I stumbled across
Craftsy this summer and now I'm totally hooked. Craftsy is a site for online crafting courses. They have everything from cooking classes to sewing and everything in between.
I took the
50's Bombshell Dress class by Gretchen Hirsch from
Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing and it changed how I sew forever. The class is set up into sections with videos for each part of the sewing process. She explains everything very succinctly and the camera is always at a good angle so you can see what's happening.
The class starts with making a muslin, fitting it to your body, and altering the pattern. I have to say, I would not normally be able to wear a dress of this type off the rack, vintage or new. I'm too straight, not a lot of curves happening here. This class showed me I could make a sweet vintage style dress that fits like a glove!
Some pics of my progress....
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| Completed bodice outside |
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| All the hidden goodies |
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| Lots of couture hand-stitched details on the inside |
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| Pretty perfectly hidden lapped zipper |
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| Spiral steel boning for the bodice |
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| Steel boning offers lots of support as well as flexibility |
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| Boning casing in the liner (I see some corset-making in my future!) | | |
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| Finished interior: vintage style pinked seam allowances, pink ribbon waist stay, hand-stitched in liner with spiral steel boning, grosgrain ribbon zipper guard. Love all this and no one will ever see it :) |
2 comments:
s-t-u-n-n-i-n-g. I love the fabric you've picked, it really plays to the 1950's style dresses that I'm pretty sure inspired this pattern! Not only that, the dress really suits you. You look fabulous! I hope you get a lot of wear out of it ;)
Thank you so much!! It really was so fun to make. I love all those little nitpicky details :)
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