Advance 2709

Sorry I haven't been sewing! There's been lots of work going on at home, hence why I have only just finished hemming and photographing my newest creation, Advance 2709.

I love this pattern! Its set-in, diagonal pockets. Its six-gored skirt. The fact that it has a provision for just a shirt-waist dress as well as the full shirt dress. (I only had four buttons, so I went for the shirt-waist. Also, I hate making button holes but love shirt-waists, so... that's also a reason.)

From The Year 2050

The back of this dress has a nice yoke and gather detail and the sleeves came out quite puffy as well, which gives the dress almost a '40's style feel to the dress that looks far more '60s on the envelope. Perhaps this is also because of my height and the length that the dress ended up being. But I think this came out splendidly. I found this fabric, with its great pattern, on sale and I think this will end up being my go-to dress next summer. The fabric is really a quite thin cotton, but the fit is wonderful - it comes in close at the waist but it isn't uncomfortable.

Ah! I just can't get enough of it. I can see myself sewing this pattern again and again, but I'll probably take some length off if I make it in a solid.

Here are some more photos in a sort of natural-ish light, showing front and back.

From The Year 2050

Today's pattern experience

Today, I got four patterns. The two I won in the contest over at Adventures in Baby Sewing (Simplicity 4777 and Simplicity 3085) and two I got at a local antique store warehouse. The ones I won are complete (except for one back facing - but that's okay).


[They look great and I'm excited to make them. I really like the button/seam detail on Simplicity 3085.]

The other two... that's where the adventure comes in.

I meant to buy McCall's 5045 and Advance 9575.

What I got was almost all of McCall's 5045 (all of the dress and jumper but just bits and pieces of the blouse - like, not the front or back of it...), none of Advance 9575, the envelope for McCall's 8153, about half of the pieces for Mail Order 9361 (all of views A and B, I think), the mitt facing for McCall's 2133, parts of McCall's 7970 (it's got a front, back, jacket, and skirt from what I can tell, I don't know what this one looks like), the pocket for McCall's 2248, the front of Simplicity 8506, the blouse front and back and armhole facing for Simplicity 5140, and the stockings for McCall's 7945 (my personal favorite random piece).

I'm not quite sure what to do with all of this, except throw it together in a bag and call it miscellaneous. I think I've learned my lesson about not checking pieces, but I am having a moral quandary about going back and sorting through all the patterns they have because I think they're probably all this bad.