July is here and the heatwaves arrived. Not much energy to do crafting. But still I’ve managed to finish yet another summer dress from the infamous book of my previous post. I ranked it as the perfect summer dress. Plus it’s really easy to sew. All you’re gonna need is 2,5 meters of fabric and about 20 meters of elastic thread. And some patience to sew the elastic thread parts. The only problem now is that I need at least two variations of it. And around autumn I will need the sleeved versions too. Good thing that Marimekko was on sale this week and I got a good grip on it. Can you imagine marimekko dress with this pattern? I can.
This is called brilliant pattern design, don’t you think? You just cut straight pieces of fabric and then let the elastic rectangular details do the fitting job. How didn’t I think of this? (uhm cause you don’t design patterns, that’s why). So here is the technical drawing of the dress.
And here it is finished and modelled by me:
and a view of the details:
Once more: the book is called “Dresses with Straight Stitches” and has ISBN-10: 4309280196
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Hello, long time reader first time writer.
Love your dress. I do most of my own design as well here in South Korea. The fabric shop in my town would make you weep for your bank account (3 floors almost 1 km per floor).
When you did the elastic squares did you draw them before stitching? I’m doing more with elastic thread now for fitting so I’m curious. I can never seem to get the damn lines straight.
Cheers,
Sara
p.s. Found you through search on making Ikea cushion covers.
Hi Sara,
I’m jealous of the fabric shop you are mentioning. Unfortunately here sewing is still considered an uncool thing to do and most fabric shops are small with a limited variety of fabrics. Though you can find some decent fabrics, most of them are aimed at older ladies taste. Yay for online shopping!!!
About the elastic squares. I did spend a lot of time into placing them right and then sketching them on the fabric. Book gives detailed information. I think without it, it might look too chaotic.
Wow that is really brilliant! I used to sew a lot before knitting took over my life, and that is a very unique design. I love that dress 🙂
Wow..! That dress with straight stitches is looking awesome.
Hi! I’m salivating over this book you’ve mentioned…the only one I’ve found is on the Japanese Amazon website…do you have an English version? If not, how did get a hold of it??