Showing posts with label dress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dress. Show all posts

Saturday, July 17, 2010

#11 Orange Plaid Dress

I found the pattern instructions! Like a week later, haha. Thankfully, I was too lazy to go to Fabricland to replace the pattern so it just turned up on it's own. I am pretty much the worst finder of things ever.

I still have so much of this fabric left, omg. The lady convinced me to get the end of the roll...and honestly, it didn't take all that much convincing since I fell in love with the orange-ness of it instantly. It's probably enough to make a skirt or something later on.

I'll be soaking up the sun and folky tunes at the Calgary folkfest next weekend in this dress. Mom will have a fit because I can't really wear a bra with it (she's always been a nag about covering up, lol).

Onto the pics!
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So bright! I did my best ti match the stripes, but it did get a bit wonked out.
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This was supposed to be long like the brown dress I made, but it's summer! What does summer stand for if not short dresses and crazy colours? So I hemmed the shit out of it, haha.
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And the back! I'm sad that the weird top part doesn't really lie flat, but I think I can fix that easily enough (if I cared a little more, lol). This bodice pretty much makes it impossible for me to wear a bra with it. Or at least any that I own. Even my strapless would show in the back. I had sticky cup bra pieces once, but I lost them. :S

Oh well, I love this dress. Yaaaay!

Monday, July 5, 2010

#9 Yellow Sundress

Since I loved that pattern I used for the Ichigo costume so much, I decided to make it again! Normally, I don't make the same pattern twice but this is too easy and fun to make.

I headed out to Value Village on Saturday morning in hopes of finding some sweet cheap fabric, and voila! There was this beautiful, bold yellow linen that would be perfect for summer time and the heat that will hopefull come soon. It's been so cool here! Nothing over 20 degrees and it's July now. Ugggh. Anyways, I also found some lace and instantly had dreams of what to make. The fabric in total was about 5 dollars, hell yes! Turns out it was an Ikea fabric, haha.

Picture time!
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^The dress laid out
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^On me now :)
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^ Eeeh the back. I used a zipper that was smaller than the pattern asked for, pretty much whatever was around the house. It was kind of huge and clunky, and doesn't really suit it that well...but oh well. :B I usually pair the dress with a cardigan that covers it up anyways, haha.
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^ Yay! So happy about this dress. :D