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I posted the picture of "twirly girl" to pose a question...(and I will take down if need be, I didn't make the dress)
The red dress she is wearing is a vintage dress I picked up at an estate sale. It is the kids favorite dress. I've made similar dresses from vintage patterns...however, have any of you taken apart a vintage dress & successfully made a new garment from the dress/pattern? I remember reading about greenkitchen doing this with a shirt...I'm just apphrensive bc it is her favorite dress and its not in bad shape and I'd feel awful if I didn't sew it back up together correctly...what about just measuring and tracing and creating a very very close pattern?
any thoughts on this?
Also, I apologize for not getting all my vintage patterns up (that I offered in spring cleaning) I'm in the middle of a commissioned quilt that will be done Saturday and plan to put them up then. Oh! One more thing, have any of you gotten any emails from people not in the group wanting to buy patterns? I got a few from non group members, people who appear to be hardcore ebay sellers? I thought it was sort of strange...I'd much rather give the patterns to another seamstress, not a seller.
Posted at 3:48AM, 4 May 2007 PDT
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Hi, I'm nearing in on a project to make a pattern from a dress. I was going to sew it back together and still may. It's too small for me and too big for my sister, so my goal is to adjust the pattern to my size and take in the original for my sis. I'm going to take a bunch of pre-ripping apart photos of the construction. It would have helped me on the shirt if I'd done that.
I feel like I'm too much of a beginner to make the pattern without taking the dress apart. You might ask Angelina at Dustpan Alley.
I would save the patterns for people who would use them, too. Just seems right.
Posted 16 months ago.
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thanks! I too, feel like too much a beginner to just start drafting away :) LOL And good gravy, if something happened her to "very very most favorite twirly dress" I'd be lunchmeat.
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Thats a shame that people are scouting for patterns to sell.I get much more pleasure from giving stuff away and I love to see things made up that I have been meaning to do for years,much ,much more fun. Those patterns of mine are going to get scanned TODAY
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