Hello everyone and welcome to this new post about my new Minerva make! I’m really excited about sharing this one with you because it was a very creative process due to some little problems I had to fix 😅 I can’t even count how many times the design changed on the fingers of two hands. Let’s just dive in and I will explain you everything
I immediately fell in love with this beautiful Dashwood studio cotton fabric when I first saw it on Minerva. I got a 60s feeling right away, and if you already know me a bit, you would know that I’m a big fan of Vintage (inspired) fashion. I wanted to make a simple A-line, 60s dress for some time now and the #Simplicity1609 pattern seemed the perfect match for this project. It looked like a very simple pattern to sew, and it probably would have been very easy if I didn’t change my design so many times 😅 Let’s start with a little overview of the main changes I’ve made.
First of all I wanted to make the dress but add a sleeve to it, I thought that if it had sleeves I could wear the dress more often, because the weather in Belgium isn’t always “sleeveless dress friendly” 😅. But when I wanted to add a sleeve I had to use a sleeve from another pattern or draw one myself, which seemed a bit too much time consuming, so I just left the plan of adding sleeves. I thought if I want to wear this dress in colder weather, I can still wear a turtleneck underneath and work with layers.
Then the second problem showed up, because the middle front seam isn’t 100% straight, you can’t cut it on the fold, so you have a seam in middle front. I did what the instructions told me to do and sewed the center front seam. Because I worked with a print, I didn’t like the middle front seam at all! the print was looking weird and I had to fix it otherwise it would have bothered me forever. I knew that there were a lot of 60s dresses with stripes down the middle front, so I thought that would be a good solution. It looked a bit weird to just put a white line in the middle of a dress, without having any other white details. That’s why I also finished off the armholes and neckline with the white ribbon. It was a satin bias tape, so very easy to use as well.
I had deepened the neckline a bit, because it came very high and I didn’t need the 1,5cm seam allowance to sew on the bias tape. But now when I fitted the dress again, after sewing the bias tape to the neckline, I bounced onto another problem. The neckline was too loose and too big. Together with my grandma I thought of a solution, and she came up with the idea to sew in a little pleat in the middle of neckline. This seemed the easiest solution and I think it doesn’t look so bad after all.
I’m so happy with how the dress turned out in the end, even though I had some problems. I really love the sixties vibe of it and it’s all because of the beautiful print on the fabric. The cotton fabric was also very easy to sew with and you may already know that it’s one of my favorite fabrics to work with.
Thank you all for reading this post, Hopefully I could inspire you with this make a I wish you all a lovely, creative day! 🧵✂️
Lots of love
Sofie D.
#Minervamake #MinervaMakes #MinervaBrandAmbassador #MinervaMakers
I immediately fell in love with this beautiful Dashwood studio cotton fabric when I first saw it on Minerva. I got a 60s feeling right away, and if you already know me a bit, you would know that I’m a big fan of Vintage (inspired) fashion. I wanted to make a simple A-line, 60s dress for some time now and the #Simplicity1609 pattern seemed the perfect match for this project. It looked like a very simple pattern to sew, and it probably would have been very easy if I didn’t change my design so many times 😅 Let’s start with a little overview of the main changes I’ve made.
First of all I wanted to make the dress but add a sleeve to it, I thought that if it had sleeves I could wear the dress more often, because the weather in Belgium isn’t always “sleeveless dress friendly” 😅. But when I wanted to add a sleeve I had to use a sleeve from another pattern or draw one myself, which seemed a bit too much time consuming, so I just left the plan of adding sleeves. I thought if I want to wear this dress in colder weather, I can still wear a turtleneck underneath and work with layers.
Then the second problem showed up, because the middle front seam isn’t 100% straight, you can’t cut it on the fold, so you have a seam in middle front. I did what the instructions told me to do and sewed the center front seam. Because I worked with a print, I didn’t like the middle front seam at all! the print was looking weird and I had to fix it otherwise it would have bothered me forever. I knew that there were a lot of 60s dresses with stripes down the middle front, so I thought that would be a good solution. It looked a bit weird to just put a white line in the middle of a dress, without having any other white details. That’s why I also finished off the armholes and neckline with the white ribbon. It was a satin bias tape, so very easy to use as well.
I had deepened the neckline a bit, because it came very high and I didn’t need the 1,5cm seam allowance to sew on the bias tape. But now when I fitted the dress again, after sewing the bias tape to the neckline, I bounced onto another problem. The neckline was too loose and too big. Together with my grandma I thought of a solution, and she came up with the idea to sew in a little pleat in the middle of neckline. This seemed the easiest solution and I think it doesn’t look so bad after all.
I’m so happy with how the dress turned out in the end, even though I had some problems. I really love the sixties vibe of it and it’s all because of the beautiful print on the fabric. The cotton fabric was also very easy to sew with and you may already know that it’s one of my favorite fabrics to work with.
Thank you all for reading this post, Hopefully I could inspire you with this make a I wish you all a lovely, creative day! 🧵✂️
Lots of love
Sofie D.
#Minervamake #MinervaMakes #MinervaBrandAmbassador #MinervaMakers
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