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Made this from this mccall pattern: Mccall 6240 http://sewing.patternreview.com/Patterns/43062
I saw some metallic gold material and thought it might be good for this dress. I am probably between 0 and 2, the pattern is for size 4, so i made several modifications. I don’t know much about sizing so I was pretty much just doing it randomly. for example, I made the diagonal stretch a little tighter so I wouldn’t have to worry about exposing too much; I made the sleeves a little bit smaller and the waist tighter. But the style of the dress was good and easy overall.
Next time, I would use even more stretchy, drapey material for this pattern.
This took me (currently novice) 3 hours to complete.
Material Notes
Pattern calls for knit jerseys. I actually used partial knit jersey, partial rayon metallic material. Which is a little stretchy but not drapey enough for this dress.
Difficulty
Novice
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Dec 17, 2010, 08.58 AMby maatranut
how fast! Good job
Dec 16, 2010, 04.57 AMby beastofcotton
It looks great on you! I’m not usually a fan of the one-armed look, but you changed my mind.
Dec 16, 2010, 12.31 AMby lbeveryday
Wow! U might not be a novice sewer anymore! lol …This dress looks amazing:)
Dec 15, 2010, 09.34 PMby cantare
Gorgeous! It has such a wonderful line to follow the body.
Dec 15, 2010, 08.34 PMby cherwinamy
you look great!
Dec 15, 2010, 08.18 PMby zaarissima
wow! it is absolutly beautiful! I would like to make it too….
Dec 15, 2010, 07.41 PMby juebejue
awesome tracy! it looks great on you! :D 3 hours work time is very fast!
Dec 15, 2010, 06.38 PMby nellyvdb
Wow, I love it!
Dec 15, 2010, 06.10 PMby merbecky
This is lovely
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Dec 15, 2010, 06.26 PMby tracyx
thank you :)