Craft2.0

I spent most of the weekend finishing up my goodies for craft2.0 on Easter Saturday.  Sue is adding profiles of stall holders to the blog daily (which means each day I figure out new ways of spending my money!)

Just over a week and a half to go and I’m feeling semi-organised.  This will be my first time at craft2.0 and I’m a little nervous.  But I’m really pleased with my product so that’s a start.

Blythe dresses will be on hold until after Easter.  I do have a couple more dresses finished to add to the shop, maybe I can squeeze in some photo sessions after work this week and get them in the etsy store.  I’ll try and get some pictures of my craft 2.0 goodies as well.

A-line dresses finished

A few weeks ago, I showed a preview of an A-line dress with inverted pleat.  That dress needed a few pattern tweaks and sat on my sewing table unfinished for longer than it should have.  Adjustments are all done and a couple of these dresses are now available in my etsy store

The dress is mini length  and works well over tights or even over trousers.  The inverted pleat gives it a nice shape and I deliberately lined it in the bodice only, so it would retain the triangular shape at the bottom.

Prices start on these dresses at just $12 depending on the amount of trim I add.  I think they look best in retro style fabrics.  I’m especially fond of this teal and green number.

Cate, my French Trench Blythe has become my go-to girl for photographing these dresses – there’s something about her bed-head hair and slightly sassy attitude that makes her look the best in them.  She does tend to look incredibly smug though!

This one is sold – I think it’s one of my favourite dresses I’ve ever made. I wasted a bit of fabric fussy-cutting so that the little piggy was centred in the pleat, but it was totally worth it.  I think I am going to have to try and hunt down some more of this fabric.

Another that has sold – more Japanese fabrics – retro mushrooms which at that scale give the dress a nice retro 60s look.

New Skirt

I’m trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and to sew things for blythe that go beyond the skipper patterns.  Today’s attempt was very basic but I’m pleased with how it turned out.  A three tiered skirt.  I wanted to avoid elastic so drafted a curved yoke and it worked pretty well.

Hopefully i’ll get a couple of these made during the week for the etsy store.