Friday pattern pick
Friday, November 7th, 2014
This weeks pattern is really really simple but I love the styling. It’s Simplicity K1609 – I got this version when it was stuck on the front of Sew magazine so it cost me nothing – result.
This was the pattern used by Hairy Biker Dave Myers on the recent Children in Need Sewing Bee, and although he’d made a hash of the other stuff he made, he did a really good job with this. It’s a sixties style number and the best bit is that it only has two main pieces to it – gloriously quick and easy to put together. The three versions are pretty much the same apart from one having a cute collar, one a bow tie one ‘going naked’ shall we say. There is a long list of potential fabrics on the back of the pattern sleeve so I think it’s safe to say you could probably use just about anything. I fancy one in a lovely tartan fabric for winter and then a crazy sixties style fabric for spring. Personally I’d want to make it a little bit bigger than shown on the pattern – feels to me like it should hang a little looser to look proper sixties – but maybe that’s me just trying to hide my muffin top again! Loose or not I think this is a lovely dress and it’s great to find something that looks so good but takes little making. Definitely worth a go.
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