Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
My favourite dress died a sad death the other week, caused by almost 6 years of continuous hard use. So, like a Normal Person, I picked it apart to use as a pattern for new ones!
(Particularly after a mostly unfruitful search for replacement dresses that were actually in my budget :\ I can’t afford to pay a lot for replacements, but I also don’t love the idea of buying the super cheap bargain dresses because exploitation? And finding something that fit right was a challenge too.)
One of the local fabric chains had a 40% off sale, and most of the fabric I picked up was less than $5AU per metre. Considering I discovered that I only need just over a metre for a short dress (since the fabrics are all 1.5m wide) and 2.5 for a long dress…. $8 to make a short dress? $13 for a long one?! YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
(I know there’s still exploitation/serious environmental degradation involved in fabric creation, but this does at least *reduce* the impact of my clothing?)
(Also I’m super lucky in that my mum taught me to sew when I was 3, so pulling apart an old dress and making a new one is literally no big deal for me, apart from the time commitment. For reference this dress took 2.5 hours for the first iteration, then another hour to fix the fit since I had to undo the whole front and redo it :’D)
Because my modus operandi is to start something, switch gears to something else, pick up a third thing, work a little more on the first, and so on and so forth (i.e. exactly how I unpicked the dress), I laid out the fabric for one dress and then ended up making a totally different one :’D But hey! I made a dress, so it worked, right?
I used the bodice pattern from the dead dress I’d pulled apart (though I had to redo part of it after realising that the thinner fabric of the original dress was stretching a LOT more while wearing it than I’d thought, and that therefore the new pieces of the thicker velveteen were too small for me >.<) and the skirt from a new dress I got in the mail the other week.
I’m pretty happy with the result, tbh, (I think?? :’D) and keen to find time to sew up the other five fabrics I have… 😀
And now, what have you made this week? Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂