A dress and some beginnings

I just couldn't wrap my head up around all the ideas I used to have about my 80s dress. I never proceeded making it because it just didn't feel as the right thing for the fabric. After I made the blouse I just thought that the pattern works great with it and I cut it as a dress. I like the 60s vibe about it (80s dress with a 60s vibe. All right.).
It all sounds cool and I just cut the usual measurements (or I think I did so, I must admit I was a bit inattentive and just drafted the skirt free hand and not from the original pattern). So it is a bit tight around the hips which is not cool at all... I think the truth is I put some weight on and this is quite logical, since it is cold outside and the fridge is my best friend and my sunlight in this weather.



See. Or don't see? I mean the TV Tower is lost in the fog and mostly it is even worst. You don't get it that you are in Berlin. It could be anywhere, where fog is...

But back to the dress. I love it actually. I should stop eating so much and I will love it even more... I laid the fabric very carefully and matched the sleeves to the bodice as best as I could. Sounds complicated, but it is not. I just cut the sleeves next to the armhole openings on the flat pattern.




The neck opening is larger so I don't need the cut in the back.
I used the back side of the fabric showing this time. The colours are more intense then the satin side and in this way it is different to the blouse I already have.
Front:



Back:







I installed an invisible zipper on the side. I am getting a pro in it. I think the most crucial thing is to iron the zipper before you sew it in. I saw this in a tutorial on a blog somewhere, forgot the link though... Sorry.




I was a bit tired of sewing at the end, but wanted to finish it. So the logical consequence is that I have to redo the hem... I hate when I start bungling and mostly try just to stop before.

Another project started when I was watching a Swedish Crime series (my favourite) on TV Sunday night. I am mostly bored doing one thing at a time...




All in all I should start some winter sewing...

HomeDeco and a Muslin

I have a list of projects on my mind that is ongoing and never ending. And sometimes I just think I should take it slowly one by one and stop adding new projects before I finish the old ones...
So instead of working on the Autumn Strokes pattern (I will do that next week) I was working on the 80s dress pattern.
And I made a muslin.
I have bought the cotton I used exactly with the idea of that muslin. It can be wearable but I won't be unhappy if it doesn't work out... I mean I actually don't like that print a lot. There is something about it.
The whole thing made a real muslin evolution process. First I went for a Dolman sleeve:




Somehow it looked a bit dowdy to me. And it was pulling in weird places. So I cut the sleeves off:


Hm maybe a bit better, but somehow not... So the last thing I did was that:





Kind of like it. But I think the skirt is a bit too full - is a half circle. I will make it longer and less full for the original. I added darts at the bust. Maybe there is too much puff around the waist. I still don't feel it is right.

On the other front I've sewn the curtains. The cotton knit stretched a bit and they got all wonky but I still like them. I used a poly chiffon with a great print I've bought to make the Azalea dress but I couldn't imagine to wear that plastic polyester...




And last for Oona and to finish off her "What we drank week" I had a yeast beer from a weird bottle yesterday.



Cheers!

80s dress considerations

I am still thinking which will be the best pattern for the 80s dress (y0u can see the older variation under the link). I was thinking first dress with a square neckline ( I love square necklines...) but than I really want to show off the fabric - so something basic without too many darts that will be discontinuing the print. So this is my last consideration. What do you think?



Again the fabric so you know, what I mean.

At last something else

Remember the silk cotton fabric I bought. The one with the 80s vibe. It wouldn't just leave me alone - I was thinking a lot what kind of dress I should make out of it. So I made this sketches first:



Then I quickly drew this pattern from my block:


It is quite simple and I don't know if it works. I will make a muslin out of it in a black cotton first. I am not really a muslin person - I hate producing something I wouldn't wear so I always try to make them wearable.
The real issue of the fashion fabric is that I want this flower in the front upper part:


So cutting may be problem. I don't know anyway if I will have the time to sew that one soon...