Thursday, April 01, 2010

A Shirtwaist Dress for Clara


Just a great dress.


On a great girl.

(McCall's 4769, again)

24 comments:

  1. What a great dress! Clara looks so grown-up, too!

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  2. Just gorgeous. Very modern but very retro.

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  3. love her haircut! Clara has been busy growing up.

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  4. That's the Sweetest Dress - so feminine and flattering - and great colors for Spring : ) I love shirtwaist dresses!!!

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  5. I'm making a skirt (using your circle skirt instructions!) out of that fabric for my daughter. Your daughter's dress looks great!

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  6. Oh love it! Gorgeous! I have a dress like this and my friend is going to help me find a pattern so I can make one for everyday of the week. I wear it all day as my house wife dress but it is a green one. This pattern is FAB!

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  7. Absolutely adorable. Love the fabric.

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  8. Lovely (both Clara and the dress).

    Clara I read this in the newspaper (true story) the other week and have been saving it for you: a Sydney family has two dogs and a cat, their names are Bach, Offenbach and Debussy.

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  9. This dress (and the lovely model!) is fabulous... so contemporary and yet still so feminine!

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  10. this is absolutely gorgeous. i love the giant polka dots. i think i have some of this hidden away in my stash

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  11. Clara is so grown-up now! and I just love that dress ...

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  12. I adore this dress. Beautiful work. That fabric is to die for!

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  13. I just linked to this post today in a post I did about polka dots ~ thanks for sharing your creative talents!

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  14. Okay, I absolutely love that!! The polka dots go so well with the dress style, and it's a little bit of "modern meets vintage". Too cute, and it looks really great on her.

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  15. It's absolutely beautiful!

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  16. I love your blog!

    I've tried to make this dress too but am having trouble with fitting the pattern. Did you perhaps eliminate a dart when you made the dress for Clara?

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  17. I used the pattern as is--if I recall it has a side bust dart and a vertical waist dart, right? Without knowing your fitting problem I can't advise, but I do know we didn't fit the dress very closely, using the tie belt to take up the extra ease.

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