I bought this dress pattern a while ago.
And I finished the dress also a while ago too. The problem is that I hate making button holes. I don’t have an automatic buttonhole on my sewing machine. Well I finely came up with a solution. Sew the buttons on the front and use snaps to keep the dress close.
It came out pretty good. What do you think?
(The lump is the pocket)
Cute style and good length!
I think you did a great job, that’s what I think!
Hah you have exactly the same problem/solution as me 🙂
Very nice dress too.
Sweet! love the shoes.
I think it’s gorgeous, is what I think!
Adorable! It looks even better than the pattern picture.
Cute! Perfect fabric and style for summer.
I had an old White that didn’t have a button-hole feature and I did the snap thing for years and years and years. Snaps really are a life-saver, aren’t they?
I like your interpretation of the pattern. Looks very summery!
Julie
I love the shoes! A girl after my own heart! Why do it the hard way when there is an easier one!
Looks great, I liked your idea for the button holes.
By the way those shoes look great with that dress.
I just pick up a bunch of these Hollywood Patterns. Did you find them easy to sew?
Looks great by the way.
I love it! Seeing yours made me revisit a Hollywood pattern very like yours that I’d crumpled up in frustration (the dress, not the pattern). I also used snaps and hook and eyes rather than buttons – makes it lay nice and flat – although next time I may supplement with bound button holes. I have a deathly fear of my buttonhole attachment but make a decent large bound buttonhole by hand.
I sew on an old Singer and for years avoided patterns with buttons, or used alternative means, because I had a fear of the old buttonhole attachment. Then one day, spurred on by peptalks from women on vintage machine sites, I gave the buttonholer a try. It was easy, fun to watch, and made buttonholes just as great looking as the ones made by mom’s fancy computerized machine. It takes a bit more practice to get everything lined up, but it works like I charm and I can’t believe now all the time I wasted. I have two shirt dressed in my current queue of projects!
I guess like everything else when you sew, its just one step at a time.
I too had a fear of buttonholes until I tried them, and like Anonymous, was fasinated by how quick and easy they were.
Very cute. I’m a big fan of wrap dresses.
Love it!
It’s gorgeous! Reminds me of my grandmother’s dresses.
Love the dress AND the shoes!