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Just back from a work trip. Got to wear a #weekendSewingClub creation… a cut-and-shut of a Burda magazine skirt, with the top half of a dress from another issue.

It’s shorter than I planned, to eke it out of a shortish length of this lovely, light grey and sky-blue check wool.

I like it in its own right, but it’s actually the wearable-muslin for the midi-length version I have planned for THE MOST decadent fabric I have ever bought… dark grey SCABAL herringbone.

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I’ve made a start on the floral satin dress, but I’ve been taking it slow with long sleeps between, because I’m starting my new (old?) job tomorrow, so energy-budgets are tight! Mostly I’ve been cutting out, interfacing, stay-stitching the fluttery, fluid viscose, and (thankfully not many) darts.

Here’s the pattern photo, and the bodice front, to give you a flavour of how the floral will look.

Finally, on Sunday April 28, there'll be another "At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed" event!

Programme:
🧵 Linda McShannock - A Living for the Earnest, A Fortune for the Capable: Dressmaking in Minneapolis, 1880-1920
🧵 Cecilia Soares - A transatlantic wardrobe: an analysis of the Belle Époque sartorial goods from the Ivy House Museum, in Vassouras, Brazil (1870-1910)
🧵 Alden O'Brien - TBD

Read more and register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-wit

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EventbriteAt Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed - 28 April 2024 -3.00pm BST19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed 'At Home' - short talks celebrating the joy of research!

Half-circle skirt is finished!!

I think, now I'm wearing it, I could have comfortably made it shorter and saved myself the trouble I had finding enough fabric left over for the waistband, but I wanted to make sure I could be comfortable in it not baring my knickers to the neighbourhood when I'm lounging in the garden, and there's certainly no danger of that.

Completed my pattern and have made a start on my red Jersey skirt.

This is leftover fabric from the red trousers I made, so there wasn't quite enough for four panels of equal size. Instead I folded the pattern piece in half and have made two panels at half the width, which, idk, I'm gonna call a design choice.

I would have loved a dress in this fabric - it has such beautiful flow! - but I have neither the skill nor enough fabric. #sewing #crafting #dressmaking

#WeekendSewingClub

I got about half way through the blazer dress. Slightly weird order of working, because I wanted to get the lining front done while I can remember how I’d scrapped the lower facing.

Still vacillating about sleeves/no sleeves. No-sleeves is probably more the sort of thing I would wear, and nicer to sew, but there’s something about the substance of the fabric that I think asks for long sleeves.

#WeekendSewingClub - an update on the pattern hacking of McCalls 7997 (blazer dress)

Pic 1 shows the blazer front piece split into top and skirt pieces. You can see the difference in the width of the darts.

The lapel is also raised by 4.5 cm to hit my collarbone rather than sliding halfway down my chest. 🙄

Pic 2 is the top front and matched facing pieces, with an extension added for the peaked lapel. I have some doubts about this particular frippery.