Elena Ho

I blame Fellini

2 years ago, I bought this 1950s vintage Simplicity pattern from Antique Dollhouse of Patterns. Only made this dress a couple of weeks ago while I was going through this Fellini phase and finding excuses to walk by Arab street to just look at fabric. Made some tweaks to make it more, 2010.

Worked on this over 2 weekends and redid the collar 3 times. First it was a pink peter-pan collar, because there is a thin pink line in my chequered fabric, then it looked like bad cosplay – like something out of a bad Hello Kitty nightmare. Changed it to white, it still looked too cosplayish. So decided to go with bias ribbon. The bodice was quite tricky too. Made countless adjustments to the darts both in the front and back.

This is Dixie taking a picture of Tammy taking a picture of me in my slightly messy office. Yes this is how we work roll. We cool liek dat.

Yes I know. The shoes were not working.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 at 8:16 pm. It is filed under Fibre and tagged with dress, sewing, simplicity pattern, vintage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.