Saturday, 29 March 2014

Been a while, what have I been up to?!


So its been a while since I last blogged, I am going to blame work, because it has been so demanding mentally, so that is my excuse.

I sew when I can. I have noticed a bit a of a pattern with my sewing habits too. I tend to to do everything up until the last 10%, it seems to just get hard. I know its something I need to work on! Ill add that to the "to do" list.



So far I have been working on a Peplum top that is in the Burda Book, it has been pretty good, I was quite surprised with myself, I use calico first to make sure everything was correct with the fitting,



I was extremely happy once I got an arm on! 
That message went to Google + and Facebook!

A few issues, fitting something to your body shape is not easy, a had to make a lot of alterations and that was tricky.Once I got one arm on my calico, I was ready to put it to pattern to the real deal material, so I brought some nice light non see through material, I purple colour which seems to suit me well (and I just like it too).

This so far has been okay it looks nice below, the photo looks like anyway, but once I put it on, oh my gosh, I just want to throw it away! Its just doesn't feel right! I need help with this one soooo badly. I put a quick video up on Youtube but no one really helped, so Im not sure if you guys can help me? The video is on my posts, would love any constructive feedback.






Saturday, 4 January 2014

Issues with my first proper project!

Okay so I had some big issues once I started sewing the dress. I found it WAY WAY to big for me and then had no idea where to alter the dress from, with the help of +RenĂ©e Boyd and +Claire Cooper  I think I have it sorted out.

Here are images to show you what happened:



Just way to big. What i will do is take it in slight at each panel and then
I will take it in the most at the princess seams as shown here:


Lesson for today, measure the patterns first!

So today I am here with the dress and just the
alterations of the princess seams to go!