After making a wiggle dress in stretch fabric and one in wool, I've decided to make another one in silk. I finished it on sunday, but my lapped zipper was super wonky and had to be ripped out..
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| First time photographing silk, I guess you see all the wrinkles! |
Then my dog Milo wasn't feeling all too well, so I had to take him to work to get him checked out. Because of that I only changed the zipper today, but now it's ready to be blogged about!
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| At least he hasn't lost his appetite.. |
That's at least two of the perks of being a vet, you get a lot of cake and you can bring your dog when he's feeling a bit under the weather..
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My pattern adjustments, the smaller darts are the orignal ones
Since I've already made the pattern for the wiggle dress out of Gertie's new book for better sewing twice, I knew which fit alterations I had to make. I widened and lengthened both of the darts in the back. |
Because it was going to be a summery silk dress I've ditched the sleeves. I just cut a straight line from where the mark for the gusset was and voila, sleeveless dress!
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I had to make this adjustment anyway since I didn't have enough silk (it was a remnant for only 2.50 euro) to make a dress with sleeves.
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I really like the way the sleeves turned out, maybe I'll even make another top from the same pattern.
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| Again, excuse me for the wrinkles.. |
And then the back happened. There pattern calls for a lapped zipper which I hadn't tried before. My other wiggle dresses are made with invisible zippers. Since I always like to try something new I decided to add a lapped zipper. What a failure! I think things went downhill when I decided not to follow Gertie's instructions and sew the zipper first before finishing the rest of the seam. I will let you look at these horrible pictures first...
Doesn't look too bad? Wait until you see the close-up..
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| Aaargh!! |
And I even walked the dogs in this wonky-zipper-dress!
Do lapped zippers work in silk? Or is it me?
I knew I had to change it to an invisible zipper, for which I found the energy today. I had an unexpected evening free when my sister had to leave me alone in the bar with two unfinished beers, because she suddenly had to go to work (she works in a restaurant and it had became very busy all of a sudden!).
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| All alone all of a sudden |
So after finishing the beers I sewed in this zipper and I'm very happy now!
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| Much better, an invisible zipper |
Stashbusting count: 1/15
