A Dress A Day

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January 27, 2010

Am I Blue?

One more Heidi ... for now (evil laugh):

Heidi again

I'm not sure if the color really comes across on your screen, but this dress is BLUE. Blue blue blue blue blue. The closest I can come to describing it is that this is the blue that I assumed they painted the Avonlea hall:

a deep, brilliant blue, the shade they use for painting carts and wheelbarrows.


Despite it being probably not so good a color for a community hall on Prince Edward Island, I quite like it as a dress!

Here's the bodice -- note the lining which I deliberately pressed to show, for a kind of piping effect without the work:

Heidi again

And the same lining as the bodice for the pocket:

Heidi again

I have at least one more Heidi left to come -- I managed to cut out FOUR of them in one evening, assembly-line style, and have finished one. Seriously, at this point I hardly want to wear anything else -- they're just so comfortable!

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31 Comments:

  • At Jan 27, 2010 9:44:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    The blue is beautiful, but I wonder if it's hard to press, or just not pressed for the picture? Do they offer any advanced level sewing classes in SF? It seems like with a few tweeks, this dress could look couture! Invest some time in learning to make your dresses turn out fabulous.

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 10:04:00 AM, Anonymous Steph said…

    Hey Anonymous, instead of snarking about Erin's level of skill and pressing habits, perhaps you should just keep your "helpful" criticisms to yourself. I hope you're nobody's mother in law, but you've certainly got the thinly-veiled put-downs nailed. At least our lovely blogger has the guts to put her work out there for all to see, imperfections or not.

    Now that the spanking is over: This blue is quite striking, and I love your lining treatment and the fact that you chose to press it so it's visible! My own Heidi pattern is waiting on a table full of fabric and patterns, but when I finally get to work on it, I hope mine turn out half as good as yours. I especially like the beautiful fabric from Monday's post--it's gorgeous and really brings out Heidi's ladylike qualities.

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 10:04:00 AM, Anonymous Steph said…

    Hey Anonymous, instead of snarking about Erin's level of skill and pressing habits, perhaps you should just keep your "helpful" criticisms to yourself. I hope you're nobody's mother in law, but you've certainly got the thinly-veiled put-downs nailed. At least our lovely blogger has the guts to put her work out there for all to see, imperfections or not.

    Now that the spanking is over: This blue is quite striking, and I love your lining treatment and the fact that you chose to press it so it's visible! My own Heidi pattern is waiting on a table full of fabric and patterns, but when I finally get to work on it, I hope mine turn out half as good as yours. I especially like the beautiful fabric from Monday's post--it's gorgeous and really brings out Heidi's ladylike qualities.

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 10:04:00 AM, Anonymous Steph said…

    Hey Anonymous, instead of snarking about Erin's level of skill and pressing habits, perhaps you should just keep your "helpful" criticisms to yourself. I hope you're nobody's mother in law, but you've certainly got the thinly-veiled put-downs nailed. At least our lovely blogger has the guts to put her work out there for all to see, imperfections or not.

    Now that the spanking is over: This blue is quite striking, and I love your lining treatment and the fact that you chose to press it so it's visible! My own Heidi pattern is waiting on a table full of fabric and patterns, but when I finally get to work on it, I hope mine turn out half as good as yours. I especially like the beautiful fabric from Monday's post--it's gorgeous and really brings out Heidi's ladylike qualities.

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 10:05:00 AM, Anonymous Steph said…

    sorry for the triple post, folks--I thought my browser was malfunctioning.

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 10:21:00 AM, Blogger Dora said…

    I love this! I love all your Heidis. One day I want to make one using that Tetris fabric (it'll be just the right thing to wear to a Dress a Day fan convention...).

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 11:24:00 AM, Blogger Little Hunting Creek said…

    What a pretty dress - The lining as piping is smart too.

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 11:50:00 AM, Blogger Packrat said…

    Truly, I think this is my favorite so far!

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 12:33:00 PM, OpenID brocadegoddess said…

    I really need to make another one of these, you're right about it being so comfortable. And I get all kinds of compliments on mine. Thanks for the inpiration!

    I love this blue, and yes, this is also the colour I imagined on the Avonlea Hall (hooray Anne of Green Gables!).

    Although that print fabric of the second one is gor-gee-ous!

    Would love to see a pic of you IN one of these to get the really proper effect!

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 1:07:00 PM, Anonymous becky said…

    YES! please post a pic of you IN the dress! i've been thinking of making Heidi also, and would love to get a better idea of fit.

    beautiful work!

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 1:09:00 PM, Anonymous Pattern Junkie said…

    Love love love the blue. Must add this dress to my over-long list of patterns to try!

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 1:23:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Your site won't load for me today! I am so sad. I can only see a little strip of the blue dress in the photo. Weird. I'm not having this problem with any other site. Yikes. I'll check back tomorrow.

    Kim

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 2:26:00 PM, Anonymous Janine Basil said…

    That is a stunning shade of blue!

    I wish that dress would work for me, but I am such a pear it just won't at all... I'll stick to my full skirts :D

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 2:34:00 PM, Blogger Julie said…

    I love the "piping" and lining. Great idea! I printed out the pattern and plan to do a muslin for fit as my measurements are all over the place on the guide. Should be interesting!

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 4:03:00 PM, Blogger Joni said…

    I love to assembly line cut and sew 2 or 3 dresses at a time. I feel like you get a greater payout for the same amount of work.

    I love the lining-as-piping trick too - I wish I had known about it when I had less experience at sewing. (My linings *hardly ever* show, now that I finally learned about understitching. But on the other hand, I have never tried piping yet. So I'm somewhere in the middle.)

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 6:07:00 PM, Blogger alice said…

    Love the dreesses. You are so clever with the lining, and the gorgeous fabrics. But really, we would love to see a pic of you wearing one, but then I'd HAVE to make one too. I'm sure I could make it work.
    Great job, beautiful dresses.

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 6:20:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionpicturegalleries/7045344/Chocolate-fashion-pictures-of-dresses-shoes-and-handbags-made-of-chocolate.html?image=7

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 6:33:00 PM, Blogger Teresa aka MarieSews said…

    Love the blue. Love the dress. What type of fabric is it? It looks very elegant while also looking durable.

     
  • At Jan 27, 2010 8:46:00 PM, Anonymous Sheena said…

    I love how you add pockets to all of your dresses. Have you posted in the past what you do to alter the patterns? If not I'd love to read how you do it!

     
  • At Jan 28, 2010 2:45:00 AM, Blogger Vegan said…

    Great dresses, although at my size, I think I would need more than 2 yards. ;-)

     
  • At Jan 30, 2010 2:25:00 AM, Anonymous Jamie said…

    Just discovered your blog. Love the blue dress. Can't wait to read more.

     
  • At Jan 30, 2010 9:31:00 AM, Blogger KIRAFASHION said…

    Love this blue!

     
  • At Jan 30, 2010 12:01:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I love this blue too! Next to the butterfly red one. I love too how you add pockets. I love pockets.

     
  • At Feb 2, 2010 6:20:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I love your choice of fabrics and patterns -- what a treat these are. Was worried when I didn't see a post for a few days! Couldn't help but see the spanking Steph gave to the person who posted about the need to press. Because I am a faithful reader, I do remember that was one of your new year's resolutions, so I am sure you didn't mind. And I DID have a mom that got after me about that and learned (after too many years!) it doesn't take long and makes all the difference. Thank you so much for sharing! NEVER STOP!!

     
  • At Feb 3, 2010 7:24:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Can you tell me where I can get this pattern. Thanks

     
  • At Feb 3, 2010 7:24:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Can you tell me where I can get this pattern. Thanks

     
  • At Feb 3, 2010 7:52:00 AM, Blogger Pam~Off The Cuff ~ said…

    Oh heck Erin, so what that you didn't press this one as well as you have some others.

    I am obsessive presser..the least little seam, zipper pucker or "dart dimple" makes me crazy, LOL!
    Must come from my years of tailoring background...sigh...

    So good for you that on this one "good enough" was good enough :)

    I just about went crazy pressing the latest shirt I designed with deep bias sleeve pleats...talk about a pressing nightmare...OMG !
    But I managed to do a pretty good job, along with a writing a tutorial about how to invisibly control pleats from the inside with "Span Stitching".

     
  • At Feb 3, 2010 9:24:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    It's the burdastyle Heidi: http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/heidi/finished_projects

     
  • At Feb 4, 2010 8:27:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    However, Pam off the cuff, I bet it looked swell with all that pressing!

     
  • At Feb 4, 2010 8:30:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I just posted that last comment and need to set up a Google account so I don't come off as someone hiding behind my anonymous post!! What shall I call myself? Mz. Trim? Love Off the Cuff, Pam!

     
  • At Feb 7, 2010 9:31:00 PM, Blogger Angela said…

    Is this dress metafilter blue?! :)

     

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