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Posted by Sharon M Hays on February 23, 2008, 9:46 am
BEI Design wrote:
> DGD needs a blouse like this:
> http://www.tartantown.com/blouse_DABL003.html
>
> with a convertible dickie like:
>
http://65.109.82.231/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=MK&Product_Code=01-004&Category_Code=HJHE
> for certain dances.
>
> I bought McCalls # 5322:
> http://www.mccallpattern.com/item/M5322.htm?search=5322&page=1
>
> This will give me the basic shape. It comes in a woman's
> size 4, so it should come close to fitting DGD (I could not
> find a child's pattern anything like what I needed). I'm
> going to use the sleeve from v.A, with the body from v.C,
> make the sleeve fuller and longer with an elastic casing at
> the bottom, place the opening with buttons down the center
> back, and alter the front neckline, squaring it off for the
> unadorned look, and placing buttons and buttonholes for
> attaching the dickie.
>
> But it's "close". ;-)
>
> The skirt is done, I'll see DGD Sunday and start altering
> the blouse pattern.
>
> Pics soon....
>
> Beverly
Sounds like a great plan, and that is close. ;) Sometimes you can't get
any closer than that. I understand.
For instance... My best girlfriend from college is getting married this
summer. Her fiance was born in India. (he's just a wonderful and adorable
man. I couldn't be more happy about this wedding!!!) So they decided to
combine all of the elements that were important to both of them in the
wedding ceremony. A little of this a little of that. I'm going to be her
matron of honor. (actually all 4 of us have duties.) For the wedding, she
got me a sari (on a recent trip to India with him and his mother.) And she
just bought the matching fabric to make the choli top.
She told me to make whatever I would like for the top and sent me links to
sites that sell cholis. So.... I'm using
http://www.simplicity.com/dv1_v4.cfm?design=6945 because it's close
too. ;) I'm doing short sleeves. Because I have this pattern and have
done it once, I know I will have to shorten it between the shoulder and the
bust line. (I almost always have to shorten there.) I am going to put the
CF on a fold, or just trace and redo the front so it's one piece. I'll
have to shorten the body of the blouse also since the hem needs to hit at
or above my natural waist. (I think at.) Then I'm going to put an upside
down zipper at the side seam.
See? I understand "close." ;)
Sharon
PS. She told me she got me the sari because that is 6 1/2 meters of silk.
And after the wedding it can either stay a sari, or it can become whatever
I would like to do with that much silk. She & I know and understand each
other very well.
---
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and just annoys the
pig.
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