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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern, The Rainbow Edition

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My second entry in Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern. Other interpretations can be found HERE.WPCRed3

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ROYGBIV. Mix of new and vintage prints from my fabric stash. Which one is your favourite?

 

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May Thrifty Giveaway- Sew Mama Sew

So many years I planned to join it and equally many years I missed it. What, you ask. Well, Sew Mama Sew’s huge Giveaway Day of course. For those who don’t know, the giveaway day is twice a year event where it’s perfectly okay to comment on people’s blogs just in hopes to win some crafty goodness. I’ve had some luck myself in the giveways. I’ve won fabrics, cute pillow cover and even a lovely handbound leather notebook (which I still haven’t used because I don’t want to use it for anything trivial).

This year I decided to combine my May giveaway with Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day and hereby I present my prize:

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10 fat quarters of various vintage sheets! Yes, 10! This is a fantastic way to bulk up your stash don’t you think?

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Oh, how I love that pattern. It’s from an old pillow case. And that orange-purple-green just peeking under? Used to be a curtain.

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Now the important part…How to enter: 
1. Leave a comment on this giveaway post AND your e-mail address so I can contact you if you win. The e-mail won’t be visible to anyone else but me, UNLESS you type it in the comment section that is.
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2. Follow me and leave me a comment telling me that you did. Doesn’t matter if it’s via WordPress, RSS-feeder, Facebook or Pinterest, any one will do. If you already are a follower, remind me that you are :)
3. Help ME to get to TOP10 in a photo contest by voting my PHOTO. Just click the little + next to text ÄÄNESTÄ TÄTÄ KUVAA and your vote should register right away. Then let me know that you did.

The giveaway closes on May 10th at 23.59 Helsinki time and is open globally. I will contact the winner personally and announce it here too. Additional prizes may be offered if amount of comments exceeds 200.

Here’s the list of other Giveaway Day Giveaways:

Sewing + Craft Supplies
Handmade Baby + Kid Items
Handmade for the Home
Handmade Bags
Handmade Accessories
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Oh, Happy Sunday!

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You know Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day? What a question, of course you do. Well, as I mentioned in my Christmas Shopping post, I was pretty tired from commenting on dozens of fab blogs but all that work wasn’t for nothing!!! Why? Because I won! Yes, I won me some pretty fabrics!

I’m so happy now.

Which is quite appropriate as the blog, where I won, is called Call Her Happy. Well, I don’t mind if you do! This is the loot I’ll be receiving someday. Hopefully soon.

Call Her Happy, quilting cotton I’m especially excited for the pink birdie fabric and the one with hexagons! The rest will be perfect for making gifts. The tiny ballerina bear is so going to my Parisian friend’s daughter. She has begun dancing and the rumour is that after every lesson she has to show EVERY move she learned. Maybe I could make a tiny bag where she can carry her dance gear.

Eep! I’m feeling so giddy right now!

Thrifty Finn Sews: Biba Dress

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You know those moments when you finally get to use a lovely print fabric you’ve had in your stash for a quite a few years? Last week I bought a simple tricot dress from H&M and I liked how the silhouette of it made MY silhouette less lumpy and decided to replicate it.

The dress on the left is the H&M one and on the right is my version. I opted to replace bias binding with facing and the straps are simple tubes. The material I used is slightly see through so I made the skirt part with two layers. Since the dress is empire line, you could see my jiggly belly shining through between the bust line and pantyhose waistline. Not so sexy. Which my friend kindly pointed out when I sent him a picture of me wearing the dress before the second layer.

The same friend who just called me to tell how delicious the pizza he ordered smells.

I cut the patterned material three ways. Horizontally on the skirt, diagonally on the bodice and vertically on the straps to add visual interest. I had 2,5 meters of 150cm wide material and I used all of it. The big material spender being the bias-cut bodice. Which, I now realize, didn’t necessarily need the facing cut in bias too.

Another mistake I did was when I made the pattern for the bodice was that I forgot to add ease. Since fitting things on yourself is rather difficult, to fix it I first added way too wide panels on the sides, then I put the bodice back on, marked the excess with pins and then sewed darts on both sides to make it fit. Because the print is busy, the panels are hardly visible plus I intend to wear this with a jacket or a cardigan anyway. Flabby arms to hide you see :D

Here’s the finished dress in full. I’m on the hunt for a vintage denim jacket to combine it with. The skirt is finished with rolled hem which I find to be the easiest way of finishing flimsy material. I strongly recommend learning to do it! It’s totally worth the tears!

The back. I have more gathering here as that is where I need the extra space. Yes, I could be in THAT Sir Mix-A-Lot video. I even have the moves.

This pattern works very well with small floral prints. My local fabric store has begun stocking Liberty- fabrics so I think I’m going to splurge and get some of that. Then one more in black and I’m all stocked up for summer. Do you have special plans for your summer wardrobe?

Till next time.