I would like to start by saying that somehow (unintentionally) I have over-represented my sewing abilities on this blog. A few of my MANY, MANY readers (ha ha) have gotten the impression that I'm a better seamstress than I am in reality. I'm glad that I've been able to fool you. Hooray for the internet & 2-dimensionality.That said, Chick's Easter dress is all that I had hoped for, and I am actually proud of having been able to make it! I did use a pattern for general shape of the bodice & skirt, but I altered them. I drafted the sleeves, and I added the lining (which has tulle added) & ruffles & pintucks. I did buttons & buttonholes down the back, rather than a zipper like the pattern used. It's not really complicated in design, but I'm happy to have gotten the dresses to be so similar.
I studied the original dress. It was a great learning experience. It helped me remember when I was in college--in drawing classes I was given assignments to copy famous works of art, in poetry classes I had to analyze famous poems and write my own using the exact same pattern & grammar, and I think most religions recommend studying and following their Master. I've always learned a lot from these exercises, so it's no great surprise that I learned so much from studying a sewn dress that I loved. For instance, I didn't notice at first that the pintucks and ruffles were in different patterns.
ANYHOW, here are the pictures!
Curly Locks, curly locks, wilt thou be mine?
Hunting eggs with cousin K
7 comments:
Those dresses are so cute!! You have a talent!!
And I will start out by saying, "Whatever!"
Those dresses are adorable. I love the little blue ruffles. Sigh. Maybe someday I'll have granddaughters to make Easter dresses for!
So cute!! Great job, and yes you DO have talent!!
I can't say anything other than, YOU'RE AMAZING!! Love the dresses!
Oh my gosh, So Cute! I can't alter patterns just by sight, so you do have a talent! I am still in process of making my 2 older girls their Easter Dresses. It is taking a while because I haven't looked at clothing patterns in many years and I was a bit rusty...so I practiced on Kiara's--she won't care that it isn't perfect where Lyssa will be more picky. Happy Easter!
I could never make those in a million years! What a great talent you have!
OK, soooooooooooooooooooo incredibly CUTE. I wanna learn to sew. And to sew like that would be fabu. And the girls look awesome!
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