1950's Floral dress : Following V2960 : Pattern Review & Vlog

hello everyone and welcome to a new video in today's video I'm going to be following a pattern but it does a lot more modern than the patterns I've been following on my channel recently it's based on a dress from the 1950s that's like 30 years in the future for my last pattern video and the reason I'm going so modern with this one is because this isn't part of my sewing two decades project instead this is going to be a pattern review and construction video focusing on the vintage vogue pattern v29 at six oh I've had this pattern at my stash for about a year now in fact I've had quite a few vogue patterns in my stash the last little while and I followed one of them over a year ago and made a video about it but that video wasn't super detailed they danced high time that I follow another one of these vintage about patterns and tried to do the filming process a little bit more justice so over the last two days I filmed the entire process of constructing this dress I've also included some board images at the drawers and some video of how it moves as well as a review segment where I talk about my thoughts on this pattern and whether or not I think you should buy it I really hope you enjoy seeing at the entire construction process of this dress and all be various bumps I hit along the way it definitely didn't turn out perfectly but I do think the finished dress is quite cute and before getting into the footage I just want to give a thank you to skill chair who is tiny sponsored this video and on that note I'm gonna get right into it and make sure that you stick around for the end where you can hear my thoughts on the finished dress now you probably seen a sit-down intro of me wearing the finished dress but in my time I'm just getting started so as I said in the intro today I'm gonna be following at Vogue v at 296 0 this is a vintage vogue pattern which means it is based and patterned off of an original vintage dress they describe it as a close-fitting low neckline bodice with cap sleeves gathered in the front of upper bodies started waistline flared skirt with reliefs pleats at waistline theme and front buttoned closure and to construct it we need 9 5/8 of niche buttons one yard of 5/8 of an inch grosgrain ribbon hooks and eyes one yard of fusible interfacing in between 3 and 5 yards of material I've acquired my materials so now in addition to the pattern I also have my fabric I also have the fusible interfacing that they requested along with cotton some white hooks and eyes I've got five eighths of an inch twill tape they call for grosgrain ribbon but I actually don't have any grass green ribbon that hopefully this will do and be adequate for this project but this video isn't going to start out with me using any of these materials instead I'll be using some very inexpensive quilting cotton to create a mock-up for the bodice to ensure this fits me before I cut into my nice or floral material the last time I attempted one of these patterns I mistakenly thought that I could get away without a mock-up and it would fit me pretty decently without alterations it definitely didn't and I really regret not taking the time to make a mock-up first so this time around I'm going to correct my mistakes and I'm going to make a mock-up and hopefully make a much better nicer fitting dress so I just opened up all of the pieces and I've got some of the pieces on the floor these are the pieces for the skirt and the waistband the button placement which I'm not going to be using for my mock-up the mock-up is more just to test the fit around the waist and the bust and if those are right that I'm relatively confident the skirt will fit so I have all bodice pieces out I need to figure out which size I want to cut out so I have the pattern in size number 12 to 18 though I'm usually a pattern size 14 or so it will up here it has the measurements for each size and though I fit into the measurements of the 14 at the best when you look on the actual garment and it has actual garment size me until that size 14 has a 30 and a half inch waist and a 40 inch bust which is going to be way too large for me so I'm going to make the size 12 if I need to let it out than I can but I think that's going to be the best bet for me so now I can go ahead and get this cut out from my mock-up material and actually make a mock-up and we'll see how this goes I just say how weird it is to follow a pattern that has actual markings on it got myself a decade's I've been following patterns that are marked entirely with perforations in the tissue paper so they don't have any ink on them and at first I absolutely hated it but now it's so what I'm used to that this just seems very weird and the pieces look very messy to me because they're covered in words and it just it feels very strange it's also weird because vintage patterns only came in one size print envelope so pattern would come in a range of sizes but he purchased size 36 to fit a 36 inch bust you would only get the tissue for size 36 so I'm not used to having multiple lines that I can take to cut on depending on what size I want the pattern to fit it was just a very weird experience going back to modern patterns after the vintage ones I got everything cut out so got all of the darts marked on 2d material briefly looked over the instructions I'm going to read through them a little bit more thoroughly later on but for now since this is mostly for fit I don't have to follow a lot of their information about the button placket and the lining and everything like that all I really want to know is the order of construction so they want me to gather the lower edge of the bodice upper front between small circles then I wants me to stitch dart and bodice front and then it wants me to you sew those pieces together and then we have some stuff about the buttons but you're not gonna follow my stuff got buttons and it wants me to stitch the darts into the back panels with artist and Stitch the back panels together so I have made some progress I actually got the entire mock-up sewn together and I did fill most of the process so there you know a montage of that playing while I speak or I played it just before I'm now speaking and I did try and follow their steps for assembling this too so he started by gathering at this front section then I did up the dart in the front panel then I sewed those pieces together then I did up the darts at the back then I did up the back steam then i did the side seams and then i sew together the facing and stitched it around the neckline I definitely didn't do this like how you're supposed to do it on the final garment just because I would require a lot more finishing work and I'm willing to commit to mock up so it's not perfect but I think it's a good representation of the bodice and it's going to be it good enough for fitting overall I think this fits me really really nicely it's pretty much perfectly through the waist and then the bust is pretty much perfectly fitted for me too which is kind of concerning for the majority of people because I'm a small busted person so I think a lot of people would have to let this out and make it bigger to accommodate their chest but for me it's fine I do get a little bit nervous with how off the shoulder it is I know it's supposed to be like that but it just feels like it's at risk of falling down so I might take this in by a quarter-inch or an eighth of an inch and see if that makes it more comfortable for me it's kind of impossible for me to film the back but when I have a resting posture it fits my back very well however when I do some motions it causes the back to gape right here I think I'm going to sew this back seam on an angle make it a three quarter inch seam at the top and if I made them an inch seam at the waist so it will taper down and hopefully cause me back to close a little bit more it was something I was more worried about I could definitely add darts and do a more dramatic fitting that way but I don't feel like that is necessary with how close the fitting is to being like perfect so I'm just going to leave it as is and make some minor changes when stitching up the scene the only big change I'm making which isn't even really that big of a change is that I'm gonna add a half inch to the bottom edge of the bodice I like how it hits me now but I don't think I'm gonna like it as much once the skirt is on it's five eighths of an inch shorter and now I can get started on the real thing which I'm really excited about so I just got all of the pieces for the bodice pinned on to freshly ironed fabric and I made sure to leave enough room the bottom edge of the bodice panels because it is gonna add that additional half-inch and I totally forgot it just cut straight across the bottom edge so now I'm gonna move piece four up an inch and piece two up an inch to provide me with enough room to probably cut the additional half inch seam allowance oh I hate it when that happens I had about now or footage of me cutting these pieces out and even speeded up and ended it down and still a solid couple of minutes long while I'm snipping away thought it would be a good time to talk about this video sponsor today's video has been kindly sponsored by Skillshare which is an online learning community that have thousands of video classes available on pretty much every topic you can imagine I actually worked with them before and taken several of their classes so I'm really excited to be working with them again for a couple of videos as I said they have classes on all sorts of topics everything from garment construction basics to more advanced techniques like embroidery and ribbon work and it definitely doesn't end at sewing they have videos about drawing and calligraphy and photography and videography the latter of which I should definitely watch given my current career path and complete lack of knowledge of cameras they even have a video that focuses entirely on 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pattern pieces and I just did not fabric to accomplish it but I must say I'm kind of surprised at how large the skirt panels are I really thought they would be smaller but they're really quite large they're meant to sit straight on this grain line which means they take up even more room if you look at their diagrams the way they recommend cutting the skirt out is having them staggered like this but my fabric has a pattern needs to go a certain way so I couldn't do this without the flowers being facing upside down which I didn't think would look very good so I ended up sacrificing cutting them on the correct green line to get my pattern so I'll be going in the same direction so it's not ideal but it's not a huge deal breaker either I think the finished dress is going to turn out fine so now I'm going to cut out the interfacing for the facing pieces five needs to be cut out of interfacing and piece number six needs to be cut out of interfacing actually just going to take the cutting pieces up and pin the actual fabric onto the interfacing I actually really do not like useful interfacing I just feel like it's difficult to wash garments that have it and I don't feel like it stays stuck as well as very nice like it - maybe a just perches really cheap use a little interfacing but I've really tried to get out of the habit of using it in my garments and instead use a stiffer material to back the fabric the reason I'm not doing that is because I didn't pre wash any heavier fabric and I don't want this dress to sink when I wash it and I've already pre-wash the main floral fabric a faux fabric I'm using it was from fabric merch and it's a very lightweight cotton it feels like a very authentic 50s fabric I'm really happy I chose to buy it so now I'm just going to fuse the interfacing into all of the pieces that it tells me to fuse it - so the interfacing goes to this line the three inch strip I made fits in perfectly so with a little bit later now I think when I last checked in I was ironing interfacing onto the bodice panels and complaining about how much I disliked fusible interfacing which still remains true but it actually went surprisingly well this time around I just fused it in within the guidelines that were marked on the tissue of the pattern and I also added the interfacing to the skirt panels I ended up running out of strips when I was filming so I do recut a couple more and then get those fused into position but now all the interfacing is done which means I have finally accomplished step one yay but what's a whole thing we can write clap or something so I can officially move on to step two which is gathering at the front of the bodice I realized when I was markings gathering points this time around that I actually gathered it too far over on my mock-up so originally I gathered from this point all the way to this point when you're actually just supposed to gather between these points but it fit me so nicely when I did it this way that I decide to split the difference so instead of following there gathering markings I'm gonna gather from here to here and hopefully they'll work out in my favor I'm probably also going to pin the darts into the front panel and the back panel just because I like doing multiple steps at once when I'm bothering to walk over to my sewing machine that might not be how Vogue tells me to do it but that's definitely how I'm actually going to do it so the darts for the back panels are pinned the darts for the front panels are pinned the gathering for the top front panels is done so now I can get to sewing some of this together so before I saw anything together it might also pin me facing it together I know I'm doing things kind of out of order but it all ends up being at the same in the end so I think it's fine now I have to remember to sew this together with 5/8 of an inch seam allowances I'm so used to half-inch seams it's very unintuitive for me I did make quite a few bobbins X so hopefully I won't run out when I'm sewing this dress I hate running out of bobbin thread fit project it's like a bad omen it's tiny ironing board time again so I'm just going to iron all of those darts I just sewed and I'm also going to fold the bottom edge of the facing inward by half inch it really do need a cuter cover for this ironing board this doesn't match my aesthetic and I think I'm very quickly going to sew the back two pieces together and then I will come back and focus more on the front panel so like the instructions tell me do so I went ahead and sewed this as a three quarter inch seam that tapers to me five eighths of an inch theme at the waistline like I said I was going to do on my mock-up and then I stitched a quarter inch away for that line of stitching to help secure the fabric I guess it's basically an alternative finishing method when you don't have a zig-zag stitch or a serger and I've actually seen this method used a lot on home made garments from the 1950s so that's what I'm going to do today obviously you could sew this as a French theme and add additional theme allowance or you could do it with your serger but I feel like this is a perfectly fine way of doing it so now I'm skipping back to step two and I'm going to sew the front panel that has the dart to the front panel that has the gathers I'm going to line the notches up and then get these stitched together it does say that you're supposed to be stitch but I don't feel like I really need to baste it so that's not going to happen today so everything is pinned nicely I'm just gonna go ahead and put this together so both of these have been sewn and I also did that additional quarter inch line of stitching thing and now I'm going to trim close to that line of stitching and then I'm going to iron the seam allowance upward which is pretty much word-for-word what they say on the instructions they don't say to do it with pinking shears but I have thinking shears so I feel like that's the way to go so it says with right sides together pin buttonholes three to right bodice front matching squares stitching along stitching lines pivoting at corners as shown slash along lines between stitching and clipping diagonally two corners it says match squares but I didn't actually mark any squares on the bodice so I guess I will take out that piece and see what square they speak of so there's the square on the bodice piece it looks like it is two inches down on the centerline and I did mark piece underline so I should be able to you easily add this to my bodice candles and something that I forgot to mention is that I actually cut open be like centerline of where they indicate I should stitch and then I marked that on some fabric using pencil so that is going to be my guideline when I'm actually sewing the stitching and some of the guidelines they up on the tissue alright so now I'm going to take this over to the sewing machine and I'm going to sew about and eat them an inch away from each edge of this marking so now that I've shown all of the years I'm going to cut them open on the line a pencil that I marked earlier and I'm going to snip and where towards the corners as well actually didn't read the instructions I assume that's what it wants me to do now I'm going to iron these so the apart I folded inward is actually folding over the seam allowance and creating the appearance of a bound buttonhole like this one and these don't look very pretty since they're very small when you do wider ones it looks really sharp because you have got width but you have the really precise fold whereas these are not quite square but they're definitely very blocky in an unflattering way but I'm gonna go ahead and get them done anyway so I got all of them done at least on the bodice but I have a peeve with this like barely have enough material to turn it inward I'm actually gonna do is top stitch around the buttonhole which you're not supposed to do but hopefully that will help keep it in shape even with the minimal seam allowance so now that I've top stitch them they don't look nearly as pretty but I'm just gonna have to deal with it and at least they're not going to fall apart which is good so now it wants me at two's to have the side seams between the front panels and the back panels but I can definitely do and then it wants me to turn in these seam allowance on the lower edge of facing so I'm going to do that as well I'll get together defacing and then I stay stitched the bottom edge and then I folded it and we're by half inch I also folded the top edges of the shoulder and went by half inch because it shows that in the pattern diagram next up that they actually instruct me to do is to sew at the top of this edge to the top of the facing and then the facing actually secures it inward which is really an interesting method I really like how they seem me facing to the front edge of the bodice which turns that edge inward as it gives a really clean finish and it's really easy to do in addition to sewing that edge I sewed around the arms I and I also it sewed around the neckline and then I clipped all of it the curves so it should turn inward smoothly which is what I'm going to go ahead and do now so I'm just going to turn this right side out and probably give it a little bit of an iron so all of the edges look nice and clean and then I'm going to edit what I filmed for this video thus far and I'm going to get back to sewing and working on this project tomorrow this is what it looks like now I think it turned out pretty cute I'm gonna have to tack the facing to the interior to make sure it keeps in place but I think it looks really nice and I'm really excited to get this finished up tomorrow so it is now the next morning and I started the morning off by sewing the facing into position they say in the instructions to just tack the facing to the seams so that I mean talking it they're probably there there and there but I didn't feel like that was going to secure it enough I just didn't really seem to want to lay flat that you can see how its gaping open here it was kind of like that all the way along this edge even after I earned it so I decided I would completely sew it down with whip stitches which is what I've done I also kind of started doing the aligning for the buttonholes and now I'm going to sew the shoulder seam and then we will be moving on to the skirt so here's one of the sewn straps and the way it's supposed to work is that you sew the top layers of material together and the knee lining is folded inward and you can stitch the lining pieces together to nicely finish the interior but I ended up folding at the lining pieces and worked by too much so now there's like a half inch gap between the front and back of the strap they being and try sticking at some ribbon in there to at least cover the raw edges and then whip stitching and be lining to the ribbon I slip stitched be ribbon over the shoulder seam so all the edges there are nicely finished but I have some bad news about this project the step after finishing these Straub is sewing it the buttonholes into the skirt so the buttons a guide or whatever you want to call it has these rectangles which are supposed to line up with rectangles on the pattern and I didn't originally mark these so I wasn't originally sure of the placement and when I was marking it onto my fabric afterwards I got kind of confused and I ended up working it here so the buttons are in the right position they're just further to the right of the pattern piece than they should be so I ended up correcting this when I was doing the skirt panel I realized my mistake and I also sewed a button holes to be longer but more narrow so they look a lot nicer especially compared to the ones on the bodice which are just chubby and not very precise and way too close to the edge of fabric the camera doesn't even want to focus on them because they're so ugly at this point there isn't a lot I can do to fix that other than completely remaking the bodice and I do actually have the fabric to do that so I'm kind of leaning towards doing that but I also have to get this project finished within like the next four hours so you think what I'm gonna do for now is I'm going to keep progressing on the skirt I can get the skirt assembled and get the pleats done and probably even get it hemmed and see how long that takes me and if I have time left over at the end that I'm gonna remake the bodice but in the meantime I'm going to sew the front skirt pieces together from the large dot all the way to the hem with the right sides facing each other and I'm also going to sew the facings together just like they show there it's been about 15 minutes since I've updated you and I've just been freezing long except part of it hasn't been very breezy part of it's been quite miserable a bit of an exaggeration but these two steps kind of confused me it says turn self-facing shoe outside along fold lines stitch from poles to large circles trim seams and then turn self-facing shoe inside along fold lines and press and that isn't a very difficult step and I actually think is explained pretty well you're basically just finishing the bottom edge and also forcing it be facing to fold inward so it's a really nice design it's actually a design I've seen done before with pairs of pants I've made and stuff so it's not saying that I'm that I'm familiar with it's just difficult to visualize for me but it's done now and I've also set up these side seams and I've turned the edge of the facing inward so that's kind of finished though the bottom edge is still raw and they don't tell me what to do about that which is kind of annoying so sewed the back panels together and then I sew the side seams so now the skirt is completely assembled it just needs pleats and a hem so it says to make pleats on outside crease along lines of small circles brings creases two lines of large circles based based across upper edges so I actually marked all of the pleats on to the wrong my materials I'm actually going to be doing these backwards I'm from the outside going to have the formation that they recommend so here and bringing the large circle markings from the pattern to these small circles from the backside of the fabric and then from the right side the fabric see pleats will be flowing in the opposite direction and going in the correct direction and I was really bad about clipping threads so I'll do some of that as I go all of the pleats are facing in the same direction on each side my mistake I thought all of the pleats are going in the same direction but they're actually box pleats so if you alternate the way that I'm doing them okay they're actually nice pleats there's just a box pleat at the center back can you take it back that method totally didn't work so now I have to remark everything from the front so I got all the pleats pinned into position my original method of doing it from the bottom side of the fabric totally failed so I ended up having to use pins to transfer the markings on the bottom side of the fabric to the top side of the fabric but they are done now I'm going to stitch across the top with a half inch seam allowance I just finished pinning the hem but the skirt and I turned at the bottom edge inward by half-inch punching then I turned it out by an additional 1 and a half inches and I pinned it down so now I'm going to plop myself in front of the TV and whip stitch this hem into position and hopefully it will be all even and beautiful it is kind of risk having it before I sew it onto the bodice but I've officially decided that I'm going to remake the bodice and I'm not going to do that until a little bit later on I'm gonna watch some TV gonna get this hemmed and then I will come back upstairs remake the bodice and hopefully we can move forward with all of the other steps also I don't know if I showed it to you before but I definitely didn't follow their humming instructions and they want you to baste close to fold trim hem to an even width stitch one quarter inch away from raw edge using long stitches adjust fullness shrink out with steam finish raw edge so hem in place press so basically they want you to use a line of stitching to slightly gather a hem so it curves inward and is more in line with the circular shape of the Hat some time doing this by hand I can kind of ease the material so it's not gathered but it's evenly distributed across the hem without puckers so I don't feel like it's necessary to do that stitch work and it's going to be much faster for me to probably do it by hand and try to fanatical that into being even so I Kapil hours later now and I managed to get the skirt hemmed I'm going to get it iron claytor on when I can finally actually stow it to the bodice but for now the bodice looks like this since I decided that I was going to redo it so I've got all the pieces cut out but I've made no progress in terms of marking the pieces or assembling the pieces mobi I can have it done within an hour but I think we all know it's going to take longer than that but right now it is Wednesday and it is 3:16 p.m. so hopefully I will be back around 4:30 p.m. with a finished bodice but again we'll have to wait and see I'm not super confident about that so here is my snazzy new bodice it's actually a little bit small for this dress form so it doesn't look that great but it's much better made the shoulder straps line up a lot better the buttonholes are a lot cleaner they are too far to the left but you know what you're dealing with it and no one's gonna notice except for me and all of you who I've now informed and I also put this buttonhole up too high though it is what it is appraised attempt actually looks nicer right now because it's on a smaller dress form but can you see how ugly these buttonholes are I think they're just a complete and total mess and then the ones over here are way cleaner so even if at a glance this doesn't look as nice as the other one or if it looks about the same I know I'm going to feel more confident and comfortable wearing this one that since I feel like the overall construction is a little bit nicer on that note we can finally move on to some additional pattern instructions I'm gonna go ahead and follow step 33 which involves turning view facings outward and sewing it the skirt onto the bottom I've now done up the waist theme and I actually had to do it several times they did get a little bit of puckering but now it is all nice and smooth and the pleats line up with everything they're supposed to line up with so now I can move on to step number four which is turn face things down and tack at seam I'm gonna do a little bit more than that I'm actually going to sew it down over a several inch length as opposed to just doing a few tacking stitches and I'm going to repeat this on both sides I can't do too much on the skirt portion since it's actually pleaded but I'll try and do a little bit I'm probably also going to do step 34 which once when I slash open the aligning material for the buttonholes so what's underneath this and I turn it inward by about an eighth of an inch and whip stitch it to the interior and then I will cut the basting stitches out from the bound buttonholes this was my first time basting down button holes closed and oh my god it is so easy and it makes such a difference it makes them so much easier to do so I've always viewed that as kind of a fiddly unnecessary stop but it actually makes the process way easier so if you follow a pattern those bound buttonhole definitely base the pieces closed during the process because it makes it so much nicer so in that note I'm going to do some tacking as well as some slip stitching I guess and I'll show you what it looks like when I'm done so it took me a lot longer than I thought it would but I finally got the lining for all of the buttonholes done it really did take ages oh it is time to sew the waist tape in and I'm a little bit bothered because the instructions they say press seam toward skirt right there but in all of the pictures they show the seam being upward towards thought Asst so I think that's what I'm going to end up doing and it says on inside pin belt to waist seam allowance matching centers and squares to side seams stitch through Center as far as possible so remaining edge in place by hand within one inch on right end as shown so this is the little pattern for it I'm just going to transfer all the markings on that unto the twill tape and then I'm gonna sew it in finished sewing the waistband in I'm still not entirely sure how they wanted me to sew that in but I ended up talking at all of the seams in the dart I'm gonna go ahead and sew in the hooks I have some white ones so they should match really nicely and then I'm also going to sew on the buttons and I have these ones from slim line gonna get all of these phone on and then this dress will be finished oh I totally forgot to show you the waistline that is a waistband and all of its glories so this is the finished dress it took me much longer than I thought it would to do all the finishing work on this it's really tedious I must say far more tedious than I was expecting it to be but I got the dress done and I'm really pretty happy with how it looks I don't feel like the saturation of the colors is showing up very well on camera but I'm gonna get some worn shots of it tomorrow you'll definitely see it in the end clip this video when I talk more about my thoughts on this pattern and I think I'm actually going to cut to that right now where I take you through the pros and cons of this pattern after I've had a little while to formulate my thoughts so that is the end of the construction footage but it's been about 12 hours since I finished this dress and I'm ready to share my thoughts on it as well as the pattern itself as I knew for the mock-up this pattern fits me amazingly well even without alterations to really close match to my ponte shape and body tight in the waist is pretty much perfect and the bustline is just ideal on me it's really amazing I've never had it pattern fit me out of the sleeve like this one and the back that's me pretty well too though I like the way this dress fits me I do have a problem with the design of the dress just in general I don't understand how these capped sleeves drop things are supposed to work they're very much patterned like they're supposed to be a strop but they fit very wide off the shoulder and they do not want to stay up the only reason they're staying up right now is because I pinned my bra straps to them so they've got lastik in them but if I take those pins out that's why they want to hang out they really do not want to stay up unless I pin them to the bra strap it doesn't seem to help when they pull the dress down too but again then it's sitting more on the tops of my shoulders rather than as a cap sleeve on the side of my shoulder it's also worth noting that I'm a really broad shoulders so I'm having a problem with the shoulders being too wide this is going to be an even more dramatic issue on most people another thing that I think would be an issue for most people is the amount of room and the bust if you give your anything over itby Rafik up you're gonna really struggle to get this dress to fit you I don't know what the larger sizes are like but that's definitely been my experience with these size 12 speaking of sizing just in general these sizes on the patterning sleeve are definitely not accurate to the size of the garment I'd really suggest that you pick your size based off at the my Germans printed on the tissue paper pattern as opposed to these measurements that are listed here because according to these measurements I'm a size 14 and the size 12 and pattern and tune up fitting me perfectly so based on that the fit of this on me I would say be prepared to alter this pattern if you purchase it because if you want it to stay up and stay positioned properly on your shoulders then you're going to have to add darts and alter the strap in some way if you have a larger chest then you're probably going to have to add more room to the bust those aren't major changes and I feel like if you are taking on a boat pattern then you probably have the experience to make those minor alterations but I know a lot of people buy these patterns and make the dresses without creating a mock-up without knowing exactly how they're going to fit them and I think you're gonna run into problems if you do that with this dress house I want to mention that the size of this vintage boat pattern is very very different than these sides on the previous vintage boat patterns that I followed these patterns are based on original vintage garments not the typical body measurements and dress form shapes that were used to with modern patterns that's all the more reason to make a mock-up with these ones that they might fit differently than normal boat pattern speaking of instructions and instruction discrepancies there are quite a few things that I found confusing but I managed to pick out just by playing around with it but if you don't have an extensive selling background I think you're gonna run into some issues in the fist however I didn't find any of the instructions to be actively wrong except for the button situation and I acknowledge that it was probably something that I did wrong but I found that so confusing and so difficult and I tried so many times he didn't lined up I just couldn't figure out what they wanted me to do and I don't feel like it should have been that hard though I do feel like the instructions for this are a little bit complicated I really like the assembly process of the dress in general I find that boat patterns tend to be the most intuitive in terms of process and the order they do things in is very similar to the order that I would personally do them in so I find it quite natural to follow them even if there are some things that I find confusing within the instructions as I find the shoulder thing I do really like how this dress is dropped it I think the way the lining goes in is very clever I think the way the facing goes in is very clever I think it creates a very nicely finished dress that you can be really proud to wear however the instructions for the waist down in terms of finishing are pretty much non-existent so though they go into detail of finishing the edges of the bodice and everything like that there's no such mention of the skirt so you might have to add a couple of steps if you want the skirt to be as pristinely finished as the bodice overall I enjoyed following this pattern feel like I'd learned something and I was able to examine techniques that they used and they drafted and those are things that I can incorporate into my own work which is one of the things I love about following patterns as opposed to drafting my own designs at the end of the day I would recommend this pattern especially to more advanced hours or to kind of medium intermediate seamstresses who are looking to expand their skill set because things like bad buttonholes you might not find in most run-of-the-mill patterns and this is a good place to practice those techniques and still end up with a wearable garment so this video is probably very very long by now so I'm just gonna end it here but thank you so much for watching I really appreciate it and I really hope you enjoyed if you followed this pattern before I'd love to hear your thoughts on it and if there's another pattern out there that you would like to see me follow them let me know and once again I just want to thank Skillshare for sponsoring this video I really appreciate it and I hope you guys enjoy what they have to offer through their classes so thanks again for watching and I'll talk to all of you very soon

Channel: Angela Clayton

Views: 616,898

Keywords: sewing, costumery, diy, tutorial, pattern, how to, vlog, dress, V2960, vouge

Id: -mpxqPllArY

Length: 34min 14sec (2054 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 30 2018