French knickers-a.k.a.tap-pants, petti-pants…. whatever you call them I love them, wear them and keep making more. These are my most recent efforts: As a rule I draft my own patterns and while doing these it occurred to me that there is no reason anyone else couldn’t do it too, to their own measurements. It’s a simple skirt block [...]
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I drafted the perfect gardening dress today using Colette Pattern’s Sorbetto as my starting block. I deleted the centre front pleat and lengthened the top by about 14 inches, taking into account my hip measurements and adding width to the pattern accordingly. I also lowered the front neckline about an inch. I made a wearable muslin first [...]
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Not the most exciting skirt in the world but hopefully the beginnings of lots of variations on a theme! It took me a while to fully understand how to create an accurate skirt pattern but now I think I have mastered it! I have documented how to do it on my blog. It’s probably old [...]
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My daughter was invited to a ‘Scooby Doo’ party and she wanted to go as Daphne! To be honest, I’m glad she didn’t want to be Scooby! I used a long sleeve T-shirt pattern from an old Burda Style Magazine, issue 10/2010, making a few adjustments: I changed the button placket to a v-neck, I [...]
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Hello again! Thank you all for the very warm welcome. I’ve been working on a bit of a “wearable muslin” for the bodice of a dress pattern I picked up a while ago. I’m using up remnants from one of my circle skirts, and if the bodice turns out properly I plan on [...]
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Hi all! I have been working on the perfect 1940s-inspired casual blouse pattern for quite a while, and I think I’ve cracked it. Strong shoulders, convertible collar, and short wide sleeves that you can roll up easily–perfect. I even found a way to get the yoke to act as a sort of dummy [...]
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I draped this dress based off of a Peggy Wood sarong spotted here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/93234828/r-e-s-e-r-v-e-d-vintage-1950s-rare-peggy The bodice is nearly identical except that I omitted the shirring on the back as I had bad luck with the elastic on my last attempt. Next time I think I will try it with the border print and a sarong [...]
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A while ago I wrote about the blouses I wanted to make using one basic pattern. This is the 4th blouse I made out of it. Because I don’t have any skirts to match the blouse I decided to sew a skirt as well. I changed quite a lot about the basic blouse pattern. I [...]
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I don’t grade patterns as a general rule. If I can just add a bit to the side or take in a bit at a center I won’t mess with it much. That being said I really love this pattern. Love. Unfortunately it’s a size small and it’s yoked so I have no idea how [...]
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Hi all, I thought I would show you how a little project I was given by a friend turned out… 1940s button front swing trousers copied from an old pair (not sure how original they were !) but made up in corderoy, not my favorite fabric, but she was so pleased with them she wants a [...]
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