Sew Coco: lace

Saturday, January 26, 2013

belle peasant dress....

I have been reading some old books & watching old movies lately & feeling whimsical so I made this dress.

I used McCall's 5050 pattern view E but made it a dress by adding 4 inches. A little too short so I added the lace hem.

The raglan bell sleeves in this pattern is what caught my eye in the pattern $1.99 markdown bin.

This was supposed to be my toile using this inexpensive unknown fibers fabric, as I thought the pattern was complicated, but it was way easy!

So now I can make this dress in some Silk fabric I have been coveting at the fabric store.

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Friday, March 18, 2011

Welcome to my Fashion Friday post! I have been sewing with lace & denim this week...do lace & denim go together? I think so, it makes for a feminine edge type of look. I have always loved lace and have an appreciation for seamstress's that make beautiful dresses & gowns with it!

For my design I started by looking at different types of lace at the fabric store and was surprised as there were some beautiful floral lace that looked modern but I ended up choosing this circle lace that I liked as soon as I saw it.

I already had the denim from my Bleu Denim Dress and I made a straight skirt with a side zipper this time. This denim skirt is the underlay to the lace so it is a simple skirt.

For the lace skirt I was a bit nervous cutting into such fine fabric but I used the circles on the lace as a guide along with my own pattern to keep the cut straight.

This lace is a medium weight lace so it is actually feels warm when worn with the denim if that makes any sense at all!

I had to sew this a bit slower on my machine because the lace was a bit thicker than most of the lace I have seen or sewn with.

This is what I found looking for inspiration this week!