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Posts Tagged ‘Kwik Sew’
The Lingerie Contest: The Completed Gown
Thursday, March 11th, 2010The Lingerie Contest: The Muslin
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Finally, a picture of my muslin. Definately not wearable. 
The Lingerie Contest
Monday, January 18th, 2010(Wasn’t that an inventive title?)
I’ve entered PatternReview’s Lingerie contest which started January 15th. I haven’t sewn a stitch yet but I have been working on the preliminaries (which I should have been doing before the start date!).
I hope to blog about my project two or three times a week.
Before the contest began, I chose my fabric. I got together a lot of potential fabric and trims, and tried various combinations until I eliminated nearly everything! lol I chose a purple sheer curtain (that was in my fabric stash because I liked the color but had no use for it as a curtain) and some off-white or ivory lace.
Here is the fabric, hanging over my shower curtain.
A close-up shot. The darker is the right side of the fabric.
The fabric is very sheer. In fact, too sheer for a single layer, in my opinion. It just doesn’t look good. I will be making a self fabric lining.
I’ve also chosen to use Kwik Sew’s Beautiful Lingerie to make a short gown. I was originally going to have sleeves but I have since decided against it, so I think I will being going mostly with “Gown A”.
Current Sewing Projects
Friday, January 8th, 2010What I’m working on now!
Sense & Sensibility’s Regency Gown (you can follow my progress here).
Kwik Sew 3480 Adult’s and Children’s Aprons. I’m making view B, although I plan to make view A as well. 
Kwik Sew 3381 I’ll be making view B.
Kwik Sew 3404 I’ll be making the money bag and gift bag first.
Plus, I’m still working on a discontinued KS top, Jalie T-shirts, briefs from Beautiful Lingerie, an unfinished skirt someone gave me (and that I must alter so it will fit), and numerous mending projects. This promises to be a very “sewy” winter!
Planning Session
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Last evening when it was too late to get into a challenging project yet too early to go to bed, I needed some light work to do. So, I pulled out my lingerie fabrics, trims, and Kwik Sew’s Beautiful Lingerie and started planning future projects. I’ve done this before, but some fabrics I want to use still haven’t met up with the perfect lace and perfect pattern.
I’m working completely from my stash of fabrics and trims, most of which are other people’s cast-offs, gifts, or recycled from old gowns and robes I’ve rescued. I call them “foundlings”. Putting them together in usable combinations is like working a puzzle (without the assurance that there is actually a solution!).
I still don’t have it all together and haven’t even figured out what my next Beautiful Lingerie piece will be (other than some cotton briefs), but I did learn some things. I realized that several pieces of fabric are larger than I thought and might even be enough to make one of the longer gowns. I also found some pink lace and yellow lace that I think look good together but I can’t figure out how to combine them in a way that looks pretty and appropriate for a grown woman. Do grown women ever wear stuff like that? Or am I just doubting because my style leans toward “understated elegance” rather than toward feminine frills? That might be it.
Decisions, decisions. I have no need to worry, though. I have plenty of projects ahead of my next lingerie sewing. Still, I wonder . . . Should it be a chemise? A camisole and panty set? A teddy? A long nightgown?
