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The Make For Less Challenge ~ The Roksanda Ilincic Harleton Dress – Part 4
I admit, I had actually finished and completed the dress last weekend. The weekend before . . . well I had realised that the bottom part of the dress . . . didn’t actually line up . . . when I say realised, well I mean my mother saw it and literally pointed it out to me. I then spent the whole of Sunday trying to fix it. Yes it took me the WHOLE DAY. I just couldn’t get it to line up. I had to take Strictly Come Dancing break before I could even look at my sewing machine again. I even lost the quick un-pick, well it can…
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The Make For Less Challenge ~ The Roksanda Ilincic Harleton Dress – Part 3
Even though I had kinda made this dress before. And whenever I go shopping and see something that I can’t help but think in my mind “I could totally make that!” I can’t help but second guess myself. Can I really make this item of clothing just how it looks on the hanger or on the website that I am drooling over. But this dress . . . I managed to do most of the dress on Sunday. If I had the perfect zip (that I am currently searching for) and I had remembered that the dress was a v-neck and not a round neck (on the pattern). I think…
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The Make For Less Challenge ~ The Roksanda Ilincic Harleton Dress – part 2
Last weekend, was sick with flu, just needed to have a duvet weekend, so no sewing, but managed to catch up on all my favourite shows (omg Scandal!!!) but this weekend; I finally got started on this dress! But before that, my mind had already been plotting and planning about how I was going to actually make this dress. Possible the easy and lazy (but completely wrong and should not be done) option would have been; get all the different fabrics that I wanted to use. And place it on the pattern pieces and hope that by some miracle that once cut, the fabric would match up perfectly, fit amazingly…
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Sewing project – Vintage Wrap Dress part 2
That awkward moment that you work hard on a post, schedule the post to appear last week. Then only notice a week later that it hasn’t gone up . . . ooopppsss, bad blog mother. Annoyingly, this isn’t the first time that this has happened, but anyway, moving on: Thank god, I didn’t have to go all around London to find the perfect shade of bias binding! Time saved and a good reminder of how great some fabric and shops really are. I had planned to go to Cream’s Café that Saturday (what can I say the waffles are that good, and okay; I’m slightly addicted) for a much needed…
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Sewing project ~ Vintage Wrap Dress, Buttrick B4790
I don’t know if it was the fact that I didn’t have any chocolate for half a week or just plain good luck. But I was finally able to not only get the fabric that I desperately need, but was also able to get some sewing done too! The sewing machine worked without getting angry at me, and I knew what I was doing. It couldn’t go more perfect. Rather then make the same mistake that I made last week of going to my favourite fabric shop on a Sunday. I went to the shop far too early, earlier then I should of on a Saturday morning . . .…
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Damn You Sewing Gods!
I was really looking forward to making this dress. The pattern isn’t too difficult and I know that I would have been able to finish the whole thing in 3 days (give or take a couple of days). But I don’t think the sewing gods like me at the moment, scratch that, the sewing gods completely hate me at the moment. First I have the problem with the skirt that I wanted to make for the Make For Less Challenge. I say problem; both of my sewing machines either couldn’t or just plain refused to sew the pieces of fabric together. I had just about gotten over that, I didn’t…
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Think My Sewing Machine Doesn’t Like Me
Omg! Who knew a simple pencil skirt that should take only a couple of hours to make, would be impossible to create. Really it should have been one of the easiest things that I would have made, EVER! All I had to do was stitch up both sides of the skirt, add the waist band, then the invisible zip; try it on to make sure that I could breath in it and sit down without cutting off circulation to any essential parts of my body. Adjust and fix the mistakes that I was bound to make, because; hello, this is me that we are talking about! And then do the…
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Skirts For Work – Revamp Part 2
Okay; so I was extremely optimistic in thinking that I could complete two skirts within a day, I only just finished the second skirt on Sunday. To be honest the main reason that it took me a while to complete the first skirt was totally down to a little bit of laziness. If I had only taken the skirt completely apart and started from the beginning, it would have saved me a couple of days. But what I actually did was just unpick half of the zip and the hem of the sheer skirt, then I found some random pieces of black fabric (very glamorous) from my massive box filled…
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Skirts for Work ~ McCall’s M6706 Pattern
I just can’t seem to put this pattern down, even though I am not really making the skirt that the pattern was designed for. I’m really enjoying making the gathered skirt . . . mostly because it is super easy. I can make a skirt in a couple of days, that is a miracle for me! After getting the amazing news that I was offered two jobs, I wanted to spend all my remaining free time to make as many skirts and dresses as possible for when I start working for my dream company in September. But damn the dodgy English “summer” weather! I got the flu . . .…
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The Make For Less Challenge ~ Stella Jean Gingham Skirt Part 2
I think because the skirt was not impossible to make, it has turned out to be one of my favourite items of clothing that I have made. I have already been to my favourite fabric shops to try to find some other fabric for this style of skirt 3 . . . okay 4 times this past week. I know; I clearly have an addiction to not only chocolate, but buying and shopping for fabric . . . I have no intention of seeking help for these problem. This was exactly the not so difficult project that I needed after the last Make For Less Challenge, which took forever. And…
