Thursday, October 7, 2010

McCalls 6069 - colourful dress success

I love McCalls 6069 as do a lot of others. I used a fabric I wasn't sure would work on me and (to me) it really works in this pattern.
I have been a little busy lately as evidenced by my lack of blogging, but I finally have managed photos of this dress as modelled by me. However I have decided not to review it on PatternReview.com as I am still too time poor to want to think about it, so I will try and remember any details here about the pattern.

I used a pucci-print jersey fabric and made no alterations to the pattern. The only difficulty I had was in sewing the back strap on. I didn't get the instructions fully, so ended up unpicking it a couple of times and even when I finally sewed it, I twisted the strap! I have not tried to fix it as it is so difficult to unpick this fabric and I am hoping I can live with the twist. Now my tip if you are sewing this pattern and don't understand this bit of the instruction is to follow them blindly but baste until you see how it works. After you have it sorted, then machine-sew.

I do highly recommend this pattern and would love to make another in a plain colour. I have a holiday cruise booked for next year and think this dress will be perfect for that.

Anyway onto the pictures. I will point out, I added a belt as I think it looked better, but the belt I am wearing is a little big on me now so it doesn't give me as much waist definition as I would like (note to self - buy a new belt). The next note to self - spray tan - my Toowoomba tan is glaringly white!!


Burda dress/cardi photos up next...

17 comments:

  1. Very nice dress. Perfect fabric for it!

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  2. That's a great dress! I love the back of it. The colours in the fabric are fab too.

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  3. Love your version of this dress. I have the pattern too. Its on my Frocktober sewing list.

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  4. Great fabric and style. I am going to look closely at this pattern!

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  5. Love your version! I must get this pattern!

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  6. I like the fabric, I like the dress, they go together perfectly and look great on you.

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  7. Great dress and I love the print, it will be perfect for your holiday.

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  8. Love the print and pattern, looks very good on you.

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  9. Perfect fabric for this dress. This is one of my favourite patterns this year.

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  10. Love this pattern so much I bought it twice :)))

    Yours look great on you and the fabric is perfect.

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  11. Nice work Sue. The print is great and you picked a top dress pattern too. Thanks for the advice about the pattern too.

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  12. That dress looks terrific on you. I love the print.

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  13. A very nice dress! I love this cut!

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  14. Great dress, I love that fabric!!

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  15. Ooh, beautiful dress - love the style and the fabric!

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