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Pops for champagne dress

July 7, 2016 by Tasha 13 Comments

I wanted the first thing I sewed after setting up my new sewing area to use a particularly fun piece of fabric, because it featured champagne! What better way to celebrate a new space than literally celebratory fabric? Not that I reserve champagne for celebrations, because I do not. I am totally on board with drinking sparkling wines any day of the week. But I digress.

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This is another version of Butterick B5748, a reproduction pattern from 1960. I made my birthday dress with this pattern and a sweetheart neckline. This time, I went for a slight scoop neck, and I lowered the bodice the 3/4″ I had raised it on my cowgirl dress (a typical alteration), because it actually was too high on me. Now it sits just right. I went with a gathered skirt again because it’s all I had the fabric for, this time.

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One thing I decided to try on this dress was an all-in-one facing. I dislike neck and armhole facings as no amount of tacking them down seems to prevent them from flipping out and being annoyed, but in the heat of summer, I don’t love lined bodices particularly, either. But an all-in-one keeps everything in place, because it’s an armhole facing and a neckline facing together. I’ve done it on tops before (like last year’s 1950s sleeveless top) but never on a dress.

Basically, it was just like working a lined bodice… that’s just a lot shorter and doesn’t need to be attached to the waist, so it’s even quicker! I serged the bottom edge (I used orange for fun on the inside), and tacked it to the side seams. Then with a centered back zipper, the facing just got hand sewn to the zipper tape like I’d normally do with a lining. Now it’s like the best of both worlds: tidy and stays put like a fully lined bodice, but with a bit less fabric. Totally going to do this again in the future.

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(How much do I love that you can see the fabric through my cutting table when I take a photo? A lot.)

The fabric is by Bernartex, called Happy Hour / Toast of the Town. Sometimes it just takes some creative searching to find exactly what you’re looking for. I wish you could see that all the outlines are actually metallic gold! But the lighting was a real fail the day I tried to take these… which was a lot earlier in the summer, when my peonies were still blooming.

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I actually bought this fabric specifically to wear with a champagne-themed Erstwilder brooch I picked up earlier this year. The fabric of course is too busy to wear it directly on the dress, which means I think I meant to use the fabric for a skirt instead, but forgot by the time I got around to sewing. Whoops!

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I’ve been of two minds lately about nice and simple dresses like this, because on one hand, this is exactly the style and fit I want a whole armload of and can easily wear anytime, but on the other hand, I’m having ennui about them currently, and am super bored rifling through my dresses at home… although there aren’t many plain, simple dresses in my closet that fit or I want to wear right now, so perhaps that’s part of the problem. I go back and forth sometimes between ALL THE DRESSES and being bored with wearing or making them (not necessarily at the same time). I think every few months I cycle through things I want to wear, or make (sewing and knitting both), or styles I’d like to try… so I think I’m starting to go through one of those right now.

Although I have a bit of a backlog of items to show you in the meantime—shorts, those cheetah print pants I mentioned in my last post, a skirt from vintage fabric that’s been in my stash for ages… that may be it, though it’s possible I’m forgetting something!

We’ll see where sewing takes me next! 😉

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outfit details

dress – made by me
shoes – Swedish Hasbeens (via eBay)
champagne brooch – Erstwilder
Bakelite bangles – misc.
Bakelite earrings – Truly Vintage

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  1. LoisAnn says

    July 7, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    Love the all in one facing idea, very clever. Do you know the top stitch technique where you attach your facing and then top stitch near the seam line (very close) catching the seam allowance. A couple tack stitches near the seams should take care of flopping. This is how I was taught back in the dark ages. Love you and your blog.

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    • Tasha says

      July 8, 2016 at 8:46 am

      Yes, understitching is what you’re talking about! It’s a very helpful technique but while it keeps facings tidy while wearing items, it never seems to do the trick to keep them tidy at other times, so it still annoys me! And thank you! 🙂

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  2. Second Hand Rose says

    July 8, 2016 at 7:07 am

    Wow that fabric is amazing, I absolutely adore a novelty print! The style of the dress is great and very flattering, such a beautiful make! XxxX

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    • Tasha says

      July 8, 2016 at 8:46 am

      Thanks so much! It’s such a fun print, isn’t it!

      Reply
  3. Retro Rover says

    July 8, 2016 at 9:19 am

    Its a great fun happy print

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  4. Kerry (Kestrel Makes) says

    July 8, 2016 at 10:09 am

    That’s such a fun dress! I love this pattern too and am also planning to try out an all in one facing on a future project soon (not this pattern) as it seems like a good compromise between normal facings and bias tape facings, which are my 2 go-to options

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  5. Diane says

    July 8, 2016 at 2:12 pm

    I always learn so much from reading your blog entries.

    Reply
  6. PinhouseP says

    July 8, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    That is a real festive dress 😉

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  7. Jessica Cangiano says

    July 8, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    That is one seriously jubilant and gorgeous dress. Love it to bits!

    ♥ Jessica

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  8. Shaneka says

    July 9, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    What kind of cotton is this?

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  9. Lynn says

    July 13, 2016 at 7:33 am

    What a great dress! I have been a little obsessed with this pattern myself lately and still struggling to get the fit just right. Summer weather where I am is too hot for extra layers so I don’t do linings. I have been using bias binding but I like your solution too.

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  10. Anarii Hakala says

    August 8, 2016 at 2:22 am

    Love the dress and the matching pin!

    Reply

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