Burda Style For people who sew
Description
I loved this dress when saw it in the Burda mag and made it almost immediately so I’ve had it for quite a while now.
As it looked just about perfect to me in the magazine I did more or less a straight copy of it but just used stretch fabrics so I didn’t need to bother with a zip and put lace for the lining. It’s silk jersey for the dress.
It’s just unfortunate that it rarely feels warm enough to wear it in England.
There is a hell of a lot of ease to the pattern like a lot (but, frustratingly, not all) Burda patterns so I really should have measured the pattern pieces to my body and made it smaller – it’s a lesson I keep telling myself I need to learn – but rarely do, though I am getting better recently.
I think it’d work really well for wearing to a wedding.
Material Notes
Silk jersey
Stretch lace
Difficulty
Intermediate
Categories
- Season
- Summer
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Dress
- Style
- Evening Wear, Vintage
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Apr 22, 2013, 08.28 AMby AmnaKhalfan
Nice :) smart move to use silk jersey (y) hhhhh this is a creative laziness.
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Apr 22, 2013, 07.39 PMby sewingfan1
:-)
Apr 21, 2013, 03.16 PMby nouvellegamine
beautiful! I love it. That was a great idea to make it out of silk jersey :D
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Apr 21, 2013, 07.15 PMby sewingfan1
haha, and extra lazy – I couldn’t be bothered to put a zip in :-) Thanks for the comments.