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Back in May, I signed up for the Simplicity Sewing Challenge<\/a> – I chose two categories to enter: Best Dressmaker, and Best Blogger Feature. Part of the challenge is to put your own style into the pattern, so I’ve been trying to figure out just how I’m going to do that.<\/p>\n

It took a while for the patterns to arrive, but they came in the post at the beginning of the month, so I’ve started on\u00a0a muslin version of the dress. Cutting out the pieces was interesting, given that I’ve never made a dress with princess seams before, and my ability to sew an accurate opposing curve tends to be lacking! But I’m definitely up for the challenge for that.<\/p>\n

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Tracing off the dress panels using dressmaking carbon paper<\/p><\/div>\n

The blogger category allowed you to pick a pattern from the other categories, so I chose the skirt. Originally I was planning on making the button-up version, but I decided that the zipped one might be a style I would get more wear from.\u00a0I do have an idea of how I can make that slightly different to the pattern,\u00a0but it’ll be interesting to see if I can actually achieve what I have in mind!<\/p>\n

So far so good – I’ve got the pieces cut out for the dress, and have started working on the skirt for a bit of variety. All I need to do now, is get a zip in the right length, so I can work on that part.<\/p>\n

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