Making Life more Beautiful
Last week I hosted another Cling Film Party in my basement flat. Powered by wine, chocolate, Nick’s lasagne and scintillating conversation Georgia and Jane made bodice patterns. Ably abetted by Megan, I hope they produced good quality bodice blocks. We … Continued
This project was set as a challenge by Marianna, as she was selecting a wedding dress design for herself (after 25 years together!), and challenge it was. Certainly for me. But the thing about doing something challenging is that you … Continued
This Six Napoleon dress was supposed to be completed and photographed yesterday. But it wasn’t. I am only a few hours away from finishing so I will give you an update on my progress. Pattern This was a difficult pattern … Continued
The original inspiration for this dress is black, and grey, and somewhat grungy. It is dark and dramatic. I wanted mine to be a summer dress, not evening wear. I decided to make it white rather than black, but realised … Continued
With a growing group of international pattern drafters and dress makers, orchestrated by Sew2Pro, I have been trying to recreate a complicated asymmetric dress. Known as Six Napoleon, it is designed by Japanese-Austrailian designer Dogstar. I made a reasonable fist of … Continued
Following our recent adventures with plastic food wrap I wanted to test the outcome. My fitting buddy Pia suggested I draw round the pattern, including the darts, and then make a fabric toile. She also advised a CF zip so … Continued
Since drafting and testing the pattern I made what I hoped would be a wearable toile. I used some purple cotton with appliqued, embroidered flowers on it. The motifs remind me of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. And here I am wearing … Continued
Right at the beginning of our course we were asked to draft an easy fitting dress block. If you have already drafted a dress block, making it looser and easier to wear is very easy. You basically reduce the bust … Continued
Introduction Recently I wrote about putting together and making a casual wardrobe. I decided to take up Joyce’s exciting challenge of creating a capsule collection that would be inspired by, and suit, my “Lakeside Lifestyle”. I was very interested in, and … Continued
It started with a blog post from Marianna about her Mummification, in which my friend got her new husband to wrap her torso in plastic food wrap. Nice. I was intrigued! I had heard of people making “duct tape dummies” … Continued
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