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Starting My May Project - Simplicity #1611

5/11/2015

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Time for my May project.  I'm actually working on a dress for someone else right now, too. But, I'm not sure if I will blog about it ... need to ask permission.
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One of the points of my monthly projects was to use up some of the really nice fabrics I have in my stash, but ... this is not from my stash. It's new. I fell in love it when I was shopping for one of my Simplicity projects. Fabric shopping can be dangerous.  This is from fashionfabricsclub.com.
It is 100% rayon. Rayon is a comfortable fabric for a summer dress and it packs well so I would like to be able to take it traveling and be able to wash it. So I really needed to preshrink it. 
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I completely wet it and hung it over a chair on my front porch to let it air dry. I plan to air dry it every time I wash it in the future.
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Then pressed it. I want this to be an easy wearing dress and don't mind a few wrinkles.
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This fabric is so interesting I chose the simplest style. I used to have a similar rayon dress in blue tones that was a summer staple for me.


Miss it!
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The fit of this dress shouldn't be too much of a problem and since I've been sewing for myself a lot recently, I have a sense for what size to make. So after checking the finished garment measurements I decided I would cut a size 12 above the waist and a size 14 below. To do this I drew a gradual line at the side seam from the 12 at the bust line to the 14 at the hip for both the front and back patterns.
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OH, and another thing I checked before cutting was the measurement from the shoulder seam to the bust point.  I often have to lower the dart but this time my measurement and the pattern matched up and the dart didn't need to be changed.


Sewing on Wednesday.
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Mary Carroll link
5/11/2015 08:37:14 am

That fabric is so cool-it is just right ffor the pattern.

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