Burda Style For people who sew

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  Jan 19, 2010, 11.54 AMby lilybart

  Cute! I’ve never made anything out of gingham before and I’ve never really thought about lining up the checks! I’ve ordered heaps of it online and now I’m a bit stressed out about lining it up! I wouldn’t worry about it too much, no one else will notice but you.
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  Dec 20, 2009, 08.31 PMby petitmoutonbleu

  totally squared!! love it!
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  Dec 9, 2009, 05.45 AMby tasallison

  wow this so pretty…i’d like to have something like this to liven up my winter wardrobe…so very chic.
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  Dec 4, 2009, 01.44 PMby littlelupin

  i wish i had this pattern! it would look great on my after-pregnancy body. did you make the pattern yourself or did you buy it somewhere?
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  Nov 23, 2009, 10.28 PMby susanne2011

  Hi guys! Thanks for the nice comments and tips on how to aline checkered fabric. I guess it is just a trial and error thing. I started off trying to lay out the pattern pieces on the fabric so that all the waistline seams would start on the same ‘colour row’ of the checkered fabric. So far so good. Then I made the pleats and darts and nothing matched anymore…aargghhh. So I guess next time I should cut one pattern piece at a time and try to line up the next pattern piece to cut with the one I already cut and made pleats it. Does that make sense? Maybe it is time to do a sewing course….
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  Nov 23, 2009, 01.50 AMby pixelink

  this is rockin’, great work.
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  Nov 22, 2009, 11.44 PMby freakusbzzz

  You’ve done a brilliant job with the colar.
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  Nov 22, 2009, 10.14 PMby emilykate

  REEEEEEEEEEEALLY cute! I love gingham and the shape of the dress is really peppy :o)
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  Nov 22, 2009, 09.41 PMby jd98

  it’s a lovely dress! dschudie is right: pin, pin, pin! the more you work with plaids/checks the better and faster you’ll get.
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  Nov 22, 2009, 08.27 PMby sewenggirl88

  Love it, I’m a sucker for checks and plaids!
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  Nov 22, 2009, 06.57 PMby dschudie

  such a lovely garnment! i can´t see any mistakes as well. i think you made a really good job. and there are no special tips for checked fabrics… best you pin every horizontal line (rapport) and then sew. at the darts the same procedure, but pay attention the lines matches in another angle. sometimes you have to move the end point of the dart a little to get them matching neat. all in all pin pin pin… its a little bit more work, but a thankful.
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  Nov 22, 2009, 06.48 PMby almatinka

  I love the dress – the cut of the whole dress and the neckline look so beautiful! As for the checks… I am just a beginner myself, so unfortunately I don’t know from my own experience. I read that for checks and plaids it’s best to choose fabric with as few darts and other fabric manipulation as possible, which to me seems a sound advice, but one still has to figure out how to deal with those few! ;-) Sorry that I can’t help you, but I LOVE what you did with that dress – with or without mistakes (which, BTW, I cannot really see)! :-)
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  Nov 22, 2009, 06.30 PMby fabricaddict

  I love it – it looks so good! and you really don’t notice any of the checks not matching up – it’s stunning!
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  Nov 22, 2009, 03.35 PMby zickzack

  Looks very good! : ) To find the little mistakes you probably need to know where they are..
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  Nov 22, 2009, 02.57 PMby frkbustad

  A really nice dress! I love the cut, and it goes so well with the checks! I really love the collar as well, laid-back and extremely feminine at the same time. I do not have any good tips on sewing with checks though, as I’ve never dared myself… This piece of work is nevertheless very inspiring!