But, things are calming down and I am finding a small bit of time to try some new things. Here's my latest adventure, or at least the beginning of it.....
I was recently in Barnes & Noble and was looking at a sewing magazine, which.... I can't remember, but it had a brief article on a sewing book that looked quite interesting. The book is Stylish Dress Book ~ Wear With Freedom by Yoshiko Tsukiori. I opened this book and immediately fell in love with the styles pictured.
This book includes 26 patterns and has great photography. I love the way the book is it set up with 26 photos labeled A ~ Z. The only downfall I came across was the pattern pieces themselves - these 26 patterns are printed on 3 sheets of paper, front and back and look like a crazy, confusing, jumbled mess. Have you ever picked up a Burda Style magazine and seen the pattern sheets enclosed? They're overwhelming. After a few minutes of considerations, I decided to take the challenge and figure out how to work with these road maps of mass confusion.
After reading and obsessing over the book for about two weeks, I finally decided on what looked liked the simplest pattern to start with. I choose dress E. Dress E only consists of seven pattern pieces, but those pieces are on three different sheets.
Since I have never tackled this type of challege I did a little Pinterest research. I know you all know what Pinterest is, don't you? I consider Pinterest to be the new Google, LOL.
The first challenge with this type of pattern is getting the pattern. You could just cut out the pieces you need and move on, but then you are wasting all of the other pieces. Well I'm not one to buy a book for only one dress pattern, so the option of cutting out only what I needed was not going to work.
After first figuring out what to type in to the Pinterest search engine ( I used: burda pattern transfer), I came across a very helpful post. Deby from So Sew Easy has a post titled, Tracing Burda Patterns the EASY Way. It's very informative and I really liked her blog and decided to bookmark it as one of those to check back in on to see what's new.
Now in Deby's post she talks about a double tracing wheel and transfer paper that's sold in a roll. But I didn't have those things and I am just too impatient to order online. So I used the transfer paper that is sold in the fabric stores and a pencil. I didn't want to invest money in those things until I decided whether I liked this type of sewing prep work.
I think I may enjoy this...... time to hit up Amazon for the additional supplies for future use.
Here's the crazy, confusing road map of pattern pieces...
And here's my transferred pieces.
It's really not that hard to do.
Next time, more details on my dressmaking attempt, I'll show you the completed transfers and the layout. I've decided to first make this out of muslin first. If all goes well, I spied some beautiful linen at the fabric outlet that may have my name on it.
Until next time...... Happy Easter to all!!!
~M~
