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28 April 2013

The punching bag dress

This past week at work has been absolutely horrible. Record-breaking awful. Ug. Actually the whole month had already been pretty bad. But this week, with my husband away at a conference, I just oscillated between being absolutely furious and totally depressed. Now, some people head to the gym and take it out on a punching bag, yes? I instead headed for the sewing machine.

So, this is my punching bag dress. The rest of the world knows it as McCall's 6278. And let me tell you, the poor thing has had to withstand some seriously furious sewing, I'm afraid.

Yes, I know, it is still missing a sleeve. In fact, I will also have to remove the one that is already attached so that I can take the dress in quite a bit at the shoulders. I must have traced the seam line for the sleeveless version, because it comes about 2cm lower on my arm than it should... And, that is not the only problem, you know...

My "furious sewing" has not been without consequences. Those sharp points at the hips are unforgiving, even if I had been in total command of my mental faculties. And because I was not, I also forgot to redraw the sleeve cap to match the 1cm I took in at the horizontal seam over the bust. And then I somehow thought that an inverted pleat at the top of the sleeve would fix it all. Not quite!

Despite all that, the dress looks quite nice on me. Plus I've kinda grown fond of it. I guess I'm thankful for its help.

So, I've set it aside for a little while. It deserves a rest. I will come back to it to fix those few things, certainly in time to wear it this summer.

In the meantime, and because I know that my woes at work will continue for a while longer (we are "re-organizing" you see...) I've now set my eyes on re-organizing the sewing room...

Wish me luck!

6 comments:

  1. Wow! It is challenging... I like the colours combination. I am looking forward seeing you in it :-)
    You are very creative and productive - I like your creations!

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    1. Thanks! I will try to finish it in time to wear this summer, and I will definitely blog about it.

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  2. I don´t know if it will ok to say this but I had a good laugh! I´m not laughing at the job situation, or at the dress, which I really like. The shape is so unusual and the colours you chose are just perfect. Red and pink was something my mum would have never allow me to wear together as a child but I´m completely fascinated with the combination.
    I was laughing because you are a great story-teller!

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    1. Of course you can laugh! :-) Half the reason I write this stuff is so that I can stop taking it so seriously and laugh about it myself. It's easy to get stuck on the bits that don't work, isn't it? Instead of focusing on the things that make my life great. Anyway, yes, pink and red. I've been looking at the wonderful color combinations in Roksanda Ilincic clothes, I thought I would give this one a try.

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  3. You have very productive furiously! I need a little of that, hehe. The dress is to be great!

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    1. Thanks Rosy! It certainly helped for productivity, but of course the quality... I should be able to fix and finish it once I have calmed down a bit. :-)

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