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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!
11 June 2017
Rayon Dress, or If It's Worth Following Intuition
If one of my previous projects was inspired by stubbornness, this one - is the product of following the intuition... and I am not sure if the border between those sources of inspiration is definite enough :-)
Якщо один з моїх попередніх проектів з'явився на світ завдяки впертості, то цей - результат слідування інтуїції.... і я не впевнена, чи існує визначена межа між цими двома джерелами натхнення :-)
So I managed to make the dress from 1.80 m of the fabric. I just cut the back part of the sleeve and cut it separately. That's all. Then before sewing the dress I stitched the details and go on processing as with the single detail. As the fabric pattern is quite pied and dense, the seam is not seen on the ready item but saving of the material is great indeed.
The dress is made by the pattern 104 from Burda 12/2013. The fabric is stretch blend of viscose (rayon) and p/e.
This time the sewing was not very smoothly. The dress needed extra fitting because it turned out to be very loose. I did those changes only after the dress was almost ready but it is easier to explain on the paper pattern. So, all the side lines should be decreased along the waist at least for 1.5 cm. If you like it tight, you can enlarge the number.
The main crash was the centre back. After sewing a zipper, the dress got a wavy silhouette good for a camel's cape. I picked the zipper out, cut the extra fabric and sewed the centre back seam without a zipper and it didn't influence the comfort of putting the dress on at all. That's why I recommend not to make it too tight at the waist: you can't omit a zipper then.
To top stitch the front pleat the special presser foot can be used. To tell the true, I used it only once when, after buying the sewing machine, tasted all the pressers they added to it. And from that my experience it was obvious that without a certain skill it wouldn't be too simple. But it is not so hard as well. As for me, the main idea is to fix the presser foot as securely as possible in order the ruler (that hook) not to wobble and the fabric not to glide.
As the back consists of two parts and was cut right from the angle, it wasn't needed to reinforce it with interfacing. The front must be, the extra interfacing can be cut later.
When sewing a shoulder seam, the cut on the front facing was made.
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