You may, or may not, have noticed my absence in the past few months. I've been a terrible blogger. I actually made so many things just before the holidays, so it wasn't a hiatus from crafting, just from blogging about it. The problem, I've found, is taking decent photos of the finished objects, I kind of forget to do it, or there's never a good time, I have even written a few posts that I never published because I never took the photos.
Which brings us to today. I will apologise now for the terrible photos included in this post, but I really wanted to get back into blogging and I am home alone this weekend. I am not really photogenic as it is, and have a terrible tendency to blink or make weird facial expressions just as the camera goes, and having to take the photos myself certainly doesn't help. Especially because there's no one there to make me smile like a normal person. But fuck it, here we go.
I call this the "back to 'school' dress", even though technically I should have called it the "back to work" dress, but it doesn't really have the same ring to it, does it? Anyway, as some of you know, in 2014 I decided to take a career break and go back to school/university for a year, which was followed by months of freelancing (aka working in my pyjamas on my sofa). However, tomorrow I am starting a new job, in a real office, interacting with real people. Which is freaking me out! So to deal with it, I decided I needed a new dress.
This is the Lilou dress from Love at First Stitch, and I stole the idea from another blogger. I wouldn't have normally picked to make a plain, denim dress, but I thought it might be a fun blank canvas to wear with interesting tops, rather than just make another denim skirt. I even bought the exact same fabric, mainly because I wanted to make sure that it wouldn't be too thick to wear as a dress.
New skill alert: I lined the bodice of this dress, using the rabbit fabric that was leftover from my circle skirt. That turned out to be pretty straightforward (and a nicer finish I think than facings), although having to turn it inside out was a bit of a pain in the ass, potentially because of the thickness of the fabric.
I am fairly happy with it overall. The back is a little gapey, as usual with Tilly's patterns on me, so perhaps next time I will try and modify the bodice slightly to get a better fit. Also, there are a few lumps and bumps in the bodice where the lining and main fabric don't quite line up, but I don't think it is that obvious, and I'm sure that gets better with practice.
I am also sticking to the metal zip, which is significantly easier for me to install than any of the other zips, I have not idea why I find zips so hard!
The top underneath is also a new make by the way. I bought a ton of stuff during the Girl Charlee fabric sale, including this cute number. The pattern is from Gertie Sews Vintage Casual, modified to have slightly puffy sleeves.
Anyway, wish me luck! And I promise to write up at least some of my recent makes soon...
Which brings us to today. I will apologise now for the terrible photos included in this post, but I really wanted to get back into blogging and I am home alone this weekend. I am not really photogenic as it is, and have a terrible tendency to blink or make weird facial expressions just as the camera goes, and having to take the photos myself certainly doesn't help. Especially because there's no one there to make me smile like a normal person. But fuck it, here we go.
I call this the "back to 'school' dress", even though technically I should have called it the "back to work" dress, but it doesn't really have the same ring to it, does it? Anyway, as some of you know, in 2014 I decided to take a career break and go back to school/university for a year, which was followed by months of freelancing (aka working in my pyjamas on my sofa). However, tomorrow I am starting a new job, in a real office, interacting with real people. Which is freaking me out! So to deal with it, I decided I needed a new dress.
This is the Lilou dress from Love at First Stitch, and I stole the idea from another blogger. I wouldn't have normally picked to make a plain, denim dress, but I thought it might be a fun blank canvas to wear with interesting tops, rather than just make another denim skirt. I even bought the exact same fabric, mainly because I wanted to make sure that it wouldn't be too thick to wear as a dress.
New skill alert: I lined the bodice of this dress, using the rabbit fabric that was leftover from my circle skirt. That turned out to be pretty straightforward (and a nicer finish I think than facings), although having to turn it inside out was a bit of a pain in the ass, potentially because of the thickness of the fabric.
I am fairly happy with it overall. The back is a little gapey, as usual with Tilly's patterns on me, so perhaps next time I will try and modify the bodice slightly to get a better fit. Also, there are a few lumps and bumps in the bodice where the lining and main fabric don't quite line up, but I don't think it is that obvious, and I'm sure that gets better with practice.
I am also sticking to the metal zip, which is significantly easier for me to install than any of the other zips, I have not idea why I find zips so hard!
The top underneath is also a new make by the way. I bought a ton of stuff during the Girl Charlee fabric sale, including this cute number. The pattern is from Gertie Sews Vintage Casual, modified to have slightly puffy sleeves.
Anyway, wish me luck! And I promise to write up at least some of my recent makes soon...
