Butterick dress

Happy news...I finally won a dressmaker's dummy on ebay for $55. I am so happy! I pick it up on friday, woot woo. If it doesn't work out I wont be too upset as my sewing teacher has offered my hers (the dummy's name is gertrude) for $50. She used to do wedding dresses, apparently its in perfect condition so maybe I'll end up with two!

Have you named your dummy? I've noticed people doing that a lot lately.



Without petticoat

 I recently finished my floral dress, (side note to date I have always made something out of a floral fabric, that has to change, just to mix it up a bit.) It came up a dream, very easy to sew, except that i made a mistake when cutting the gathering i cut too close to the stiching which made hand sewing very difficult, it also wasnt helped but the fact, Ive never hand sewed anything before. Most likely after this dress I never will again. My poor fingers. :)

With a petticoat, unhemmed.

The photo looks squashed but i don't know how to fix it, sorry.

As you most likely can tell its unhemmed, and i have pins sticking it in so it looks slightly odd in the waist, but its fine in real life, i took the pins out. I'm only taking the dress up about 2 cm not 3.2cm like it calls for.

This is not my dress makers model this is just a mannequin that holds my wedding dress, although the dress is big as this manny is only size 6! Tiny. All in all I would make this dress again. Its so nice to wear & will be great for the up coming hot weather. I can't wait!

Thanks for reading,
Kat ;p