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It’s a Garden Party!

20140414-211142.jpg Finally, I sewed up the Garden Party Dress! I’ve had this dress cut out for what seems like ever, but I finally got it finished. I started working on it during KCW and wasn’t able to finish it with in the week. 20140414-211550.jpg I used a fun black and white print fabric called Minimalista for the main part of the dress. For the front yoke and waistband I used this fabric from Cotton Couture by Michael Miller. 20140414-211122.jpg 20140414-211253.jpg 20140414-211234.jpg Seriously, I loved making this dress though. I just love Oliver + S patterns, they have such a cult following and for GOOD reason! After a few rough sewing sessions on other projects, it was almost therapeutic sewing this dress. Loved it.

 

 

Scalloped Sequins

There’s a lot going on this week in the online sewing community! Monday was the start of the spring KCW annnnd the start of the third week of Project run and Play.

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So, I spent my first day of KCW creating my look for the Design your own fabric theme for Project Run and Play. I decided somehow that I wanted to make a scalloped pattern out of sequin trim!

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I had no clue how I was going to execute symmetrical scallops for a repeating pattern. What I ended up doing was tracing half of a round candle multiple times in a row on to some freezer paper. I then cut it out and traced it on my pattern piece. Speaking of pattern, I used the flashback skinny tee in a size 5 for my big girl! After I traced the pattern onto my pattern piece I took fabric glue and glued the sequin trim on the lines I created! It was super easy and fun. You could either interpret it as Great Gatspy-esque or mermaid-esque, I can’t put my finger on it myself! Anyway, I used a light pink organic french terry with raw hems and grey ribbing for the neck binding.


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As usual I’m feeling pretty ambitious with my KCW plans, not sure how much I’ll get done but I’m excited nonetheless!!

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