Jumper dresses (I'd call them pinafores) are so useful - sewists wear them often but you rarely see them on the high street. Love the pattern matching content in this project!
I think I went into it in more detail in one of the older videos, but to be honest, I can't remember which! I'll try to detail it again the next time I do it.
It looks super cute, but I think you should make a brooch that has a few holly leaves and red holly berries in the middle and then attach this brooch to the bodice of the dress. That would accentuate the Christmas vibe of the dress.
I ended up making myself a plaid dress this winter too. The plaid is green, white, and blue (so a bit more winter themed than the traditional red Christmas plaid). It has 3/4 sleeves and a skirt that hits just below the knee. I'm very happy with how it turned out in the end, but it felt slightly cursed when I was sewing it. I got covid in the middle of making it and then I guess my sewing mojo was off when I recovered because I kept making dumb mistakes. I had to rip out more seems than I care to admit, but it got there in the end. I've been wearing it with some tights and my Irish cable knit sweater.
Very cute! It amazes me that you went for pattern-matching on the front princess seams. I wouldn’t have even considered doing so, but if anyone can match a plaid like that with those curves, it’d be you. Nicely done 👍🏻
I love that dress! I love the neckline and the pleats and the colors, and the whole thing is adorable. The fullness of the skirt is just perfect. I’d be wearing that dress every day.🌻
Pattern matching plaid with princess seams is definitely a thing.... I just line up the waist line on a stripe and adjust from there and make sure my pieces are symmetrical, if I have enough fabric I'll try to make sure that it doesn't look too weird at the curves and call it good enough... That turned out so cute! I'm starting to get more into pinafores myself, easier to keep a skirt up on narrow hips when it's not being held up by a waistband and instead hangs off my shoulders! This year's xmas craft is making everyone a fabric drawstring bag with a fridge magnet with the clip on it for safety glasses/sun glasses/readers cause the only thing worse than not being able to find your eyewear is finding it's gotten scratched to heck in the toolbox/glove compartment from banging around unprotected. So now everyone gets a basic pair of safety glasses in a bag that can be clipped or stuck somewhere safe. So far the rabbit has permitted me to sew three of them and cut out half a dozen more from stash fabric, and I'll be making at least a dozen in total for family and friends, then after that my next project for me is a purple linen walking skirt, then the next thing I make from the rest of that linen will be a kirtle dress now that I've got a working pattern... I'll also be making Secret Pants proof of concept out of the remains of a martial arts hakama I wrecked through overuse and lack of reinforcement, and will be finishing a new hakama I started about 8 years ago now that I remember how to deal with the pleats.
I have made your summer strawberry wrap dress, in a dark blue fabric with a silver Christmas tree, Christmas baubles and snowflakes. Love your dress❤❤❤
Christmas projects. I was looking at extra wide quilt backing flannel for a couple of future quilt projects and stumbled onto a 15 yard bolt for just a little more than the usual price for one of the 3 yard cuts I need for my quilts🎉. I will have enough flannel for 4 quilts now. Before I use it in my quilt though, I really want to test the quality… it would suck to make an expensive, time consuming quilt top then back it with crappy fabric. Soooo…. My Christmas projects are flannel night gowns, pajamas and a circle skirt which I plan to wear the heck out of this winter to get a good idea of whether this fabric is any good or not.
I made two flannel house dresses during lockdowns and wore them a lot, so far so good! I'm planning to make some Secret Pants with some more that I recently acquired...
I've been making jeans and sturdy canvas pants this year, but I've not been able to work on them because Christmas decorations currently take up my dinning room table and that's where I sew.
It turned out lovely. I realized as you were matching the plaid that you were inadvertently making a "Molly" outfit. One less American Girl Doll outfit to make in the future.😂😉
That’s so pretty 😻😻 I absolutely love the fabric! I have my eye on a somewhat similar plaid, but that’s for an 1840s dress , even though I, too, like jumper dresses 😄
I love those pleats! I really is a gorgeous plaid. Too gorgeous to relegate to just Christmas wear, lol. I can see being able to get a lot of wear out of it, and so many lovely shirt options! I did love that red buttoned panel, but yeah, I guess it would make wearing a red shirt more difficult. Congrats on the new dress! You and Lion take great Christmas cards together. Merry Christmas! 🎄
Such a pretty dress! I would love to have that tablecloth for my table!! 😆 I'm knitting a striped cardigan in shades of red, mauve & cream. It's a work in progress, since I'm designing as I go. I already knit one sleeve in the stripe that goes perpendicular to the body, but since it is a dropped sleeve, I'm considering knitting the other sleeve with the stripes going lengthwise down the sleeve, and then deciding which looks better. Not sure which way to go. ❤
With pleats, I pin the ends or sides and then pin middle point to middle point. Then I do the same in the two new sections. I follow this by either dividing again or pleating depending on width of fabric to be pleated to nonpleated fabric. If that makes sense.
I found a rally cute christmasy fabric that's red with little green trees and I'm going to make a waistcoat! hopefully in time to wear for Christmas but i just cant seem to find the time!
Oh my gosh I love it so much! I have a tablecloth just like that but I'm curious how much fabric you had. Was it around or square tablecloth and what were the dimensions? I'll go back and watch the beginning of the video and see if you brought that up already butI would love to make one of these for myself!
I got a really pretty purple green and gold plaid table cloth but it’s oblong and I didn’t realize it until I had gotten it home. Now it just sits in my stash cause I’m not sure what to do with it
Coming back to you, after like a year of being busy, I think you’re the reason I wear jumper dresses!! I wore one of mine today while in town and I always get compliments in them! Thanks for the subconscious inspiration in my style!
You did such a good job pattern matching this dress!!! I love how you did the bodice, and the pattern choice you made for pleating the skirt. SUPER GOOD JOB! BRAVO!! I have a gray and black velvet houndstooth that I was going to cut into just a straight skirt to wear to a Cantata, and my youngest came to me and wanted to know if I was finally going to make the Other Mother's outfit from Coraline . I'm glad she stopped me. I hadn't even thought about it, and that fabric is perfect for one of the outfits where the Other Mother no longer dresses like the Mother. I have a LOT of other Christmas skirts in various stages of being made, I guess it's time to pick one and finish it. I'm feeling like plaid or velvet this year. All of those options are completely uncut, though. I guess I best get on with it, whatever it is. BEAUTIFUL JUMPER!!!
