My next sewing project

[frualeydis]

Visby medieval week isn't for another two weeks and a couple of days, but because the people who are pulling the trailer aren't leaving from Gothenburg, but from their summer house 100 kilometres from here I packed all my stuff yesterday and today and at 1 pm today they picked it all up. This means that either things had to be finished, or I will have to bring them in my carry-on luggage when I fly there on Sunday the second of August. This was one reason for my decision not to make any new clothes for Visby. Another was that I have enough garb already and the last, and most important, was that I'm more inspired by clothes from the 1940s and 1950s now; clothes that I can wear in my mundane life. Maja also wants me to make some clothes for her - like this dress:




It was included in a packet of vintage patterns I bought from Tradera, a swedish auction site, and as soon as Maja laid eyes on it she demanded to have one. That was ca 2 years ago, but finally I found some of the striped fabric from my father (the same as in the pink "candy dress"). As a bonus she has grown so much that I don't have to resize the pattern.

On Monday I will go downtown to get 9 metres of red bias tape and two large red buttons.

Comments

[jenthompson.livejournal.com]

That is adorable! I love all these vintage wrap dresses. They look so easy to make, and are so cute to wear!

[jehanearbonne.livejournal.com]

Ohh, wicked pretty. I wanted one of those super-wide short dresses so badly when I was little. But no. I got practical clothes. Curse you, 70s!

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

Cute!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I had lots of short dresse, but of course non of these, since they were very old-fashioned and it would have looked like you had dressed your child up in costume in the day.

/Eva