Saturday, 26 November 2016

Tartan Anna with a bias cut skirt


Just so you know, I flipping love this dress! 
  

The bodice is the good old By Hand London Anna bodice, and the skirt is a half circle skirt cut on the bias.  The inspiration was this vintage dress I found on Pinterest.  I wish I'd paid a bit more attention to how the lines are matched on the skirt centre front - oh, well!

 

 

The fabric is some polyviscose suiting from a seller called The Textile Centre on ebay.  It's lovely, and has a woolly feel to it; also, it was only £4.49 per metre. 



 

Everything was cut on a single layer to match up the stripes on the tartan.  I think I could sew an Anna bodice in my sleep, so that bit was easy, but the bias front and back seams took a few goes to get them perfect.  One side of the centre back zip got unpicked three times, but I got there in the end.


Oh, and I also stablised the bias cut edges of the skirt zip seam with some interfacing which worked perfectly.

 

As already mentioned, I love this dress, and it has been worn a lot already.  The fabric is lovely and cozy for the cold weather.  As far as I am concerned tartan is a neutral, and I may have found some small check Black Watch tartan on ebay, which is being turned into a shirtdress at the minute!


Have a great weekend,

Lynne
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  1. Anonymous26 November 2016 at 21:47

    Great dress..and I totally agree that tartan is a neutral.

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    1. Lynne1 December 2016 at 16:53

      Thank you! Who doesn't love a bit of tartan?!

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  2. mags27 November 2016 at 08:48

    Love this dress Lynne. I think tartan looks particularly great when it's on a garment with curves.

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    1. Lynne1 December 2016 at 16:55

      Thank you! I agree, the curves compliment the straight lines.

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  3. Ruth27 November 2016 at 09:03

    Perfect tartan matching. I've never thought of tartan as a neutral before but there you go - you learn something every day!

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    1. Lynne1 December 2016 at 16:56

      Thank you! I also think that red is a neutral too!!

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  4. Anonymous27 November 2016 at 10:55

    Love this dress Lynne. You have done a great job matching the tartan. x

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    1. Lynne1 December 2016 at 16:58

      Thank you! It's a bit of a faff matching the pattern, but it's always worth it.

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  5. josiekitten27 November 2016 at 18:10

    It looks lovely and your pattern matching skills are amazing!

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    1. Lynne1 December 2016 at 17:00

      Thank you! It's always pleasing when the pattern matching works out well!

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  6. colesworth27 November 2016 at 22:52

    ooh I love this, well done! I made a shirt in a similar plaid, one of my favourites ;o)

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    1. Lynne1 December 2016 at 17:02

      Thank you! I really loved the colours in this fabric.

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  7. Ruth - Nightingale and Dolittle28 November 2016 at 17:51

    I'm not surprised you love this dress - it looks great! I do love tartan, but don't sew with it often because I'm always put off by the effort of pattern matching - you've done a great job of that here!

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    1. Lynne1 December 2016 at 17:04

      Thank you! My top tip for tartan matching is to mark the seam allowance on the paper pattern, and match the lines to it.

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  8. Lynsey Jane30 November 2016 at 08:04

    Super dress, love the plaid fabric and the biased skirt

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  9. Hilde1 December 2016 at 09:00

    Gorgeous! Love the bias cut skirt

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    1. Lynne1 December 2016 at 17:07

      Thank you! I'm so pleased with how the skirt turned out.

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  10. Anthea6 December 2016 at 18:35

    Nice dress! Love the fabric!

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