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This is the blog of Sarah Appleton, Textile Artist. Current exhibition Threads of Narrative at Kingston Lacy, Wimborne until 28th October.
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Friday, 11 April 2014
Poppy Power!
A quick update today to show off a dress I made last weekend using some vintage fabric given to me by my friend Laura (regular readers will remember her from this post); here is the fabric in colour:
And I used vintage Style pattern 2382:
which I had picked up at Lou Lou's Vintage Fair in October last year for about £2.50. Including thread and fastenings, the dress cost less than £10 to make! The dress is supposed to be sleeveless so I took the sleeve pattern from the coat and used it with the dress. I also had to make lots of adjustments as I found that the pattern was very big! Here is the dress in action on monday night:
(I also DJ in my spare time). As you can see, I added little heart shaped patch pockets to the front because hardly any of my dresses have pockets and I like to have somewhere to keep my crumbs and bits of fluff.
And I used vintage Style pattern 2382:
which I had picked up at Lou Lou's Vintage Fair in October last year for about £2.50. Including thread and fastenings, the dress cost less than £10 to make! The dress is supposed to be sleeveless so I took the sleeve pattern from the coat and used it with the dress. I also had to make lots of adjustments as I found that the pattern was very big! Here is the dress in action on monday night:
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Photos by Jonathan Salariya |
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