Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Dress coming together

After showing you all options I like to share my progress. This is the result of a rainy Sunday afternoon.

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I considered all the suggestions and votes given. thank you so much for that. The blue was more teal than I remembered and after also coloring the back options I decided on above variation. I took my chances and did not make a muslin. I’ve made so many in the past months (a lot not blogged about) that I was completely in a mood not to make one. I drafted a pattern with my own measurements with no ease for the bust (either positive or negative), drafted the lines in it, repositioned the darts in the front to match the lines and crossed my fingers it would work. It does! Happy dance. I do need the bust and back darts and did not try to take those out.

I will cut 3/4 sleeves and see how that will look. A sleeveless dress is no option here in these winter months and a jacket or cardigan will also hide what this dress is about.

The side seams are only basted and the darts not pressed yet. To be continued…..

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14 comments:

  1. MarianneJanuary 20, 2015 at 10:20 PM

    It's looking good! Very much like your inspiration dress!

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  2. reneeJanuary 20, 2015 at 10:29 PM

    It's already looking good! I love the color combo you went with.

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  3. velosewsJanuary 21, 2015 at 2:24 AM

    This is looking really good.

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  4. patsijeanJanuary 21, 2015 at 4:56 AM

    This dress is going to be quite lovely, Sigrid. I love the colors!

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  5. AllisonCJanuary 21, 2015 at 5:21 AM

    Looking great - really nice job on getting all those points meeting perfectly.

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  6. Linda LJanuary 21, 2015 at 1:02 PM

    This is looking great! I do like the colors you are using.

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  7. AnneJanuary 21, 2015 at 2:21 PM

    I really like the way you have put this together, and the colours. And from your own pattern, too. I'd like to get to that point with my slopers. One question, though - I understood that you can't just add sleeves to a sleeveless garment so is this drafted specifically to take sleeves?

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  8. SigridJanuary 21, 2015 at 4:11 PM

    Anne, I'll come back to this. I'm using a drafting system and there's nothing mentioned on changing the block for sleeveless. It assumes sleeves are added apparently. Will ask about this.

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  9. Tia DiaJanuary 21, 2015 at 5:55 PM

    Impressive. It's going to look wonderful!

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  10. Nancy KJanuary 21, 2015 at 9:24 PM

    I love it. It's going to look great.

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  11. VickiJanuary 21, 2015 at 9:25 PM

    Looking great. And isn't it wonderful when you try a make on and it fits!

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  12. GailJanuary 24, 2015 at 11:20 AM

    I love it.

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  13. JeanJanuary 24, 2015 at 4:34 PM

    This looks so stylish! Three-quarter sleeves will look great on this.

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  14. poetsieJanuary 25, 2015 at 4:20 PM

    Wat een mooie jurk heb je gemaakt, was het een moeilijk patroon?

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