Sigh...

So...yeah...the dress. 

 

Well, if you were to take a potato

(a big, old, oblong roaster, not

one of those cute, little new potatoes)

 

and dress it up

in a short-sleeved version of

 

this

you would have a pretty good idea of how

my first fitting went. 

I repeat......sigh.

All is not lost though, for the penance for impatiently

opting out of making a muslin

is to pick stitches

until

my seam ripper becomes

fused with my digits. 

I'll maked the darned dress and

I'll make it look good on me

dammit.

Swearing that every dress will now have a premade muslin craftily crafted from an old bedsheet,

Elle

xox

***photo courtesy of the Quaker Life in Tasmania site.

 

***what the heck is up with my spacing?!  Typepad must be in cahoots with the Bedsheet Muslin Gang - they're all conspiring to make my life a wee bit more challenging, methinks.

Comments

[Peldyn]

Oh, that Quaker dress is really cute! I have a pattern for a Lowell Mill girl dress that looks a lot like that, LOL!

Good luck with your sewing, I have a few projects sitting here eyeing me and making me feel guilty for being such a lazy slacker.

[Elle]

Thanks Peldyn!  It is cute but I dont think I can wear it to my new job at a very modern office!  I can get away with vintage 50s/60s but Im guessing that Id be pushing it a bit if I showed up looking like I just stepped off an Amish farm!

I think I may re-cut it into a little early 60s shift dress a la Mad Men.  I think the fabrics a bit too stiff for the pattern.

Nice to hear from you!

xo
Elle