Hi / Lo Strapless Dress Pattern Making Tutorial. Melly Sews’ 30 Days Of Sundresses Series
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Boy have I had a busy week! I went to Fabric Weekend and met about twenty new sewing friends. I laughed so hard with my room mate Mie from Sewing Like Mad. We all shopped for fabric, ate like maniacs, and stayed up late talking. I felt like a college kid hanging out with my buds and I miss them already! I could go on about how much fun we had but I’ll be writing a post as soon as I get my photos edited.
I came home to have to plan a family birthday party party for my youngest who turned four Monday, and the next day my older daughter was graduating from high school! Let me tell you having a child graduate from high school will really turn you into a bowl of jello. You will feel some weird feelings, maybe. Relief and surprise that you were able to raise a kid to this age without completely ruining her or losing her in a department store, sadness that your little girl is growing up and away, and wonder at how the years could pass so fast!
Well, I had to try to stop acting like a total space case, and think of a project to post for Melissa’s Sundress Series PRONTO. I had been having a bit of a creative block due to my head turning into jello and my big hangover from my weekend away. The photos were supposed to be sent over that day and I had NOTHING. NIENTE. Was I going to have to e mail my organized and super together blog friend Melissa and reveal to her what a California flake I really am?
I have to mention here that you really NEED to go over and check out The Sundress Series to get some ideas for your summer sewing. It’s a month long series dedicated to making sundresses. There are daily tutorials from a variety of sewing bloggers. Girls projects, adult dresses, easy ones, more advanced ones. Something for everyone there friends. Just in time for summer.
Below are all of the blogs involved in the series. Feel free to click on any name and you will be redirected to that bloggers blog. Aren’t image maps cool?
Meanwhile, Isabelle found some funky silk fabric I had been hoarding for some future project and insisted she NEEDED a dress made from it to wear to her graduation THAT NIGHT.
The lightbulbs turned on and off in my head, one of them popped, there was some actual computing going on in there, despite feeling really scattered, and I came up with this simple dress to make that would showcase the outrageousness of this fabric.
This is the type of fabric you either love or hate.I love it. But I was giving it up for my baby’s graduation dress.
It was 2 PM and the dress needed to be ready by 5:30. Could I really make the dress and pattern by then? Yes, and I did. It helps that this is a super easy project that any beginner could tackle. So there you have it.
THE HI / LO BANDEAU DRESS
The idea came from a dress I had already made in August of 2013, the Galaxy Dress. I had been meaning to write a tutorial for it because I had just thrown it together without a pattern the first time I made it, but hadn’t gotten around to it….
Here is how to make your own hi lo bandeau dress pattern and sew it.
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Beautiful dress. That fabric is gorgeous. Always more room in my closet for more summer dresses!
Sew Blessed Maw says
Congrats to Isabelle. Such a fun & scary time in our lives. She is beautiful[as is her new dress] and know she will have a great future ahead of her. But, oh how I know,
how sad and happy to watch that baby girl reach that “grown up” stage. hugs to you!
I am so happy to you girls and the fun you had at the get together. Can’t wait to see the photos..
Justine/ Sew Country Chick says
Thanks so much Judy. You are so nice. Hugs to you too.