Showing posts with label Gingham dress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gingham dress. Show all posts
Sunday, September 9, 2018
The Gingham Menorca Dress
In the first project after my travels this summer, I used the blue gingham I bought in Stoff & Stil, Goteborg.
I decided to use the same pattern I made for my Menorca dress, which I love and wear a lot in summer, but with some hackering at the back. I made the Menorca dress using the rub-off method with and old dress I made 20 years ago.
The skirt is cut in the bias and has only one seam at the centre back, where we can put a zipper. In this case, I decided to leave 10 cm open and no zipper.
The bodice pieces are cut twice to make the facings complete and conceal thus all seams, sewing the bottom interior seam closed by hand. I made an enlargement of the two back pieces to construct the knot or bow at the back.
As an afterthought, or rather as an adjustment after wearing it one day, I applied an elastic band under the bust, just on top of the imperial waist line, topstitching a line with the machine 0.6 cm over the imperial waist seam, introducing the elastic with a safety pin and securing it by hand.
Now, it is perfect.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Gingham Dress / El vestit de quadrets vichy
Gingham is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn.[1] It is made of carded, medium or fine yarns, where the colouring is on the warp yarns and always along the grain (weft). Gingham has no right or wrong side with respect to colour.
The pattern includes pockets, wich are a very practical and nice touch.
I made self enclosed seams all over the dress, and for the neck line and amrsythes I used facings that I zigzagged and secured to the dress with a blind-stitch.
I made the buttonholes with the machine, and it broke there. The cost of the reparing has helped me decide I need a new machine!
The result is very nice and confortable, it is a wonderful fabric.
El patró inclou butxaques, que resulten pràctiques i molt boniques.
Vaig decidir entornar totes les costures i polir-les amb repunts. A l'escolt i les sises vaig utilitzar vistes, que vaig sobrefilar a màquina, i les vaig cosir al vestit amb un punt invisible.
Vaig fer els traus a màquina. Fent els traus precisament, se'm va trencar la meva vella Alfa, i em sembla que he decidit comprar-me'n una de nova!
El resultat és força bo, el porto molt de gust.
Wikipedia
The inspiration was Emy Rossum /La inspiració fou l'Emmy Rossum
I was looking for a good black and white gingham and I found this at Stone Fabrics. It was not cheap, but it was 100% cotton, I cannot stand plastic fibers.
For the pattern, I used Burda Magazine. It had a similar design, and I only had to make three small alterations:
- I added some space around my bust, just where the lateral front pannel and the central piece meet.
- I closed the neckline 4 cm all around, since the design was really low cut.
- I added a neck similar to Emmy's dress, which I designed with the help of Alcrich's book, and it became perfect.
- The fourth alteration was a failure, but it is worht it recording it for future projects. I added some fabric at the waist, thinking I would need it, but then the dres is too roomy in that area. Nothing a belt can't solve, but not necessary in future projects.
The result is very nice and confortable, it is a wonderful fabric.
El cotó de quadrets vichy es una roba típicament de cotó, tot i que ara a
les botigues de roba en trobem de polièster o barrejat.
Vaig
comprar aquesta roba a Anglaterra per internet, perquè per aquí, com
sovint em passa, no era de cotó 100%. Tinc la sensació que a Catalunya
no donem importància a la composició dels teixits, un fet cabdal per mi.
Vaig utilitzar el patró d'un vestit de la revista Burda, al qual vaig fer algunes modificacions:
- Vaig afegir roba al voltant del pit, un parell de cm a cada costat, entre el costadet i la peça central. La modificació va resultar perfecta.
- Vaig fer l'escot molt menys pronunciat, ja que a la revista era un vestit molt escotat. Hi vaig afegir 4 cm tot al voltant.
- Vaig dissenyar i afegir un coll similar al que porta l'Emmy. El patró el vaig dibuixar jo mateixa seguint les instruccions al llibre de Aldrich.
- La quarta modificació va ser una errada. Vagi eixamplar la cintura del cosses i la faldilla uns 8 cm en total (4 a cada costat), i va resulta massa ample. Com que va amb cinturó no hi ha cap problema, però la propera vegada he de deixar el patró tal i com està en aquesta zona.
Vaig decidir entornar totes les costures i polir-les amb repunts. A l'escolt i les sises vaig utilitzar vistes, que vaig sobrefilar a màquina, i les vaig cosir al vestit amb un punt invisible.
Vaig fer els traus a màquina. Fent els traus precisament, se'm va trencar la meva vella Alfa, i em sembla que he decidit comprar-me'n una de nova!
El resultat és força bo, el porto molt de gust.
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