McCall's 7892 and Butterick 6873

I'm on a good sewing streak, Yeah! I did make the Butterick pattern before,
but I just used the skirt for this dress.

The fabric is from SR Harris in Burnsville MN and it was on the cheap table.

I'm wearing a slip dress underneath, I thought that the overlap may not be enough, but no problem! Next time I won't wear it since it shows at the bottom.

Simplicity 9678

Another pattern that I really like and fits so good right out of the envelope.
This lovely challis is from one of the great garage sales from the Textile Center in Minneapolis/St. Paul. You get to choose a whole bag of fabric for ten dollars. I have the fabric on the cover of the pattern envelope, but I wanted to use the essentially free fabric first to test.

 

McCall's 7991

No, we do not have any snow so far this winter, this is from last year. This posting has been sitting around for a year.

This is one of my favorite patterns, McCall's 7991.

This dress is made from stretch velvet. I used the fabric for the cuffs instead of ribbing
 like the last time.

I did want to wear this today, but couldn't find it, so I'm wearing another self-made velvet dress!

 

McCall's 8338

I do like this pattern and I will probably make it again, but use the Peter Pan collar version next time.
I don't like skimpy little ties.

Love the fabric as well, an embroidered denim. A little fancy and down to earth also.

 

McCall's 8090

Another summer dress, that is, alas, packed away. For this I had to use this lace doily. I did make a mess of it, I should have just sewed it on top of the fabric, but in the long run, it did turn out.

Good dress for hot weather!

 

Burda 6473

Just a few pics from the summer. This is Burda 6473, I used an old skirt for the top and fabric from the stash for the skirt. I made the sleeve ruffle larger and added a bottom ruffle.
I'm in my brother's garden, he defiantly has the green thumb.

 

McCall's 8035

I choose this dress to sew because it looked so easy and it was, but the fabric was so terribly stretchy that it made sewing difficult, had to cut the fabric after the fact.

But other than that it came together easily. It is kind of an odd looking dress, but I like it and will sew the pattern again, but probably without the peplum.

Ta-da!

Butterick 6889

I have been sewing because it has been such a long, long, everlasting winter. But I haven't been blogging because my camera broke, my computer broke and my editing program is no longer available. We did go to Mexico for a week, but when I got back, did my mammogram and now I need surgery. Yikes! In the end all will be fine! Do you ever wonder about people you follow and all the sudden they are gone? I do, but hopefully they are just busy with life.

I did have this original pattern in my stash from my from my friends grandma who got us interested in sewing when we were eleven years old. I got the new pattern because I needed a bigger size.

It took awhile to sew for some reason. I added elastic at the waist just because I knew that would be needed to look need. Like the dress and like the pattern.

 

Butterick 5546

This is some of my favorite corduroy that I purchased at the old Hancock Fabrics. I was nervous to use it on a new pattern, but it worked out good.

I just added to the under bust area and I made the skirt wider so it has gathers instead of a smooth finish. I can't handle clothing that is too tight.

I've been sewing a lot, because it's so horrible outside. In Minnesota we have much more snow than normal and now we have ice too (but not on the roads, we do street snow removal well).
Can't complain too much, it's bad almost everywhere.

 

End of Summer Round-up, Two

This is Simplicity 3993, a vintage pattern sourced online.
I love the simplicity and clean lines of this pattern.

The sleeves were a bit tricky, because it was hard to make the openings larger. For the skirt, it's basically a square and I just placed the pleats where I thought they should go.

Dress number two is New Look 6654, this dress looks exactly as advertised on the envelope.

It's a little snug in the bust, since this doesn't usually happen, I didn't make any alterations.

                                And it's too short for me, but I do like this dress, picnic anyone?

 

I really love this dress and consider it a success.

How great is it when two fabrics come together perfectly?

I purchased the 18W sized pattern instead of the normal size 16, I thought it would be better since it was a wrap dress. It wasn't too large in the top, but the top wrap was at least one inch too long. Since I had sewed everything up and I needed it to fit I took a large pleat by the waist and no one is the wiser.

The next dress is made from all my old Mexican dresses that did not fit anymore.
I used the two patterns above.

I had used the Simplicity 9325 before and it was a bad fit.
I raised up the center insert and shortened the shoulders for a much better fit. Time to turn in, too many spelling mistakes, thanks spell check.

End of Summer Round-up

Here is part one for the end of summer sewing round-up.
I ended up really liking most of these dresses except the McCall's pattern with the tie in the front.

 

My sweet and sassy kitten of nineteen years died on October 11th.

Purro was my soul cat and will be always missed. 

I've had this pattern forever and finally got to it. I changed the skirt to gathered because the material was thin and I didn't want to line it. I did wear a slip underneath.

Really nice fitting, just did my normal adjustments.

I had used this pattern before so I knew what to expect.
I let the fabric do the talking when it came to the layout of the print. 

Fabric from SR Harris cheapy table.

Another old pattern of mine, so old that it went up to size 14 only (I use 16 now).

Made the pattern a little larger and added a zipper and all is good.

I was hesitating sewing this because Gertie patterns seem to run smaller, especially in the arms. I had looked online for other examples of this sewn up. They were cute, but almost looked too open in the chest area. I made the tieback straps longer so adjustments could be made.

This is the looser in the bunch. My fabric was flawed, but I didn't notice it when I got it in the mail, then there is just way too much fabric in the top and I also had to wear another top underneath to
 keep things looking somewhat decent. This would have been a better outfit for me when
I was young and skinny! Oh well, fun to try!