I admit it, I am a sucker and fell for this amazing dress (Butterick 4790). First of all, it's one piece- you literally poke your head into a hole in the middle, kind of like a poncho. The front wraps around the back, and the back wraps around the front. A couple of buttons later and viola! you are dressed. Plus, just look at it: wispy thin waist, big poofy skirt, looks cute with gloves. I want a dress that looks cute with gloves!
I bought the fabric, bought the pattern, and then read the blog after blog after blog on the internet riddled with thumbs-down reviews and frustration. Some didn't even bother finishing and salvaged the material instead. Surely this cute find couldn't be as bad as that?
I started to alter the pattern for my nothing-like-the-model-in-the-picture body. I started to sew. I started to discover those blogs were very, very right. It was every bit as frustrating and every bit as wrong. It was even worse than my last sewing disaster.
I am determined to learn something by it, though. I have been hacking away at it for several days now and I think I finally figured it out what to do to fix it all. Everything is carefully basted into place and it's my goal to have it finished by Friday. Oh, don't worry. You will get to see it completed!
3 comments:
That's so weird. It looks like it'd be so easy *I* could do it! And I don't sew! It's really too bad, too, 'cause it's really cute and I'm a sucker for that '50s flouncy look.
Crap. I have that pattern and was hoping to make it this summer....
Can't wait to see it!
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