Friday, October 16, 2009

New Look 6802 - Knit dress with twist front

As Carolyn posted last weekend, I had one of the greatest treats of my sewing life on Sunday- a small get together with other sewing bloggers at her place! Here's Cindy with Carolyn-

cindy & carolyn

Isn't this a great group of ladies to talk fashion with?

cidell & lindsay T

elizabeth & karen

We got to dig through her button collection, too. Thank you Carolyn for such a fantastic Sunday afternoon!! :-D

buttons!

I knew I had to wear something I'd made, so I stayed up late on Saturday finishing up New Look 6802. It's a basic knit dress with a gathered front skirt. One option has a front twist piece that's sewn over the front of the dress, making the front essentially two pieces. This overlay is only joined a the shoulder, armhole, and side seam. It's actually kind of nice, because you don't have to worry about getting too-plunging of a neckline, or attaching a skirt to it.



There are several reviews of it on Pattern Review, praising how versatile it is. I think I'll be making it up again soon with sleeves. It comes with neck and armhole binding pieces, but as usual I just cut strips with my rotary cutter and used them as binding. For the skirt hem, I used a twin needle with turquoise thread. It's a nice pattern and went together very easily!

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I got to leave with a gorgeous piece of pink tweed from her sewing closet that's on its way to being made into a pencil skirt. We talked about how crazy J.Crew's pencil skirt prices were- I immediately thought of their versions when I saw it. So hopefully this weekend I'll sneak in sewing it up in BWOF 08-2009-110.

8 comments:

Kathi said...

Very, very cute!! I plan to try a knit dress soon - I may even start it this weekend!!
Yours looks great!
I cannot BELIEVE that button collection!!!

Carolyn (Diary of a Sewing Fanatic) said...

I didn't realize that you made the dress the night before! Did you tell us? Maybe I was in the kitchen making the lasagna at that point?!

You got some great pics and thank you again for coming! It was alot of fun wasn't it!

Anne L said...

Great dress! Such a great meet-up you had - and what a wonderfully organized button stash, Carolyn.

Adrienne said...

What a great dress! Looks like you guys had a blast!

Lisette M said...

So lucky! Your dress is beautiful.

Meg said...

Thanks for the pics! I didn't realize that cute dress was sleeveless.

Anonymous said...

Great pics! I thought your dress was very flattering. I loved the print. I also didn't know you made it the night before. Kudos!

Kat said...

I'm drooling over that top. Love the style and the print!