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ok, back to stuff i’m working on…
recently i started studying with sumie tachibana, a really awesome designer who lives nearby in l.i.c. she’s the real deal. i’ve almost completed my first project in class–a dress made from a silk sari that my friend sarah-jane brought me from india last year. the dress was created from a 1950’s vintage pattern.
it’s about 90% finished, i just have to fix a really jacked-up seam i made and sew in the zipper. it was extremely difficult to make. silk is so slippery and tricky to work with and matching up the lines on the fabric made it even harder. overall though i think it came out really well. i just kinda think it looks like a school uniform!
as a side project i decided to torture myself by making a similar dress with equally challenging fabric…grrrrr….it’s coming along ok, but nearly as neat as the dress i made in class…
February 9th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Hello–just searching the Internet for “1950s dress patterns” and ran across this. I love these dresses! They’re beautiful. I thought it really quite coincidental that your friend’s name is Sarah-Jane.
Cheers,
SJB