Tuesday 10 January 2012

A progress update and some fabric inspiration

A belated Happy New Year to you all!

Us gather girls had a somewhat frenzied Christmas break - a family wedding on the 23rd, a poorly toddler and a very poorly cat meant that the sewing machines went untouched for the whole festive period... I think a break is actually no bad thing sometimes, it means we're both raring to go now! And we've got something rather exciting to be sewing up too: our first dress pattern! We're currently testing all the pattern pieces - seeing how they fit together and making any small adjustments. The dress has a few different sleeve options so we've got quite a few versions to make up, nevertheless, it's a hugely exciting time for us and we're both pretty chuffed with the results so far. As soon as we're happy with the final pieces, the next step will be to get them all graded, in preparation for the real pattern testing. There will be more information regarding testing to come, keep an eye out on here or twitter if you're interested in helping us out with that!

Now we have an actual dress form to work with our minds are naturally turning to fabrics and prints. Here are some of the prints that are currently inspiring us, a little taster of what's possibly to come!

Andover
Premier Prints
FreeSpirit
Andover
Timorous Beasties
Hanna Werning
Joel Dewberry
Joel Dewberry
Timorous Beasties
Liberty
Andover
Timorous Beasties

2 comments:

  1. Those are gorgeous fabrics. I am resisting the temptation to look them all up online to see what other wonders are out there.

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  2. Ooo lovely fabrics, particularly the Libery and the last Timourous Beasties print...can't wait to see what you're planning on doing with them :)

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