Thank you very much! And I totally agree - for sleeves the bigger and fancier the better (another reason to avoid modern sleeves, which are so basic and skimpy!) The 30s being the ultimate era for sleeves of course :)
Thank you very much! I see what you mean - the sleeves are enough of a statement in themselves. Perhaps a full skirt with the sleeves might have been a bit much (overtones of Lady Diana’s 80s wedding dress!!!) xx
Having less fabric in the skirt makes the dress more 'accessible' for daily wear if it had a fuller skirt I automatically think wedding guest or bridesmaid with floor length skirt. You look amazing, great job! ❤
I know what you mean - a fuller skirt would have made it more ‘dressy’ and therefore less wearable. So perhaps my lack of fabric was a blessing in disguise! Thank you so much for watching and for encouraging me ❤️🥰
Thank you very much and that’s so lovely to know - I will keep in mind your kind words to see me through my tech struggles (which are lessening with time!!) 💐
I’m so pleased that you enjoyed the video! And thank you for letting me know you like the dress - it was quite an epic to make but I do rather like it myself!! 💐
Yours was the first comment I saw after uploading the video and I breathed a huge sigh of relief that the dress would be well received. So thank you very much! 💐
The dress looks lovely. The vintage fabric is gorgeous, and the sleeves are just incredible! Thank you so much for giving us the pattern, - I will definitely use it at some point in the future.
Thank you very much! I was surprised by how easy the sleeves were to sew and that they actually looked like the pattern illustration on first attempt! I was expecting more drama (which thankfully didn’t happen!) So pleased you might try out the butterfly sleeves for yourself too! 💐
All the technical stuff was lost on me, no surprise there, but yet again I was so impressed by the finished result. It was lovely. I think one of the things I have learnt about vintage sewing is how practical you have to be, piecing together the skirt for example. I imagine this happened a lot in the 30's and 40's. I think you are so skillful and talented, I for one do not believe in any of the jeopardy you may suggest as I have every confidence in you.
Thank you very much Ian - it’s good to hear you have confidence in me! I never know till I put something on whether it has worked out. I’m always scared it will look awful or not fit. This definitely happens to me if I sew the reproduction vintage patterns graded to modern sizes. I am vintage sized! I also think in the 30s and 40s women had to be practical and creative themselves - no fast fashion like today. It’s one of the things that draws me to the era.
Thank you so much - gardening, dressmaking and dogs are my passions (though not in that order, the dogs would definitely demand to be put first!!) 😁 Buying vintage on the cheap is another favourite hobby of course! Xx
Hello Josephine, I’m so pleased you watched this one - I knew you’d love the fabric! And the style of dress is up your street too. Thank you so much for watching and supporting 💗💐
Your dress is absolutely beautiful Samantha. The sleeves are perfect, love the fabric and the style of the dress. I also loved how you did this video and the music. You had me giggling many times, particularly the parting of the seam on your pants. I hope you have a fabulous week. Xx ❤️🌺
Thank you very much Lenore! This was a special fabric and dress pattern so I really tried hard to do the make justice. Thank you for letting me know that you liked the style of video too. I’m experimenting as I get (slightly!!) more technically proficient so it’s really helpful to hear feedback … working in a vacuum as I do!! Yes the crotch seam 🙄 I’m not sure it was a good thing or not that I was wearing a pair of ‘big girls’ knickers / granny pants beneath!! 😆💐xx
This dress turned out so pretty! The butterfly sleeves are amazing 🦋 You look so lovely in it 🩷 I just love how you share the process as well. Something that I felt really added a nice touch was the butterfly themed artwork in the transitions! 🦋 Your videos are just such a delight in so many ways
Thank you so much Katie! I’m never sure how much of the sewing process to share (without starting to bore people!) so that’s really helpful to know. And thank you for noticing the butterfly themed artwork! It took me ages to do and afterwards I wondered if anyone even noticed it. So I’m very glad that you did 😃 Your support and encouragement means a lot to me, thank you 💝💐
Thank you very much! I’m so pleased you think so. I actually think the dress looks more authentic - my original late 30s dresses all have rather A-line skirts. So I was disappointed at first not to be able to create the pattern faithfully but ultimately quite happy. Thank you very much for your support 💗💐
Absolutely gorgeous!!! I'm excited to try out the butterfly sleeves. I have some thread nightmare stories! One is due to buying thread from an estate sale. No more cotton thread for this girl! ❤❤❤❤
Thank you very much Lizzie! The butterfly sleeves are such a simple idea but so pretty. Yes, no more cheap thread for me either. The awful thing is that this snapping thread was super expensive pure silk dressmaking thread. (The shop must have put out old stock … grrrr) 💕💕💕
This is a gorgeous dress, Samantha!! The fabric is beautiful and the butterfly sleeves are so impressive!! Yes, it looks perfect in the cottage garden. Thanks for sharing your vintage makes PS. I live in the states where we call them snaps but I much prefer the onomatopoeia “poppers”.
I’m so pleased you like it - I know you love 30s dresses! I truly thought the butterfly sleeves might be more tricky or not look like the illustration … but they worked first time without a struggle! I love onomatopoeia in words too. Also, as I’ve called them poppers all my life, I have to remember to call them snaps for Americans. I’m gradually learning American! Thank you so much for your encouragement 💗💐
I’m so pleased you like it - I think the pattern and fabric were meant to be together. You make a good point about a shirring foot with my old sewing machine accessories. For some months now (off and on!) I am working out what all those feet do. I’m hoping to make more use of them in future!
Gorgeous dress!! I love the butterfly sleeves and the belt buckle you chose is perfect. You look very petite in the videos, that is a good thing because you were able to make the dress with the amount of fabric you had. I am going to try making the sleeves on another bodice pattern.
I’m so pleased that you’re going to create the sleeves. There’s no reason they couldn’t be added to all sorts of bodice patterns (I thought I might do this myself!) Yes, vintage patterns are great for me fit-wise whereas modern grading swamps, especially at the shoulders. I’d never thought but you’re right - it is useful for being able to get a dress from a limited amount of fabric too! Thank you very much for your support 💐
Good lord, this pattern is not for the faint hearted 😲 What a challenge, even with your expert skills which you certainly needed with eeking out the fabric. I don't think the slimmer skirt detracts at all, do you? The bodice and sleeves are so epic 🦋 🦋 🦋 and Oh my 💘 that print!!! You've really done it justice 😊 Another giggle packed episode my ducky 🤭 get those secateurs out, that big shrub could be the death of you!!! 'Woman found mangled under a garden bush' Detectives puzzle over the discovery of a young woman partially buried under shrubbery in a sleepy west country village. She was found dressed in the style of a character from a Miss Marple murder mystery and foul play is suspected.
@@rowanhughes8682 Can you believe the massive jasmine that reached out to grab me with its tentacles was once one of those tiny M and S pot plants?! It was given to me as a gift and soon looked sickly and on its last legs. I planted it in the flowerbed expecting to see no more of it… but it loved life out there. Honestly I’m always going at it with the secateurs. It just encourages it more 😆 Of course I love the idea of looking like the heroine of a Miss Marple mystery. It’s the look I go for! Thank you for appreciating the fabric - it’s one of the best 30s ones I’ve seen 😃xx
Amazing! You've inadvertently given poor sickly jasmine the home of its dreams! It's rewarding you with lots of luscious growth!!! Yes indeed, the print is truly incredible 💙🦋💙 what a find!!!
Hi Samantha! I'm sorry to hear about your frustrating/disappointing silk thread. It's funny how sewing brings us so much joy, but at the same time (like with the thread and slippy slidey rayon) it can bring us so much frustration 🥴😊🤣. What an interesting construction for the front bodice. I'd love to study the line drawings and pattern pieces. As usual you have chosen the absolute perfect belt buckle. So pretty... 😍 The dress turned out so gorgeous. I don't even feel it misses the fuller skirt at all. I love it! 🩵💚💙🩷 Those sleeves are fantastic!
Hi Laura! Yes, sewing is like a soap opera of highs and lows and never being quite certain how the story will end! I decided I didn’t mind the skirt being only a third as full as it should have been either. It makes the dress look a bit more wartime as opposed to mid 30s but that’s not a problem. I’ll put the bodice pattern piece I traced onto my Ko fi page too if you’d like to see it. I’m away from home at the moment but I’ll get it up by the weekend. I’m so pleased you like the dress and the sleeves, and thank you very much for watching another sewing epic! 💗💐
That is the cutest dress ❤ and it looks as it was ment to be made as a a-line skirt. Great work and thanks a lot for the butterfly sleeve step by step. I will be making it at one point - just have to sew the two dresses that are allready cut, and a bathingsuit for me and my daughter, and all the other projekts that are first in line 😂 I do apreciate vintage fabric, but I do awoid vintage thread and vintage elastic....
Vintage elastic! I hadn’t thought. I’ve had elastic in my stash for so long I imagine it has become vintage!! 😆 I totally understand about the vast to do list of sewing projects! Somehow our ideas and plans out perform our ability to actually get things finished! 💐
The culottes are beautiful but the seam ripping while you were out😭😭😭! This dress definitely sounded like a challenging make but the butterfly sleeves are so pretty it feels worth it haha!
The seam ripping has cured me of buying thread on the cheap at car boot fairs! Thank you about the dress, I think the 30s fabric is so pretty. Then with the butterfly sleeves … and of course I will forget the hours of sewing struggle (in time!… not yet!!) 😆💐
Delightful as always! Lovely dress! And how kind of you to share the pattern. I too, just finished a 40s dress out of vintage fabric where the largest scrap left was the size of my palm. 😬
Thank you very much! I know this is a statement of the obvious but it’s amazing the difference that vintage narrow fabric widths make! 😆 So pleased you like the dress and the sleeve pattern piece 💐
Thank you very much! I didn’t make them as sadly I’ve yet to learn to crochet! They are true vintage from the 1940s. There are crochet patterns for gloves like these available (if you can crochet!) 💐
I can’t think that it is normal with silk thread as otherwise how could anyone sew with it if it snaps as soon as you give it a tug?! I think it hung around in the shop too long because it was expensive and therefore began to disintegrate. Either that or the shop bought it on the cheap!
