Розумна, гарна та вправна :-) Useful fun for needleworkers / Корисні розваги для рукотворниць
About Me
- Oksana Starzhynska
- My blog's main subjects are sewing, the thing in which I am experienced the most, and beadwork, which is, in fact, pushed me into blogging. I am also engaged in knitting and crocheting. All together they are the set of skills which I use to make my wardrobe my whole life. These are not my only interests, I also like the English language (that's one of the reasons that my blog is bilingual), try to travel around my country and abroad (when can afford it), am interested in art (to the degree of a dilettante but nevertheless) and adore the people who can create anything beautiful or useful whatever it is :-) So welcome to a needlecrafter diary!
3 May 2017
Knitwear Dress, or Sweet Sadness
It happens not often... may be even never, at least right now I cannot remember some other example of such a case, but this project was inspired by a piece of music and the nice chat about it with my G+ friend +Blanca Garcia. When I heard that composition, In the Mood for Love, it made me think not only about the sentiment. The feeling born with the melody I defined as "sweet sadness" and tried to imagine how it would look like if being painted... I used to read about such experience of famous composers and, especially, children, but never related it to myself. At that moment I tried to fancy that. I imagined wavy entwining around each other lines that are stretching on the move far long and on their infinite way create patterns of odd leaves and flowers, which burst in blossoming time and again. The lines are grey for sadness and purple for mystery of the feeling and those flowers are surely red for passion...
Я спеціально не шукала цієї тканини, але щойно я її побачила, її візерунок нагадав мені безперервний потік тієї сумної і солодкої мелодії... Я подумала, якщо я не такий великий митець, щоб вигадувати власні орнаменти, то чому б не скористатися надбанням творчості інших людей та не пошити щось з цієї матерії, щоб оживляти враження від тієї музики щоразу, коли вдягаєш вбрання?
The pattern is very simple. I'd rather say it is primitive but it is exactly what the fabric requires. It is model #5 from Diana Moden 10/2013 (Ukrainian edition). The distinctive feature of my variant is the fact that I only had 1.20 m of the fabric and it turned out to be enough. If suddenly the one who doesn't sew reads the post, just trust it me it is the insolence for a tailor to sew the dress from this amount of fabric but I'd call it "overwhelming confidence in own skills":-)) No secrets, there was 1.20 m x 160 cm.
The pattern is very loose, it is not bad but to add at least slight fitting I made waist darts on the front part.
The sleeve was made 7/8 not only because of the lack of the fabric but because the bracelet was planned to wear. 7/8 means that the length of the sleeve must be divided into 8 and then shorten for the got number. (If you want the length 3/4, it means the length must be divided into 4 and then shortened for 1/4).
The neck hole is processed with the facing. The front one was cut with a seam on the centre because I was short of the fabric.
I also made a thin belt. I am not proud of the number of the pieces it is made of so I won't tell how many they are. Thanking to the print nobody can count the seams anyway:-)
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