Bias Cut Disaster aversion therapy!

'seamstress'!

"seamstress" to court and recoup her losses, legally? I'm sure Judge Judy would find in her favour!

-- Star love, Norma ;-)

Well, at present the plan is that they will take the dresses, including the unaltered one we are abandoning, back to her with the good one I make, and saying: Look! THIS is how it SHOULD have been done! I just hope I live up to their expectations. And yours, you flatterers!

Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons

Kate, it isn't flattery when it is true. I just read my post and your response to DH with the added part that you are immensely talented and you are one of the seamstresses that I aspire to be like. It is an honest comment, meant with a ruthful heart. I am good, but no where near as good as you are....maybe in a few years...of course, if things keep going, I'll wind up with more amchines thatn you but less skill .

Larisa, who at this time, > CNYstitcher wrote:

This link might be only news to this group, but it's on-topic. Those dresses certainly qualify!

I used to have this bookmarked, but it got lost a while back. Since then she has added the shoes. I simply MUST have a pair of wedding flip flops! They look like wedding cakes for the feet!

The dresses I have to rescue SHOULD be very pretty. They are a Butterick pattern, no. 3027. Their ugliness comes purely from them having been incredibly badly made!

I dont think I ever want to make anything bias cut! I can make clothes look good on myself by going slowly, reading, and pressing seams and following all the advice I can find. When people ask me to make clothes for them it's a flat out no. I *know* they wont be up to standard because I feel that I have to learn all about their body when I have only just learned how to create clothes for my own - and it's taken a year to learn and I'm only just catching on now! Bias cut *shiver*...sends chills up my spine!

Katy

In that case, the mess was at least partly the customers' own fault. They bought patterns and fabric according to the pretty picture on the front, without checking the requirements on the back, and then insisted on having it done their way instead of the proper way. It does not excuse the dressmaker's incompetence, but it does show, once again, the importance of taking professional advice *before* embarking on a major project rather than halfway through.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Larisa, it helps to have sewn for as many different bodies as Kate has! You learn a lot that way. I realized, when I was looking into sewing for others, that I had my own pattern alterations down pat, but didn't have nearly enough experience sewing custom for others to justify making that my sole business. I've sewn a lot for other people, my whole life, and luckily never hit too big a snag, but I wasn't willing to risk it, especially not on a set of bridesmaids' gowns!

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

I don't know if I mentioned this on this group before, but in the Out of Date section, the 9218 pattern actually was my wedding dress in 1970! And it was really pretty, too, by golly. I modified the sleeves so they had a bishop look, with a short lace sleeve with a galloon edge, then a sheer poufy bit between there and the lace cuffs. There was a lace overlay on the bodice, with the galloon edge facing the neck. More lace on the high collar. The dress itself was made of a jacquard fabric, which was very pretty.

I still have that dress. Sure wish it still fit!

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Thanks Karen.....I have done sewing for DH, DS, Mother, Mom and Dad...talk about a wide variety of shapes and sizes!!! I've done formals for myself, bidesmaids dresses (which fortunately weren't that difficult - AND they let me keep the leftover fabric!!...oh, they did buy the correct pattern sizes, so that wasn't a problem at all.) I used the leftover fabric to make yet another dress for a different lady to wear as a guest to a wedding......I think Kate just has temoundous experience adn talent (plus patence), adn am hoping to get to that point...think the patience needs to come first though...lol

Larisa

SewStorm wrote:

I thought there were some pretty possibilities in that pettern. Nothing like the horrors one used to see in the 80's, with a MAAAAAAAAASIVE butt bow and shoulders as wide as the Great Plains! And deeply encrusted with lace, pearls, embroidery and other junk!

I think my favourites in the collection were the three fuchsia pink cellophane efforts...

Am I the only one who can't get to Kate's site?? Waah!!!

It is! Hence one major reason to replace them!

I've been having trouble uploading the next set of pix, so I may have done something stupid and removed the lot by accident. Hang on, and all will be revealed! :)

Right! As of 'just now', DH has checked it through and all seems to be working fine. so happy hunting!

The first zip is just about done! :) I'm pleased with it. See what you think.

WAAAAAYYYYY better.

One down.... :) My son would give you his highest praise, "Really good job. You are a good jobber."

Sharon

Normally I also eschew the alteration option, but they were really desperate! It hasn't been as hard so far as I feared...

I think they have wraps (or were buying some). We did discuss stole type things, which would be very pretty.

The thing on my head is a pair of large silk and feather hibiscus flowers in a hair elastic band. Very frivolous, very silly, wholly me! ;P

Kate,

In the photo in which you're showing the difference between the original white stitching and the new stitching -- Is it an illusion, or did you opt for a very slight zigzag rather than a straight stitch?