Freya is putting me to shame by already having come up with a plan of action for her four dresses, including patterns and fabric. I wish I was that organised! I love her pattern choices. I'm definitely thinking of using the Burda pattern from burdastyle 02/2011 Freya is planning to use:
But Freya's pattern choices are also quite ambitious including boning, pattern adjustments and piping details and this beautiful Eclair dress from Colette patterns:
I haven't decided yet which way to go. Will I challenge myself even more by making difficult, labour-intenisve dresses or will I go the easy way? My inclination is to steer on the side of simplicity for easy to wear, simple summer dresses. But then again a dress with boning....? Sigh! How are you planning on approaching the challenge? The simple or the difficult way? Have you decided on patterns already?
I'm looking forward to seeing all your ideas, progress and finished projects. Please, blog-less Jennifer, do share some pictures with us! Maybe via flickr or photobucket? I can share links on my blog. And to anyone else who wants to join our little group: please do! Just leave me a comment.
I love the Eclair dress. I'm definitely in. I have decided on three of the patterns but I may change my mind. I also have some fabric in my stash that needs using up so I have my first dress sorted anyway. I'm planning on doing at least one that might be difficult. It's a knit, which is something I haven't ever sewn with. One of the other patterns I have made before so that should be relatively easy. I think a mix of easy and difficult is good.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to see what you are all going to make. Two of my dresses will be UFO dresses which I began without having thought them through, so I need to draft new bodices patterns for both. Hope this is whithin the rules - I am going away for 1 week in the middle of June, so I don't think I can manage 4 dresses if I don't include the two half-finished ones.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I moved blog to wordpress: http://booksandwool.wordpress.com/ and is not continuing on From the Stash.
I just posted some preliminary ideas for the June Challenge. And I have a confession to make: I plan on cheating. While one of my choices could, given the right material, serve as a summer dress, I plan to make it up in a material that would be much too warm and wear it as a kind of house coat. Will that be ok?
ReplyDeleteAnd will there be a flickr-group? Or even a temporary blog? Something like sew retro, where everyone could post or at least link to their posts?
Anyway I'll create a second blog-roll for this adventure so I won't miss anything.
Gry, I corrected the info about your blog in the post. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope I am not putting you to shame! I'm just trying to be organised as otherwise I know I just won't get round to doing it. Thank you for your comments on my dress choices, I just hope I do them justice! :-)
ReplyDeleteI have not chosen my dresses either. I'm going crazy ...lol...i have a zillion things to do and sew.
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