Will be uploading pics of the Mirror Dots Dress soon!
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I didn’t sew this together, but I did design it!
It’s a rotary telephone dress and the shoulder is padded soft foam to look like a receiver and the skirt gets its fullness from a crinoline.
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Yay I’m very excited for you! Please share your creations when you’re finished!
Your ensemble sounds gorgeous! Please share!
Love your stuff. Sew on!
I used a chunky alpaca yarn, can’t recall the name, but I think it was $11-2/skein as opposed to …
Julietta- I only started knitting in earnest about 2 years ago! Before then I was a sewer. There …
FYI to both of you: this book also had other really cute designs that seemed fairly easy- i think…
The pattern called for the ruffles being baby hemmed.
Burda has a good tutorial for that:http://w…
These buttons are pretty thick. I think he makes one-offs so these are all different sizes. Which…
I cut 1’’ pieces of rectangular fabric on the cross grain out and coverstitched it to the neckline.
I love Klimt too! And Thank you both of you!
Unfortunately we used school-provided blocks for this project.
It was expensive!
Otis college of art and design in Los Angeles.
I work from home, which means there is always the danger of living in sweats. So I try to make an effort to dress nicely everyday, but that was circumvented by the fact that now my clothes were get…
I personally find silk chiffon a challenge too-the cutting is a b*tch since to do it properly you…
Merci beaucoup!
That’s sweet! And by all means, please do! It’s not like I invented this color combo, haha. I’m r…
Don’t be afraid of the lining! It’s such an easy skirt, it took one weekend day and it’s so worth…
Oh, and the other thing about Twinkle knits is that due to its nature of being chunky knits, it w…
I think it would be easier just to print out the smaller size pattern. I did end up between sizes…
Hi there!
The fabric I used for this skirt and dress is called Mirror Ball Dot by Michael Miller…
It looks very slim-fitting on, it covers my butt entirely. My only complaint is that the Tinkle y…
As featured on Burda Style
From Twinkle’s “Town and Country Knits”- an amazingly warm cardi with a long slim fit.
I chose to forgo the Twinkle buttons, and used handmade Red Oak buttons from etsy instead.
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