Several months ago, you may remember me talking about my second dress of the year project, a red seersucker dress with red piping.
Well, after purchasing the material about a year ago and the notions about 5 months ago, I finally got around to actually making it! Once I actually got working on it, it only took about 3 days to make... something like 18-20 hours. Since this is the first sewing project I ever made with piping, I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Also, I'm proud of myself for going the extra step and putting in a liner at the bodice... even if I didn't follow the instructions and added it as an after thought so that the lining ended up coming out a little funky.
(Check out the first dress of the year made by me
here.)
I'm still a newbie at making clothes and up until this year have only sewed clothes for Halloween costumes. The instructions on the sewing patterns still make no sense to me sometimes, but I'm hoping with every project, I will learn a little more each time. This time I learned what exactly grainline means. ;) Also, I learned, I may be able to go down a size in my sewing patterns. I had to take this dress in quite a bit after sewing it, and even still, I can tell it fits a little big. My next project, which I've already started on, is a size down from this pattern so I guess I will see if that hypothesis is true.
For this dress I used Butterick pattern B5603 and followed dress pattern B.
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| Butterick B5603 In Red Seersucker- Front View |
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| Butterick B5603 In Red Seersucker- Front View |
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| Butterick B5603 In Red Seersucker- Side View |
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| Butterick B5603 In Red Seersucker- Back View |
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| Butterick B5603 In Red Seersucker- Close Up of Ties |
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| Butterick B5603 In Red Seersucker- Front View | | |
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| Butterick B5603 |
My goal is to make four dresses this year. With my third dress project already underway, I think I'm going to make it!
That's a super job you've done, I think you've done amazingly well! I can imagine things like piping do make things a bit more tricky. It's a great choice of fabric and you must be very pleased with your efforts! x
ReplyDeleteThanks Porcelina! I'm so excited about this dress and pretty darn happy about the way it turned out :) Also, before I started this dress I went back and adjusted the first dress so now the first dress fits a lot better than it did before too. After I finished this dress, it felt like I had just finished two dresses! :D. The next dress which I'm currently working on calls for interfacing.. we will see how that turns out. I have hope after this job with the piping and lining! :)
DeleteThanks Porcelina! I'm so excited about this dress and pretty darn happy about the way it turned out :) Also, before I started this dress I went back and adjusted the first dress so now the first dress fits a lot better than it did before too. After I finished this dress, it felt like I had just finished two dresses! :D. The next dress which I'm currently working on calls for interfacing.. we will see how that turns out. I have hope after this job with the piping and lining! :)
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