The Sew Weekly Challenge, Theme: Make This Look

We are at week 3 already! This theme is Make This Look. 

Hope all you Aussies are staying cool, its been hot! Even hottor in a polyester dress....

so here is my Sew Weekly post:

The “Master Mixologist” Dress

The Facts

Fabric:Baby Blue polyester from a garage sale $2. Baby blue cotton sheet for lining in stash.
Pattern: New Look 6968 $7.50
Year:  Contemporary
Notions : 1 x 21″ zip, in stash.
Time to complete: 7 hours
First worn:  January 2012
Wear again? Yes, When the weather gets cooler, much cooler!

Total Cost: ~$10

When I first saw this weeks theme I said to myself, my ‘Buttons‘ dress could have worked here as the ‘The Baba-blue Dress‘!

So now to choose a new dress…I was tossing up between When the Night Comes Dress and Master Mixologist Dress. I sat down to go through my patterns and the Make this Look range while Glee was on (I just LOVE Glee) when I spied Ms Pillsbury in the Master Mixologist Dress and the choice was made for me!

The pattern is very simple and easy to follow. The instruction for the invisible zip just confused me so I used the Colette Patterns Zip tutorial. Thinking about it now I should have done the invisible zip with facing! I would have covered the fact that the only zip i could use was orange!

The front bow was the only part I had any problems with. The first time I cut it out, as per Mena’s instructions I made it too short, the second time it was sill too short, even with 5cm extra! Now I had run out of fabric…. S#@t! After scratching my head and kicking a few things I went to bed. The next day I grabbed both of the bow parts and altered one into an actual bow. The other bow shape I tacked down into the basic shape of the lower bow part. Then I tacked both together, done!

I even did a blind hem, and I don’t like hand stitching at all!!

The BF was my camera man this week, we had trouble getting good photos! Inside it was too dark, even with the windows open. Outside there was too much light! For the next theme I think I’ll take them at night!!

Now on to next week’s theme and beating this heat!