Reverse engineering a dress with an amazing collar

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The whole last week was bitter cold, full of snow, ice and sunshine and I loved it. Being outside wrapped in multiple layers of warm clothes, wandering through the silent landscape. (Not so fun was/is, that our heater stopped working every other night and -14 degrees Celsius without heater is a tad uncomfortable in my opinion).

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With this cold weather I would be the right moment to present you my finish thick and long knitted cardigan: it’s weather appropriate, fits into the winter with its muted color and I already have forced my husband to take photos of me while wearing.

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But… (you perhaps anticipated this my dear readers :-D )

But…. I have this new dress which I only bought out of solidarity because I have ordered garments for my mothers birthday (you see my excuses to buy clothes are getting weirder by the day) and I love it. It was one of these lucky buys. Actually, it has a fit I would not have thought I will like on me, but since I bought it, I wear it daily (I must wash it now and I am devastated to be separated from it).

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The dress is made of a soft jersey like you would use for a sweatshirt. It is very wide and so comfortable I hardly notice that I am wearing something. But its fit is unusual for me, because it has a lowered waist and so far, I have tried several times to wear or make a dress with this waist-fit and they all looked gruesome on (in my view). But this time I am ok with it (i love it) and what should you do if you love a garment? Right, buy several thousands more in different colors… or try to copy-sew it.

So, here I am am on Monday morning sitting on the floor of my study and trying to reverse engineer this dress into a pattern for me to sew millions of times (you see I am very excited).

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As you can see on the photos the dress also features a huge white collar with frills and I loooove collars with frills or rounded Peter Pan collars. But as the collar looks daunting to me, I will not improvise it but use a pattern from fibremood. The latest magazine featured the blouse „Honey“ which has exactly this kind of collar. The only thing I am unsure about, if I should try to sew a removable collar (I found a explanation here), so that I can wear it over different dresses or sweaters or if I should make an attached one (I fear the real question is, if I manage to sew the collar with frills at all)?

Today I have measured my dress and cut out the front body pattern from an old newspaper. I will make the backside identically only the neckline curve will differ. I will omit the back opening as I think I will get my head through the neckline without it (I hope….)

The sleeves are more complicated (for me) to reconstruct. I will show you next week how I will work on this problem. If I write next week about my knitted cardigan, you will know that I botched the sleeves or the whole dress is a mess and I am trying to convince you it never existed. :-DDD

Thank you @crosheille for initiating and @muscara and @marblely for hosting the #needleworkmonday. If you want to see more beautiful projects with yarn, fabric and most of all needles, follow @needleworkmonday. Or even better grab your needles and keyboard and join the #needleworkmonday community.

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I can feel your excitement and look forward to it. Voted on behalf of the Neoxian paper curation team.

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I cheat when drafting sleeves and trace the armhole and sleeve cap off a commercial sewing pattern that already fits me. The armhole is the trickiest part and if it isn't right, nothing else matters.

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Nooooo my secret is revealed :-DDDD This is exactly the „trick“ I will try for the sleeves. Good to know you do it the same, so my idea can not be too bad <3

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I'm so excited for you, especially since my crafting mojo is gone these last days. Working a bit on two socks, but more to stave off boredom...

Have a !BEER

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It may be the weather ... I had this bouts of energy this morning, but the dark sky and rain is making me a bit tired (and that I was up very early to go to a physiotherapist session only to learn I have memorised the wrong date... it’s tomorrow 😱)
I hope your mojo comes back... could yarn dyeing help?

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Looking forward to the next installment of this tale! Good luck!

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Those photos in the snow I loved. In this part of the world we are melting.

The dress is beautiful, that is my favorite color. Hope you can deduce its pattern 😍.

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When I was a child, I made clothes for my dolls. I remember at first I had no idea where to start. Then it occurred to me to unpick some of the clothes I had bought for them, so that I could make moulds and make new clothes.

At the time I thought it was an out of this world idea, but I see that you do something similar for making dresses, haha. Good vibes!

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