{"id":42,"date":"2020-02-03T20:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T01:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/?p=42"},"modified":"2020-02-03T22:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T03:28:17","slug":"my-new-dress-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"My new dress shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2 days ago I finished a dressy shirt, and then I spent the next 24h period ish, in between taking care of a baby, trying to fix the images so they would download onto the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, because 2 days ago is also the day I decided to start this blog, I don’t have a lot of my process recorded. However, I thought it would be fun to share what I’ve done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started this dresssy shirt with a pretty basic pattern\/design I’ve used before. I’ve used the pattern\/design to make the top part of dress once, where the bottom was a simple circle skirt. See my post here (insert post link, after post is written). It’s one of my favourite outfits, so I thought I’d try the same design again. However, as the skirts on that style of top are always too short, in my opinion, I wanted to modify it slightly to make it longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have had this fabric in my drawer for ages that I didn’t know what to do with. The main difficulty I had with it was the various types of patterning on it, and the fact that the patterns spanned across the fabric in straight lines. I wanted to preserve the beauty of the fabric but also make something flowy with it. I wasn’t sure how to do both, as I’m still relatively new at sewing, but as it’s been sitting there for ages I thought this was as good an opportunity as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to split the patterns on the fabric into 3 sections of the design I had in mind. The bodice would have the medium-sized, more intricate fabric pattern. The middle skirt would have the largest fabric design that had a more basic pattern that could flair out (as flairs need to be cut on a curve). On the bottom I wanted to attach the final fabric pattern, which would need to be a straight cut along, and so I just added it to the flaired portion of the design because I had quite a length of fabric that I could use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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this is what the final sections of the 3 parts of the patterning looked like when I was done <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As the fabric was very light in weight and dark in colour, I was able to make minor mistakes that are basically completely unnoticeable (such as sewing the seam on the wrong side of the fabric). Which is great! I hate seam ripping light fabrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really did do a lot of process in this, but as I didn’t record the majority of it, it’s a bit difficult to go over everything I did and how I messed up\/fixed it. I am really pleased with the finished product though! It looks basically how I envisioned it, and I was even able to do a proper lining of both the bodice and the skirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the design on me, after it was completed. Please ignore the messy background <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The bodice up close. I needed two lines of fabric that roughly lined up to the side pieces so they needed to overlap a little <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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this is how the bottom fabric pattern looks on the finished product. I wasn’t able to make it line up perfectly because of where this part of the pattern was on the original fabric. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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2 days ago I finished a dressy shirt, and then I spent the next 24h period ish, in between taking care of a baby, trying to fix the images so they would download onto the app. Unfortunately, because 2 days ago is also the day I decided to start this blog, I don’t have a lot of my process recorded. However, I thought it would be fun to share what I’ve done. I started this dresssy shirt with a pretty basic pattern\/design I’ve used before. I’ve used the pattern\/design to make the top part of dress once, where the bottom was a simple circle skirt. See my post here (insert post link, after post is written). It’s one of my favourite outfits, so I thought I’d try the same design again. However, as the skirts on that style of top are always too short, in my opinion, I wanted to modify it slightly to make it longer. I have had this fabric in my drawer for ages that I didn’t know what to do with. The main difficulty I had with it was the various types of patterning on it, and the fact that the patterns spanned across the fabric in straight lines. I wanted to preserve the beauty of the fabric but also make something flowy with it. I wasn’t sure how to do both, as I’m still relatively new at sewing, but as it’s been sitting there for ages I thought this was as good an opportunity as ever. I decided to split the patterns on the fabric into 3 sections of the design I had in mind. The bodice would have the medium-sized, more intricate fabric pattern. The middle skirt would have the largest fabric design that had a more basic pattern that could flair out (as flairs need to be cut on a curve). On the bottom I wanted to attach the final fabric pattern, which would need to be a straight cut along, and so I just added it to the flaired portion of the design because I had quite a length of fabric that I could use. As the fabric was very light in weight and dark in colour, I was able to make minor mistakes that are basically completely unnoticeable (such as sewing the seam on the wrong side of the fabric). Which is great! I hate seam ripping light fabrics. I really did do a lot of process in this, but as I didn’t record the majority of it, it’s a bit difficult to go over everything I did and how I messed up\/fixed it. I am really pleased with the finished product though! It looks basically how I envisioned it, and I was even able to do a proper lining of both the bodice and the skirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dacoolest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}