Retro Butterick – Done!

Remember that Retro Butterick pattern B4790?  Well, it’s finally finished!! First off, apologies for the rubbish photos – I took some with my camera whose battery then died, so I took some with my phone, but when I went to upload them, the ones on my camera had not saved, so only rubbish phone pictures, [...]

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Dresses – Books on and the Making of

Wow, I must be a bit psychic (that, or it’s a coincidence, but that’s not so fun, right?) as my new book (The Party Dress) was waiting for me when I got home on Friday. I read it cover to cover that evening and here are my thoughts (having only read it, not tried it [...]

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You Learn Something New Every Day

What I have learned today about Butterick B4790: • For a modern aesthetic or women shorter than 5’6″, you’ll probably want to make the skirt shorter. By 4″ if you’re as short as me! • It really is easy and quick to make (though I’d already done the mock ups previously and the cutting/marking last [...]

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Retro Butterick B4790 Toile & Pattern adjustments

On Tuesday night I made a toile of the bodice of the Butterick B4790 wrap dress.  It required a few adjustments from the original pattern: (What I didn’t realise at the time is that I somehow missed out one of the darts on the underskirt – with that correction, the underskirt/front bodice section sits a [...]

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