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- 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!
7 April 2018
Corduroy Dress, or How Not to Sew New Pants
Few weeks ago, to be exact on the first Sunday of March, after a nice concert in our Musical Comedy Theatre, I didn't want to go home too soon and, of course, dropped in one of hobby stores in the centre of my city. I was in a playful mood so, after looking around the fabric department and noticing a piece of wine red corduroy, at once decided to buy 1.5 m to sew trousers of it. What can be wrong with corduroy? Thick ridges visually add some weight :-) But it can have much worse features. For example, it can pull like a magnet any fibres or, if used for making trousers, stretch on the knees. This fabric was surely of good quality so I followed my impulse and bought that piece. (I wish it was the only fabric I had purchased then but it doesn't concern the case:-))
Декілька тижнів тому, а точніше першої неділі березня, мені не дуже хотілося швидко повертатися додому після гарного концерту в нашому театрі Музичної Комедії тож, звісно, я зазирнула в одну з крамниць для рукотврниць в центрі мого міста. Я була в грайливому настрої і, озирнувшись навколо у відділі тканини та помітивши вельвет винно-червоного кольору, одразу вирішила купити півтора метри і пошити з нього штани. Що такого поганого може бути у вельветі? Товсті ребра тканини візуально можуть додавати вагу :-) Але можуть бути і набагато гірші риси. Наприклад, вельвет, як магніт, може притягувати різні волокна, або, якщо пошити з нього штани, може витягуватися на колінах. Ця тканина вже напевно була гарної якості тож я піддалася імпульсу і купила відріз. (Хотілося б що то була єдина тканина, яку я тоді купила, але це вже цієї справи не стосується:-))
Despite I liked the dress I wasn't going to sew it. At least now. But this happened. The dress has quite tight fitting in the top part and quite loose silhouette around hips, it makes the outfit comfortable enough but the fabric shouldn't be too soft to keep the shape of the skirt so corduroy is a good choice.
I lengthened the dress for about 7 cm and the sleeves were cut bias. The neck hole was shortened for 3 cm.
To hem the sleeves I cut cuffs. I got them pretty wide so if it is cold, they can be unrolled but the pile direction will be wrong then :-)
And the last detail. My zipper was very long so after cutting it I wanted to process the edge neatly.
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I love this dress! Oh the color 😍
ReplyDeleteThank you! The colour made the outfit:-)
DeleteSo lovely!
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DeleteLovely dress
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