One of my sewing aims for 2015 is to sew more
separates, especially skirts and I’d forgotten about this gem of a pattern, Butterick 5285, which was hiding in my stash. The dated illustrations really don’t do this
pattern any justice and a quick Google image search revealed its full
potential.
Our Wedding!
Wednesday 1 April 2015
So this
isn’t a sewing related post but I thought I’d plug a gap in my blogging history
to explain the absence of sewing. Most of January and all of February were
spent crafting and preparing for our wedding then we went straight off on
honeymoon to Thailand. I’m now back sewing and have a gorgeous new Mortmain to
show you next time…
In the
meantime I hope you’ll let me be a little self-indulgent and show off some of
our wedding photos and tell you a bit about the day itself…
A Winter Love Affair
Thursday 8 January 2015
I had a bit of a love affair with the Emery dress pattern at
the end of the year. I’d worked hard to perfect the fit of the bodice and can
now say that it’s perfect, next step would be to draft a few different
necklines for a bit of variety. After my first Emery I’ve since made another four
(all in quick succession). The first two were Christmas dresses. I made a
Christmas dress last year (Simplicity 1873) but that was early on in my
dressmaking and the bodice fit isn’t quite right. In fact when I tried it on
this year it’s way too big - maybe I’d left space for extra mince pies?
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