Wednesday 1 July 2015

Completed: Sewaholic Cambie with a Pleated Skirt

Hello! It seems summer has now come and gone! Well almost. The sun seems to have returned to the clouds... At least I had a dress ready for the summer and conveniently as it turns out - it was the same day as my cousin's wedding!

Sewaholic Cambie Dress
The bodice pattern I used for this dress - as the title suggests is the Cambie by Sewaholic. This is a personal favourite bodice of mine however looking at the fit i think I need to make a few changes. I have already shortened the waistline by a cm or two and for this verison I made a sway back alteration too. Next time I think I will side down the bodice to an 8, perform an FBA, raise the neckline by a few cm and then grade back out to a 10 for the waist, I found that the neckline still gapes a little and I am determined to rectify this!

I think this photo proves we have lived together toooo long!!

In terms of pattern placement I only really agonised over the placement of the CF bodice. I wanted to have the flowers of the print on full display! Because of this I ran slightly over the 2 m of fabric I had and used some scraps from a previous project to use as the back lining and pocket pieces. The fabric was really light so definetely required lining - if only for modesty!

For the skirt I used my now favorite sewing technique - pleats! I substituted the gathered skirt for one width of fabric rectangle for the front and two half width for the sides - maintaining the pocket pieces of course. This brought a whole new meaning to advanced higher maths!!

each pleat was measured out to 4.8 cm

I did experience some overlap of the pleats because the fabric was 160 cm wide.... and I experienced a lot of heartache in ironing them pleats when I took the dress out of the case! This added like an hour to my getting ready time!

So thats about it for this dress. Sadly I ran out of time to make the red crepe dress which I had wanted to but I'm really happy with what resulted! And to finish on a high - who can resist an awesome photo in a beautiful car!


Hope everyone else enjoyed their summer (!)

Jenn xx

4 comments:

  1. Ooo la la! This is so perfect! You look gorgeous. Great pictures...

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    1. thanks :-) I really loved the dress and have plans to get a framed version of the bottom pic (but a slightly clearer version) for our wall :-)

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  2. Get you with your sway back and FBAs - you sound like a professional seamstress! Dress looks gorgeous. It's SO much fun making a dress for a special occasion. Be a bit more optimistic about summer - I know you're in Scotland but even so!

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    1. Thanks! i'm beginning to be able to fel the difference with the alterations im making now so that newer dresses are feeling so much better! The weather really has been terrible since this post though - muggy grey and loads of thunder :-( hopefully we will be able to get away somewhere nice next year!!

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