Evenstar Designs

This post is a little late, but here it is. I went hog wild when McCall Company had a huge pattern sale. One of the goodies I scored was a reprint of an original dress pattern from 1953. It came together quickly and was fun to wear. I also crocheted a hair net to go with it while I was in the car on a road trip. Voilá!

After making Leisl's Dancing Dress , I was in a wild sewing craze, so I jumped into the sewing room, and came out with a 50's swing dress. Here are some pictures of the construction: 1. Cut out a rectangle. The length should be the length from side to side across you chest. The width should be from were you want the neckline to be down to a few inches below your waistline. 2. Pin it on the dress form wrong side out! 3. Make darts to fit the front more to come!

I can remember always longing for Leisl's pink dress when I watched the Sound of Music as a little girl. I hadn't seen the Sound of Music in a long time, so we watched it a few nights ago. That old desire for Leisl's dress turned into a need. Edelweiss patterns has a pattern for Leisl's dress and several others, (you can see it here ), but I wanted to see what I could do without a pattern before I bought one. I found a blue chiffon curtain sash in our fabric stash, grabbed my dress form, scissors and a measuring tape and got to work. I wish I took pictures of each step, but in the excitement of the moment, pictures were not a high priority.  It is far from perfect, but I like it anyway :). Now I'm going to try to write how I made this little dress. 1) I made the lining by cutting a rectangle for the front, and two for the back. I put darts in the front to make it fit, and sewed the pieces together at the side seams. 2) I made the yokes buy cutt...