A Pink Velveteen 1940's Dress : Sewing Vlog
A mid week vlog video! I have a few more of these planned for the month which will involve original designs, but I really enjoyed following this pattern. It was a great little two day project.
The next video going up will be about a 1940's blouse. Then onto the 1950's and COATMAS!
Also, I realize not all of my viewers celebrate, but for those of you who do, I hope you have a really lovely Thanksgiving! I'm especially thankful for the support I've received this year and it felt wrong not to mention it!
Comments (29)
Such a beautiful creation in cotton velveteen! As always, it's so enjoyable to watch and listen to your work. Happy New Year!!
This is such a lovely dress and incredibly flattering! And I LOVE your new patterns and will definitely be picking them up. A quick question about the gown: I saw that you said you wore it over pocket hoops, so would it be correct to assume it was worn with 18th century stays? If so, do you have any advice for sewing them? Or pattern recommendations? I've made three corsets, all from the latter half of the 1880s, but I have no experience with stays, and I am more than a little worried about the tabs. Any advice would be wonderful!
this velveteen might be a good fabric for a remake of the edwardian skirt
omg so cuuuuuute!!! Great job Angela!
i found your new mccalls pattern before you showed it in a video. i was pattern shopping and liked it and picked it and the cloak up
I love the result, great example of what makes 1940’s such a wonderful style period. Congrats with the new McCalls patterns and the drivers exam, good luck with driving your mum around and hopefully she recovers quickly.
Wow the pink velveteen looks so dreamy. I love how this turned out. I find velvet and velveteen so awful to sew but I love the look of it anyway. I'm excited about the new McCalls patterns you put out (and that there might be more)! I can't wait to use M7885 and ordered it from the website today. If the pattern doesn't say, do you have a recommendation for the undergarments for the shape of that skirt?
Yay! It was actually worn over pocket hoops! But the skirt has tons of volume, and could be worn with a proper hoop skirt. but the hem would have to be leveled/lengthened for it :)
This is just gorgeous. Amazing what a beautiful dress it turned in to. Good on you!
I love it! Can you make a mini tutorial for the hat, too? It is gorgeous!
Beautiful outfit, as always. I'm discontinuing my support.
i was just thinking you could dye the muslin and have two finish dresses if it turns out well
The whole ensemble is soooo beautiful!
*o* your dress matches my phone case i'm in love. You look so chuffed with it, which is great to see after the last week of sewing! And mmm, some more patterns to add to the collection...
Beautiful!!! You made it look so easy to work with that velveteen fabric! Hope you do a video just on that adorable hat too where you talk about your design process and more on construction methods. Love this ensemble.
Oh my gosh! It is so adorable! That is stunning! The hat completes it 100% ^_^
This dress looks absolutely stunning! The fabric just looks so nice and dimensional with the pintucks. I was wonderimg why you chose to do the bias on the hem as opposed to just doing a normal hem? Does it help with stabilising it?
It's just less bulky which I like for thicker fabrics! :)
Such a wonderful dress! Great job, I really like the construction of the bodice, those sleeves and collar make me so happy. And good to see you sewing with velveteen, that stuff's not easy! I have sewn pants with stretchy faux suede once, that was probably one of my worst fabric experience (stretch PLUS shifting velvet PLUS for some reason it was really hard to pin through? Although it was a normal weight fabric...) But maybe velveteen is the answer! Thanks for testing that out! Once again, great job on this dress!
I find all stretchy fabrics are hard to pin through. I think it's the elastic fibers? I recently made something out of stretch velvet and every stitch was like going through cardboard covered in duct tape. ugh.
So lovely! The hat especially! Great afterthought! For the life of me I cannot think why, but this outfit makes me think of a airline stewardess for a fancy expensive airline. It's something to do with the hat, I'm sure. But why? Who knows, but I love it!
I get what you mean! I think the monochrome makes it look like a uniform. Or like I should be advertising something. But I kind of dig it!
Girl. The end shots of you all done up with the dress, hair and makeup. GOALS. Stunning. I can't stop picturing you doing this pattern with a baby blue fabric as well!! Great video! Love your content! Congrats on the new patterns!
Beautiful color for such a lovely dress! Great Job!
Confidence will come with practice. I was not very confident when I started sewing, but with practice, I got better (Not up to your standard though). Driving is the same. The more you drive, the more confident you will become.
I’m not a fan of pink but you somehow made it work! I love the shoes, nice match. I also very much like the style of the outfit, it looks really great on you! Oh and Happy thanksgiving too!!! Mary
I don't like pink much but this dress is makes me want to make one.. for my little sister she's the pink lover;)
Omg I am so excited to see this. Must wait for WiFi, which is killing me!! It’s gorgeous.
Once again amazing work! I absolutely adore your midcentury day dresses