{"id":721,"date":"2018-09-19T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sixmignons.com\/2018\/09\/19\/sew-many-dresses-de-tanya-whelan-ma-bible-pour-coudre-les-robes\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:50:46","slug":"sew-many-dresses-de-tanya-whelan-ma-bible-pour-coudre-les-robes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixmignons.com\/en\/2018\/09\/19\/sew-many-dresses-de-tanya-whelan-ma-bible-pour-coudre-les-robes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSew Many Dresses\u201d by Tanya Whelan: My New Sewing Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

The summer has been lingering on, bliss.\u00a0On the one hand it slightly killed in the egg my enthusiasm for autumn sewing… so you\u2019ll have to wait a bit longer for completed projects here. But the big positive is that I\u2019ve been able to wear again the dresses I saw in the spring, using the great book\u00a0\u00a0\u201cSew many dresses, sew little time\u201d by Tanya Whelan.<\/b><\/a>\u00a0This book is an absolute gold mine for whoever is after the perfect fit for hand-made dresses<\/b>: FBA, SBA, shoulder adjustments, lenght adjustments and much more – everything is covered!<\/p>\n

I stumbled upon it while I was looking for something else on Amazon – how very typical – and it has been an absolute sewing reveletation<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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I am a fan of vintage dresses with a fitted bodice and a floating skirt and this book offers multiple possible combinations<\/b>: with 12 bodice, 9 neckline, 9 skirt and 5 sleeve options, you would need an entire life to sew them all – or at least a full year! As I tend to wear self-drafted pleated or circle skirts, the bodices are of most interest to me<\/b>. Here are my favourites, directly from the book.<\/p>\n

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Not only does Tanya give you patterns for all the bodices you could ever want; but even more importantly she explains in details all the adjustments you need to make to reach a perfect fit<\/b>. I always hated started on a new top pattern, as I knew it would take me hours to do the FBA, without any guarantee of results – but not any more!! A few points which I found particularly interesting and which I was getting definitely wrong:<\/b><\/p>\n

– the bust and waist darts\u2019 ends should not sit on the nipple but 1 inch\/ 2.5cm away from it – that\u2019s why this bit was always at a funny angle!<\/p>\n

– most patterns are drafted on a B-cup bra size, you need to add 1\/2 inch or 1.3cm for each extra cup… I definitely thought far less…<\/p>\n

In conclusion, once I had read the book, cut and re-cut the pattern in all directions, made three mulsins, I ended-up with a nearly perfect fit<\/b>, so pleasing!! In pictures, my beloved banana dress:<\/p>\n

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I am over the moon with the bodice fit<\/b>: the lenght is perfect, the waist fit is perfect, there is just a little bit to much fabric around the bust but hardly visible to the uninformed eye.<\/p>\n

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For the skirt<\/b>, I made clever calculations to get a decent number of pleats on the 130cm width of fabric I had, without the pleats being too narrow either. A 150cm-wide fabric would have given more volume but I quite like it like that, especially with a midi lenght.<\/p>\n

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For the back, I put a (very very) visible zipper<\/b>, because those bananas were really shouting for It! As a bonus I did not have to bother about banana pattern-matching when I cut the fabric.<\/p>\n

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Next time, I have to show you Banana Dress sister, the Little Swimmers\u2019 dress!<\/p>\n

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