Burda Style For people who sew
Description
My first dress was made out of a vintage English bedsheet that I’d been using as a make-shift draft stopper. The centre of the bedsheet was all worn and faded so I used the four corners for my pattern pieces and made a chevron effect. The pattern I used was vintage Simplicity 7683 which I got for $4 from allsfairyvintage on Etsy. I used hand-me down polyester thread and needles from an old sewing kit and sewed the whole dress by hand. It took me about a week. I used a vintage covered button kit for the front placket.
Making this dress was a labour of love that and I proved to myself that I really wanted to sew my own clothes and this sewing this wasn’t just a passing phase. So I saved up and bought a sewing machine and have never looked back since.
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Material Notes
Vintage cotton bedsheet
Vintage covered button kit
Simplicity 7683
Difficulty
Novice
Categories
Credits
- VIntage pattern from allsfairyvintage
- Covered buttons from BabylonSisters
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Feb 10, 2012, 08.40 AMby buddingnaturalist
Yea it was bit slow but unlike machine sewing you can actually have conversations while doing it so it was quite agreeable… =)
Feb 7, 2012, 10.52 AMby Rikamekko
You did hand all stitch?Great!The fabric is fabulous,too!