I'm continuing my journey into making items of clothing predominately dresses for little girls, though they do get a model on my boys when I need to check a similar size. As an extension of that journey I have decided to start blogging about my sewing (and other unrelated) escapades.
This is my latest attempt at a dress. You will have to excuse the Thomas the Tank engine stickers on the door. Unfortunately our very small flat has limited places to hang items to photograph (particularly at midnight which is when I was taking them).
I wasn't overly impressed with the fabric I have to say, but I did get it in a sale for something ridiculous like £2 a metre so I should probably be grateful it didn't decide to fray instantly. As this is my first attempt I have just used whatever print came to hand as soon as I put my hand in the fabric box. I also tend to be quite lax when it comes to matching threads when I'm doing a rough first attempt hence the reason there's a monochromatic thing going on with the bias binding. Also please ignore the random piece of bias tape hanging off the bottom it needs tacking up but I really couldn't be bothered last night and as it's a first attempt dress I'm not too fussed as no one will be wearing it.
I'm quite chuffed with how it has turned out. I almost always seem to be surprisingly pleased with myself after I've successfully made a piece.
Just to recap on the dresses I've made before (and shameless post pictures).
This is my first ever dress. It's a wrap around pinafore which is apparently fantastic for showing off cloth bums. I made it out of a remnant of ikea fabric (Susannah) and some plain red cotton. I love ikea fabrics for sewing with as they are generally quite a heavy weight cotton and I find them very easy to manipulate.
This is the second dress, also an ikea fabric which I believe has been discontinued now (boo as it's gorgeous!). I made this specifically for a rather fabulous little girl called Sophie.
My third dress was made from bits a remnant of material. It was bought from hobby craft nearly 4 years ago now but I'm sure there are very similar prints (if not the same) still floating around.
I then decided to move on and try marking a party dress but being a spur of the moment decision I used a heavy furnishing fabic I'd bought to make cushions and some spare hot pink cotton drill. I was so impressed with myself when I finished this as I'd had some real difficultly understanding how it was supposed to go together I woke my husband up in the early hours to show him. Quite understandably he didn't really care for being woken up over a dress.
We then had the slightly over confident satin 'dress'. I've decided I don't like working with satin and that it is the devil's fabric. After finishing I was desperately disappointed with it more so because I'd just put hours of care and effort into making a dress that at best only mildly offended my eyes.
So I thought that Making the band thinner would save this abomination. It didn't.
Then we come to the car dress which I adore. It's made for a friend who's daughter loves cars but they are unable to find any kind of clothing with cars on or a girl. Now this I find totally unfair so I offered to make her a dress to fill this need. I used an ikea fabric. It's available as yardage fabric or you can buy it made into bed linen. I assure you I used the yardage not the bed linen.
I'm not 100% happy with it at the minute as I think it needs a waist band. I've discussed this with my friend and I think we've agreed it would look better with a waist band so I'm going to make one in the style of a road. It's going to be black cotton with white lines embroidered on. I for one am stupidly excited about it!
If you made it to the bottom of my rather mammoth blog post you probably deserve a medal!
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