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leaf + acorn tie front dress
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This dress is styled after a quite famous Mociun dress that I couldn’t afford but wanted to wear to a wedding. Instead I made this similar one with fabric from, you guessed it, IKEA! I need to relax on their fabrics.
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Cotton, thread, hook and eye
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Apr 28, 2010, 06.04 PMby dlb323
Beautiful! I love IKEA fabrics too!
Apr 26, 2010, 10.51 AMby revue
How inspiring! Good for you, grainline, you productive rabbit! The fabric is really, really lovely too. Go IKEA!
Feb 20, 2010, 09.20 PMby emilie6709
Very very cute and it looks great on you!
Feb 20, 2010, 08.32 PMby marinaglory
This style is so cute- the tie is perfect! I love IKEA fabrics, I have a stash of canvas-y fabric in my room patiently waiting to be transformed into bags (who knows when that will happen haha)
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Feb 20, 2010, 08.54 PMby grainline
Oh, I’ve never seen canvas-y ones at my IKEA! The bags sound wonderful.
Feb 20, 2010, 05.21 PMby grainline
Thanks everyone!
Feb 20, 2010, 01.10 PMby almatinka
Very cute dress and you didn’t have to spend a fortune on it! That’s one of the reasons I am glad I started sewing! :-) Love the fabric choice too!
Feb 20, 2010, 05.52 AMby lilybart
How gorgeous! hehe I have also semi-knocked off that Mociun dress. Love the fabric!
Feb 20, 2010, 05.13 AMby Natalia *
Really cute dress, and there is nothing wrong with Ikea fabrics. They’re fantastic. Just wondering how you got such a perfectly straight (and narrow) seam on the armholes -did you use a particular presser foot? I can never get my hemlines straight, so Im just curious -perhaps all it is, is practice.
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Feb 20, 2010, 05.29 PMby grainline
Oh, I totally love IKEA fabrics, but I’m at a weird point where people are asking me, “is that fabric from IKEA also?” so it’s time for a break for me.
As for the seams, the stitching line closest to the armhole is where I understitched the seam allowance to the bias strip facing, and the seam further in is just topstitching along the edge of the bias strip. No special foot used, I just used the 1/4" foot for my machine, but I started sewing 16 years ago and have a fashion design degree, so it’ll come with practice, don’t worry! If you have questions though, maybe I can help.
Feb 20, 2010, 02.36 AMby Britynn D
wow this is beautiful!
Feb 20, 2010, 02.17 AMby Jasmine Iris Philbrick
i absolutely love this, it is wonderful.
Feb 20, 2010, 12.19 AMby aibby
Nice dress Did you make the pattern yourself? I love Ikea fabrics too, they are great.
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Feb 20, 2010, 05.22 PMby grainline
I did make the pattern myself, but not the design.