kcwc fall 2012: day six
1. shoulder patch shirt 2. mustard and grey 3. charlie shirt 4. half kindje
I woke up to a gray and rainy weekend–the perfect weekend to cozy up in front of the sewing machine! I hope it’s crummy weather where you are too :)
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the pattern: Sunki dress by Figgy’s patterns.
the fabric: pinwale corduroy in aqua and leftover purple fabric from these pants.
the sewing: The sewing was challenging. I mean look at the dress! The pockets are definitely the coolest part of the design and they are also the hardest to figure out. Luckily, others have made them and written about it already. Laura from Charm Stitch has a particularly helpful blog post about putting the pockets together (thank you Laura! you saved me!). Once I made the pockets correctly I felt like a sewing genius, so everything else came together without much swearing. The arms are pleated and fussy–and mine aren’t perfect. The zipper was surprisingly simple. You put it in the same way you put in a zipper on a pillow, which seems somehow wrong, but it’s done and functional so you don’t hear me complaining. The dress is a little short, but it still works for scrambles in the woods.
