My passion for fashion started to develop when I was very small,
possibly due to the fact that I owned a lot of Barbies and loved to dress them
up with an enormous variety of doll-sized clothes. I started crafting clothes
for them with fabric and silicone, until I taught myself how to hand-sew.
After that, I made some other clothes sewing by hand, until my mother showed me
how to use the sewing machine. Some time later, my grandma helped me make the
Dorothy Dress (check out my previous post). Even
later, I dared to make my first dress from scratch and completely on my own.
Crafted from an old fabric that my mom had kept within a fabric
stash since many years ago, the dress follows almost the same pattern as one of
my Ixia dresses. I traced out the pattern directly from a dress and adjusted it
to fit some seam allowance and zipper space.
It is made from some kind of white and blue printed curtain or
tapestry fabric. It holds up nice and
firm, but the fabric is still still somewhat soft. Even though the seams are
not perfect, it still has some pencil markings on the reverse side, and it has
some fitting mistakes, I am very proud of my first serious dress. I wear it
with pride, knowing that it was the start of what has been a wonderful progress
as a self-taught seamstress.
Here’s a collage with several shots of the complete dress-making
process.
Keep an eye out for more fashion
posts!
