Sewing a {very last minute} wedding guest dress | Satin Slip Dress from a Vintage Sewing Pattern
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- This week I'm finally making a satin slip dress to wear to a wedding (and I'm limited on time!), making a few simple hacks to a vintage pattern to make it just right!
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00:00 - Start
01:14 - Fabric, Needles, and Thread
02:11 - Pattern Hacking Plan
04:12 - Altering the Back Neckline
04:53 - Laying Out Fabric
08:27 - Cutting Fabric (Finally!)
11:05 - Sewing the Dress
14:01 - Basted Try-On
15:22 - Finishing
20:05 - Hemming a Bias Cut Dress
21:59 - Reveal TIme! 
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You look very slim and elegant. You will probably be the best clothed wedding guest 👍 enjoy the day.
Aw, thanks! :)
Pretty dress! I was wondering why you put a center seam in the bias of the front and back of this dress. I drafted a pattern years back from a dress that I bought that was almost exactly like this one but the bias fronts and backs were one piece. I think that you will like it better without the front and back seams. I loved mine and labeled the pattern My Favorite summer dress. Your dress is just beautiful.
I agree, the front could have been cut without a seam but she definitely needs the back seam to get the proper shaping.
Probably because the fabric wouldn’t stretch in the same way on both sides of the body if the it was cut in one piece (since it has a sidewise but not lengthwise stretch)?
At 14:53...raise the dress at the shoulders. The underbust and back of the V will be better where you want them.
I think there is a reason the V-neck is not so low and the front seams go across the bust a bit. Maybe it's the best way.
That is really a lovely dress
Love your slip dress. It looks beautiful on you. ☺️
That blue jacquard was a fabulous choice of fabric. 🩵💙🩵
My family all chipped in bought me a hi-low desk for my birthday. It’s the best addition to my sewing room! I don’t know why it never occurred to me to butt it up to my cutting table, what a fabulous idea!
Thank you!
I love that desk! It is so nice to have the different height options!
Me too! I bought the Flexispot desk and I love it. No more back pain from tracing my patterns and cutting fabric!
Beautiful dress!
Thank you! 😊
That dress is beautiful on you!! Great work!!🩷
very nice! perfect for a wedding, looks great on you. i def need to review back with that finish...i love clean finishes...ygs:)
Lovely color on you, great dress, hope the wedding was fun!
Zip zip, fast sewing! Turned out well ❤
The slip dress never gets old.A few turks here and their or add something and your still ready to go.I miss my sewing machine days, you help are such an insperation. Thanks for sharing.👍
I really liked this video and the way you explained your process down to the needles you used. I really have not been sewing that long and am not really as confident as I'd like to be... but ever since I started teaching myself and also taking a few online classes, I've learned just about everything from RUclipsrs. I would have been a nervous wreck putting that shirring in the back, but it worked out beautifully. I know I'm always tooting your horn but you have really made some amazing pieces Casey. Love it.
Thank you, Cathleen! I'll take all the horn-tooting you want to give! :)
Beauty..you could be a bridesmaid!
It came out very pretty and looks like it will be comfortable.
With satins you need to press your pieces and seams as you go to stop the puckering. Nice dress.
This was a great video with helpful information. The dress looks great!
That's so pretty!!!
Very slinky 1930s-ish! Love it! Working on my first Brigit tee. It would be a lot easier if my machines would cooperate 😂. Two machines don’t like the fabric and my serger got a snarl. Oh, well, I’m sure I’ll get it figured out!
Gorgeous fabric and dress!
Love the dress! Looking forward to being able to improvise on projects that much myself. One day! Still got a lot to learn 😅
Thank you! You could do it! :)
Really pretty. I have and love that pattern.
You look amazing! Love the dress!
Beautiful colour, it really suits you! 😊
I just love this dress, it really suits your body shape and is perfect for cutting the rug on the dance floor at a wedding. Have a wonderful time !, ❤
Really really pretty!!!!❤
That colour looks amazing on you! The dress turned out great, you look very elegant as usual!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful job!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love it!
Totally fabulous, as usual, Casey! Really love the colour on you. I'm not sure if you've had your colours done, but I always think you're a winter. Maybe. Anyway... Hope you have/had a wonderful time at the wedding and get lots of compliments on your dress! I am yet to make a bias-cut anything. I'm a bit nervous about all the figure hugging-ness lol. I keep looking at the Soften Studio Lea Bias Dress as it's loosely hugging, if that makes sense. We shall see. Anyway, thanks for sharing! x
Thanks, Faith! The wedding was so much fun...lots of dancing :) This was maybe my second bias cut garment, but had more going on than the first one I made so I learned a few things that I might do differently next time! And I want to try it in a linen, i think that would be so nice.
Lovely!
I love the dress. I have my step son’s wedding in the fall, you have inspired me to try and make this
That dress looks fabulous on you and the color is beautiful. Great job Casey! Glad you stuck with that pattern! Bravo and have fun at the wedding! 👏🏼
Thank you so much!
I cracked up when you were measuring the hem from the floor because I wouldn't be able to do that in my 1910 house--there isn't a level floor in it!
beautiful!
Wow - what an amazing colour on you! So pretty. And looks really comfy to dance in!
Thank you, Paula Jean! :)
Nice work 👩🌾👩🌾👩🌾
Beautiful
Gorgeous color on you!
Gorgeous
Thank you!
How fun. By the way, I like your table.
Very nice. 😊
Bias-cut designs are very unique in their construction and choice of fabric. I have seen vintage slip dresses, and read vintage Vogue designer patterns that shed a lot of light on the process. The fabric is best if it is slinky but fairly substantial .. silk charmeuse medium-heavy. Too stretchy or unbalanced stretch in different directions is a problem. The Vogue patterns add 1-1/5 inches to the seam allowances! You can't predict what will happen with hanging. A friend is necessary for the final try-on and hem levelling. I am not sure how best to store to avoid further distortion. Suitable fabric will behave better. Having said all that, the dress is terrific on you and the colour is particularly great at night.
I took a risk with the stretch satin and I definitely agree with all the points you made! It wasn't as forgiving in those seams and I learned a lot through this process. I may have to revisit the project with a better, non-stretch satin (I saw some viscose satin on the Mood Fabrics website that looks beautiful!). I actually could have just cut this dress on-grain, in hindsight, and taken advantage of the stretch already in the fabric (and avoided that pesky center front seam!). Thank you for the tips and kind words!
Beauifullll dress !! I am about making the brown linen dress you made a few weeks ago. 😎🐕🦺🐈⬛
Awesome!! :)
OMG your DOG! Kind of a fluffy pug...is this a puggle? I am smitten.
He's a shih tzu and he's the BEST! 🥰
@PatternScout A shih tzu? I always thought he was something really exotic, lol. He's so cute - I love it when you put him on camera. 😊
Beautiful dress! I just picked up a black jacquard and seeing your dress I want to make one with this fabric. But my width isn’t enough to cut on the bias I don’t think. I’ll have to finagle it somehow.
Very nice. Maybe it could be better if you cut the front piece as one so you do not have the problem with the seam. Hope you understand what i mean.
The whole time i was thinking, a gigantic bastidor would be great to keep that fabric from shifting 😅
I was really distracted by those cute beige linen(?) pants you were wearing! Chic and comfy - did you make them? 😊
I did! Those are the McCall's 8221 shorts pattern lengthened into pants. Such a great, simple pattern!
@@PatternScout yay! I have that pattern - I'm going to copy yours exactly, if that's alright.😅 😉
I hope you do not mind but what type of dog do you have = he/she is so cute.
Not at all! He is a shih tzu (we think) and he is the absolutely best little buddy ever :)
What’s the exact pen you are using?
I've linked it in the description, but it is the Dritz Heat Erase fabric pen 🙌 the best!
The Amazon ones don’t work, btw. I’ll have to look for the Dritz version!
Beautiful dress and you look so sophisticated color wonderful. Learned something new about letting the dress hang awhile before hemming. Thanks for the tip.
Hi Casey! I’m really enjoying your videos. They’re really helping me to learn what I need to in order to start making some of my own clothes. Quick question….Do you have a video about needle sizes?
Although it’s a cute dress, I wouldn’t call it a slip dress. What I consider a slip dress has skinny straps like a slip. I would call your dress more of a sheath.
Very tacky type of dress for a wedding. Ok for the beach.
Balderdash! What a rude thing to say, especially when you have no clue about this particular wedding.
Beautiful dress!