This month’s make for the Minerva Crafts Blogger’s Network is an interesting one. I started off with a commercial pattern but had to drastically alter it after I realised that the white fabric revealed my underwear!
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June 15, 2016 at 11:40 am
What a great solution! The dress looks lovely and your finishing is so neat! the white looks great with your lovely tan – it seems to be a favourite already!
I tend to use slips – they seem to allow fabric to flow over the body, without showing my muffin tops! they also block out knicker colours – I tend to keep skin coloured panties as well.
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June 15, 2016 at 12:25 pm
Thank you! I get too hot to wear another layer like a slip and all my knickers are black – nude briefs are the way forward, methinks:)
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June 15, 2016 at 1:47 pm
I make my slips from silk, and err. they are very good at preventing perspiration patches on clothing too – not a lovely subject.. ! lol
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June 15, 2016 at 1:03 pm
Love your white dress – breezy and beautiful! Very clever adjustments, Sheila. Looks to be the perfect summer dress for so many occasions!
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June 15, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Thank you – it’s already proving to be a favourite as you can see! Worth the headache trying to work out how to make three layers work.
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June 15, 2016 at 8:28 pm
Lovely solution for you! Have been eager to see what you concocted, and wasn’t disappointed. If I had your lifestyle, there’d quickly be another on this side the pond!
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June 15, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Thanks Del, I’d quite like another dress like this in a different colour, but I now have SO MUCH linen that I don’t really have an excuse to make any more!
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June 15, 2016 at 10:27 pm
So cleverly thought through to a wonderful result!! Such a practical, classy and comfortable dress ~ smart for all occasions ~ Love it 🙂
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June 15, 2016 at 10:37 pm
Thanks Caren, it does actually feel quite smart for a casual Summer dress, which is nice – no effort needed.
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June 15, 2016 at 11:04 pm
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June 16, 2016 at 7:04 am
Oh,this dress is beautiful!! I like it so much and, damn, if your work always makes me wish to sit down to my sewing machine and make something nice!!!
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June 16, 2016 at 6:46 pm
Thank you and that’s a good thing, isn’t it?!!
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June 16, 2016 at 5:16 pm
WOW you look stunning, what a beautiful dress
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June 16, 2016 at 6:46 pm
Why, thank you Roma, so kind of you!
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June 16, 2016 at 7:25 pm
It’s all true x
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June 17, 2016 at 7:13 am
Perfect summer dress, and yes much better than the original pattern. Love your out and about impromptu photo shoots, you look lovely 😀
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June 17, 2016 at 11:00 am
If I’m honest, I wouldn’t have bought the pattern based on the photograph on the envelope, but the line drawing of the other version sold it to me. I included all those out and about photos because I’m amazed I’m in any! I normally have to remind hubby to take a few of me to prove I was there, lol.
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June 17, 2016 at 12:20 pm
I bet you’re like me, always behind the camera 📸 😃
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June 17, 2016 at 3:39 pm
Yes, otherwise no photos would ever get taken!
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June 18, 2016 at 8:16 pm
Looks so lovely & cool for the sunny weather😃
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June 20, 2016 at 10:32 am
Oh, it is perfect for the hot weather – if we get any now we’re back home!
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June 20, 2016 at 10:35 am
Yeah I know what you mean! It’s pouring down here in Plymouth, mind you that does mean I’m happy to spend my day off indoors…sewing of course!
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June 20, 2016 at 10:37 am
That’s true – I always resent the good weather if I have stuff that has to be done indoors!
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June 19, 2016 at 7:25 am
This really is a lovely, sucessful dress. I too love sewing with and wearing linen, and find white very classy in hot weather. The slightly translucent nature of the linen does make the layers work really well. I have skin coloured underwear for wearing under white and find it does the trick.
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June 20, 2016 at 10:35 am
Skin coloured underwear would be the sensible solution and I will get some next time I’m anywhere near a town that’s big enough to have shops that sell them! I actually also quite like the translucent nature of the fabric, modesty aside. This dress is always in the laundry basket though – that’s the downside of using white:)
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June 21, 2016 at 10:32 am
Came back here after seeing you looking lovely in the dress on your latest Sunday Sevens. I am in the skin coloured underwear for wearing under white – M&S do loads.
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June 21, 2016 at 10:32 am
Meant to say ‘I am in the skin coloured underwear camp’ but I’m sure you realised that 😉 I type faster than my brain can work.
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July 15, 2016 at 9:29 am
Love it! xx
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August 3, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Love the linen!
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August 5, 2016 at 9:12 am
Thank you:)
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