After not being Eenvoudige Trouwjurken able to procure last minute tickets to Paris to watch Marie Antoinette (apparently, turning up at Waterloo Eurostar terminal is not such a good idea.), today I decided was going to be DIY dress day. I have so many ideas but with zero sewing skills to back them up. However, I know I wanted to make a simple Miu Miu-esque babydoll dress and thank god, this season's easy breezy shapes are a sewing-retard's dream.
So, I got my mother's old silk skirt which is too long to wear as a skirt and too teensy at the waist for me and chopped off about 9 inches off if. Then I got a lace placemat that I had tea stained a few weeks ago and cut off the crochet trim and used that to hem the skirt. With the placemat material, I cut it in half and then hemmed the vertical edges and then kind of made some wide pleats at each end and sewed it down to secure the pleat - at this point, I was really making it up as I was going along. (Real seamstresses and designers will probably be appalled by all these slap-dash methods.). Finally, I sewed the sleeves on the waist of the skirt and added some grosgrain around the bust. This took about 2 hours which is pretty fast for me (usually my time ratio of "getting sewing machine to work:actual sewing" is about 20:1)
After not being able to procure last minute tickets to Paris to watch Marie Antoinette (apparently, turning up at Waterloo Eurostar terminal is not such Avondjurken 2013 a good idea.), today I decided was going to be DIY dress day. I have so many ideas but with zero sewing skills to back them up. However, I know I wanted Cocktailjurken to make a simple Miu Miu-esque babydoll dress and thank god, this season's easy breezy shapes are a sewing-retard's dream.
So, I got my mother's old silk skirt which is too long to wear as a skirt and too teensy at the waist for me and chopped off about 9 inches off if. Then I got a lace placemat that I had tea stained a few weeks ago and cut off the crochet trim and used that to hem the skirt. With the placemat material, I cut it in half and then hemmed the vertical edges and then kind of made some wide pleats at each end and sewed it down to secure the pleat - at this point, I was really making it up as I was going along. (Real seamstresses and designers will probably be appalled by all these slap-dash methods.). Finally, I sewed the sleeves on the waist of the skirt and added some grosgrain around the bust. This took about 2 hours which is pretty fast for me (usually my time ratio of "getting sewing machine to work:actual sewing" is about 20:1)
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