Sewing summer dresses in winter: my Resort Collection Part III
Here is the third and last part of my Resort Collection. After the RED and the WHITE, here are the BLUE dresses. Sewing a Lune dress by French Poetry in cotton chambray Pattern: this is the Lune dress by French Poetry. I had this pattern in my stash for ages but was really put off […]
Read MoreSewing summer dresses in winter: my Resort Collection Part II
After the RED part of my Resort Collection, here come the WHITE dresses – never compatible with suncream but so pretty in the sun… Sewing the V9327 dress in broderie anglaise Pattern: yet another version of V9357 – I have sewn this pattern so many times that I have lost count, see here, here, here […]
Read MoreSewing summer dresses in winter: my Resort Collection Part I
This year, we were lucky enough to spend the February school break in the sun. But I was in a conundrum clothes-wise: I had left all my summer wardrobe in France, and in my London wardrobe I had absolutely nothing appropriate for tropical climates. I had no other choice but to sew an entire Resort […]
Read MoreAnd another” nearly Dior” dress: sewing a couture V9327
A few years ago, I received an amazing present: a stunning Dior handbag with a modernised Toile de Jouy pattern. I would never have thought I would get my hands on the exact matching fabric but I eventually did – and here it is, sewn as a couture V9327 dress, in a perfect matched outfit! […]
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