hopeful23 July, 201517 This is the Emery dress, which I made up exactly as is with only a small forward shoulder adjustment. The fit on...
Dresses Vogue 8379 Wrap Dress Sew Hopeful5 May, 201524 I finally made Vogue 8379. I was inspired by the Wrap Dress Sewalong hosted by Meg at McCalls. So many great...
Dresses Vogue 1027 Maxi Dress Sew Hopeful3 March, 201529 Remember the Jaywalk sewing competition from Tessuti last year? I purchased some the fabric mainly because it was so...
Dresses Emery Dress with Circle Skirt Sew Hopeful1 March, 201516 This dress is three patterns mish-mashed together to make (for me) the perfect dress. The fabric is possibly my most...
Dresses Announcing the Jackie Coat Sewalong!! Sew Hopeful11 May, 201438 Remember this coat? Iconic Patterns Jackie Coat I get compliments everytime I wear it, plus it is so warm and...
Dresses By Hand London Elisalex in Red Linen with Half Circle Skirt Sew Hopeful26 April, 201420 Could my post titles be any more boring? No, they could not. This blog definitely demonstrates what happens after 8...
Dresses Simplicity 2444 Roses Dress Sew Hopeful5 January, 201428 A few weeks back a saw this dress over on Leisl's Blog. Its Butterick 6582 in a gorgeous stretch cotton sateen from...
Dresses Simplicity 2588 Version #2 – Straight Skirt Sew Hopeful20 November, 201317 This is the second version of Simplicity 2588, which is a Project Runway Multi-option pattern that I love. My...
Dresses Simplicity 2588 #1 – Flared Skirt Sew Hopeful18 November, 201328 Simplicity 2588 is one of the first patterns I purchased when I started sewing for myself again. In fact,...
Dresses Red Velvet Project Red Sew Hopeful2 October, 201327 This is my second version as a pattern tester aka Red Velvet Muse for Cake Patterns. I am representing the...
Dresses Red Velvet Project Blue Sew Hopeful30 September, 201316 I was pretty chuffed to be selected as one of the Cake Patterns Red Velvet "Muses" to test sew Steph's latest pattern...
Dresses Pink Piped McCalls 6011 Sew Hopeful12 September, 201341 Back last year sometime when I was making Simplicity 2444 I found the sewing blog Bernie and I. Bernie and I kept...