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  • Named Saraste dress from Breaking the pattern book.
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    Saraste dress from Breaking the Pattern

    January 19, 2019 / 3 Comments

    I already made the Sade blouse from the new book, Breaking the pattern, by Saara and Laura Huhta of Named clothing. My next make from this book was the Saraste dress. I love the frilly detail at the collar and I found just a perfect Atelier Brunette viscose fabric from Salapakka, Helsinki. Saraste pattern comes in three versions: a long-sleeved blouse, a shirt dress and a sleeveless top. The sizing goes from 1 to 9. After looking at the size chart, I chose to make the size 3 that corresponds to the European size 38 and the UK size 10. This ended up being the right choice for me, although…

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  • Red jersey dress for my daughter.
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    Designing a jersey dress for my daughter

    December 30, 2018 / 2 Comments

    I designed a simple dress for my daughter and sewed it up using pretty heart-printed organic jersey from Paapii.

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    Designing a dress (part 2)

    December 20, 2018 / 13 Comments

    Here is how the wool dress I designed from the scratch ended up looking!

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  • Sewing pattern design: Making the princess-seams.
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    Designing a dress (part 1)

    December 19, 2018 / 7 Comments

    This is how I designed my winter dress by combining flat pattern cutting and draping.

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  • Named Helmi tunic dress made of Spoonflower Cotton Poplin Ultra.
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    Helmi dress with Spoonflower Cotton Poplin Ultra

    November 19, 2018 / 3 Comments

    I was lucky to be sponsored by Spoonflower to test their Cotton Poplin Ultra fabric so that I could share my experiences with you, my dear readers. To test the fabric I made Named clothing Helmi tunic dress.

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  • Ruska from Breaking the Pattern -book by Saara and Laura Huhta.
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    Ruska dress from the new book: Breaking the pattern

    November 15, 2018 / 4 Comments

    I wanted to wear something designed by Named clothing to the launch party of their new book, Breaking the pattern. So, I made the Ruska dress from the book!

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  • Red ramie dress.
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    Pattern fitting and the red ramie dress (Lekala S4103)

    October 25, 2018 / 8 Comments

    I challenged myself to make my friend a well fitting dress that she could wear both at work and at parties. Lekala S4103 was a good starting point.

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    Rainbows and unicorns dress (Ottobre 1/2018 31. Viivat)

    October 17, 2018 / 2 Comments

    This jersey fabric by Shalmiak caught my daughter's attention at Ommel 2018 and she begged me to get it for her. It took some time to make the jersey into a dress but now finally my daughter has a dress she fancied.

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  • Sheona dress by Athina Kakou.
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    Sheona dress by Athina Kakou

    August 26, 2018 / 4 Comments

    I tested the new Sheona pattern by Athina Kakou. It is a relaxed jersey shift dress that has plenty of options and is easy and quick to sew.

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  • Sew over it Penny dress
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    Penny at the seaside

    July 26, 2018 / No Comments

    The local fabric shop had lovely new floral viscose fabrics and I couldn’t resist this tropical fabric. I had just the perfect pattern for it on my Sensible Sewing Challenge list: The Sew Over It Penny Dress. This is now my favourite dress pattern having made two dresses and the blouse with it. (Btw. They just published this former pdf-only pattern as a printed pattern, so check it out if you hate cutting and pasting pdf-patterns together!) However, I do recommend not snipping the fabric underneath your arms that the instructions say. You can very easily sew the side seams and then hem the sleeves or do what I did…

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