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“Your take on a Simplicity Make”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

….it sounds so easy, doesn’t it? But just how can you show your individuality in a dress?<\/p>\n

I had considered using some unusual fabric – maybe combining two colours, to separate the bodice, waistband and skirt.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I should move the zip to the side and have a plain back.<\/p>\n

Different still, would be losing the zip completely, and putting a front buttoned opening to make the dress into a shirt dress, although the thought of those buttons has me breaking out in a cold sweat!<\/p>\n

I even considered taking a leaf out of a previous year’s winner’s book, and making the dress into top and skirt separates.<\/p>\n

In the end, I decided to try adding elbow-length sleeves. I dug out some fabric oddments and made a rough version of the bodice, using version C with straps. I drafted a rough sleeve using another pattern I had as a template, and stitched them in.<\/p>\n

Realisation 1 was that a boatneck style neckline with straps was never going to work – the straps slid off my shoulders almost instantly, pulling the sleeves with them.<\/p>\n

I thought then maybe I needed to go for a smaller size, so I cut a size 10 from another selection of oddments, but realisation 2 was that a size ten made the armsyce way too snug so that it felt like I was about to bust the seam stitches each time I moved,<\/p>\n

So it’s back to the original idea of a size 12, and I have just enough oddments left over to make another mockup version to check the fit before I cut into my ‘proper’ fabric.<\/p>\n

Wish me luck – I think I’ll need it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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