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October 14, 2006 at 8:10 am · Filed under Sweatshop
So here it is, dress #2! It took me about 4-5 hours to do this one, spread over 3 days. I had a deadline for this one: Grammy’s first school photos were on Friday. Since it’s the same pattern as the first one, and I had gotten over my fears of messing up, I was able to breeze through this one quickly:
- Wednesday AM, before Grammy woke up: Cut out 2 of the 4 pattern pieces.
- Wednesday PM, after dinner, with Lew Lew distracting Graem: Cut out remaining pattern pieces, cut out interfacing, fused interfacing.
- Thursday AM (5AM!!): Sewed all the pieces together.
- Thursday PM: Did buttons with Grammy “helping” with the “bittons.”
Enough chatter, here are the pics:
October 9, 2006 at 7:12 am · Filed under Photos and Videos, Sweatshop
I finally finished The Dress this weekend. I think I put in about 10 hours from start to finish, which means at my billable rate, it’s a $650 dress. “Couture,” my co-workers call it. Anyway, here are the pics:
On to bigger and better, we picked out some more fabric to do the same dress, and will attempt another pattern. Not so sure about the second pattern, it’s got pleaty-ruffly things in the waistline. I still don’t know all the terminology (why anyone would want to baste a dress is beyond me), so they will remain pleaty-ruffly things.
