Technically the long version of this pattern was for a wedding dress, but I thought it would make a good holiday maxi dress made up in a cotton print. Burda Style magazine 03/2012 - 108C Continuing (...
Firstly, thank you all for the vote of confidence on my loud, sorry - bold - dress! Its not designed for knits specifically, the suggested fabrics are stretch crepe, charmeuse & lightweight...
This was one of my favourite patterns in the last lot of Vogue patterns, but there have been hardly any reviews of it which always makes me nervous! One of the criticisms at the time was that t...
Thank you for the feedback on my two skirts, Im wearing the border print one right now with a black shirt belted on top so I already have 2 top options to wear with it. Just want to answer a co...
I have made this skirt before so it was a quick and easy make - no tracing and very little fitting although I did modify the pattern a little. I left off the pockets and topstitching in my busy...
Now that Easter and my visitors are out of the way lets get back to sewing & blogging. First up I am jumping on the maxi skirt bandwagon with a jersey self drafted version. Self drafted act...
Ok Im all dressed up and ready to accept my awards! I really hope I havent missed anyone out here, but I thought it made sense to put them together. So a huge thank you to Gail, Lori, SewBarbie...
I know there are a lot of you desperate to see the back of the sack dress trend, but I find as long as I add some waist definition they are the perfect thing for our hot and humid summers, easy to we...
This is one of the new dress patterns I purchased recently - McCalls 6163 mock wrap dress - originally because I planned to make a long sleeve version, but I was too slow for that so it is fortunate ...
Good news, I just read today that Burda Style have released the skirt pattern as a download so if you dont have the magazine or cannot face the tracing sheets of doom then you can buy it here. LisaB ...
Well the sun that I was so excited to see last week has gone and it is now raining and chilly! Im soldiering on with summer sewing regardless. I thought this skirt in the March 2012 issue of Bu...
1) Its Friday! 2) My new patterns arrived. I tried to be restrained and not buy things that I already have versions of somewhere, but I wasnt completely sensible as - surprise - they are all dr...
Actually this is only half of the dress in the title - I was a little nervous that the skirt part would be unflattering on me (Cidell ended up not liking hers either but turned it into a top she love...
Here in Hong Kong we recently got a hint of Spring and I was inspired to whip up a warm weather dress. Although this was super quick and easy to make, alas our mini Spring was over before the dress w...
(That so should have been an album title!) After an involved project like a jacket its nice to make something quick and easy so I pulled out some smallish pieces of knit fabric from a stash and found...
As promised here are some photos showing the work on the inside of the jacket. The Singer tailoring book I referred to is really well written, with 3 different options for tailoring a jacket; C...
I chose this fairly classic style jacket from the 01/2007 issue of Burda magazine - Im not sure why I had to go back quite so far to find the details I wanted, but it made tracing out the pattern muc...
To all the giveaway winners who have sent me their addresses, your patterns were posted today in a rare fit of organisation. Its Chinese New Year next week and the way the days fall mean we have holi...
Thanks to everyone who responded to the giveaway and helped me make some room for new patterns! I can see more pattern giveaways in my future. Here are the results, please can you send your mai...
I finally got around to making a successful version of this very popular wrap dress pattern - Vogue 8379. My previous attempt was a bad mix of pattern and fabric placement although I did...
I wore my sequin t a few times over the holidays, it was a great item to have in my wardrobe. There were quite a few sensible questions in the comments and I just wanted to answer them here so ...
This is one of the fall knit dresses I was pondering making at the end of 2011 and after reading your comments I decided to take the plunge. I made the long sleeved version as shown in Burdas p...
Im really enjoying reading the 2011 reviews posted by other bloggers so I thought Id go back over my blog and jump on the bandwagon. What an interesting exercise - for me at least, I learnt a l...
Happy New Year everyone, heres to another great sewing year. Ive just got back from my trip and have a huge amount of blog posts to catch up on. I dont want to miss anything so I will try...
Oh my goodness where has the month gone? Actually I know where it has gone, into a whirlwind of parties and shopping! There has even been a little bit of sewing but that will have to wait...
Thank you everyone for the brilliant comments which really helped me make up my mind about what to sew next. I will show you those plans in my next post because it seems even just writing down ...
Well I am just emerging from the dust and mess after having my floors redone. It would have been far easier to move out for a few days, but since accommodation & storage (for both cats and ...
Ive discovered there are two surefire ways to get my sewing mojo going; 1) Go fabric shopping I ordered some ITY knits from Fabric.com as it is a bit hit and miss getting them here and I really want ...
So sorry for the late post, I hope no one is waiting for me! My excuse is that the place I usually buy my zippers locally has inexplicably been closed for over a week now and so this project ha...
Clearly I loved the November issue of BurdaStyle as, amazingly, I am already making something from it, dress 119. I am making it in a - probably poly - stash fabric in a teal/black heathered sort of ...
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