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[aelia]

Overlockers are awesome. That is all.

(So is the teacher there too, she is (hopefully) going to help me with a 1950's dress pattern I purchased from Etsy a while ago, and was made of photocopied fail.

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OKAY, yes, I am going to be attempting to make my rockabilly dress IRL for me to wear okay? WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OF IT?? )

Tutorial coming, soon as I either work out WTF to do about pictures (yeah, I know some of mine have died too, but you think I keep the original files backed up? Nooo, I delete them soon as they upload. Fail Aelia, fail.) or get enraged and make it into a downloadable html file. 

Off to bed for me, for I should not be writting chatty journals at 12.08 am, particularly after a long day.  

Comments

[curiousb]

I'm most envious - I would love to have your rockabilly dress in RL, and even more so I'd love to have the skill to make it myself! :)

[aelia]

Haha, so would I believe me :P I feel I will be going through a fair amount of cheap crappy fabric before I get to something I like

[danimaree]

I made a dress a few years ago that was remarkably similar to the rockabilly dress, practically identical. It even had polka dots. They're very simple to make, so I'd love to hear how your project goes!

And agreed, overlockers are awesome. I haven't done sewing in awhile but I loved using the one at school in my fashion design class.

[aelia]

Heh, then I hope this one is simple :D Did yours turn out well?

And they are fantastic! I might just have to save up for one :D

[danimaree]

Pretty well, yeah. The bodice was perfect, but the fabric was a little stiff and my stepdad used too much washing powder in the machine which stained the fabric with these white marks so I never actually got to wear it out unfortunately.

Those problems aside though, it was pretty comfortable and given how simple it was, it's very much worth giving it a shot.

[aelia]

Urgh, that sucks! But at least it turned out good in the first place and was comfortable :D

[shake_the_shell]

(Isn't Etsy awesome?)

I'm going to chime in and agree, I'd love to see pictures of how you get on with it :) I adore that dress, if I'd any confidence with sewing machines I would try to make it irl myself. Lots of luck!