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February 6, 2011

Vogue 8663

February 6, 2011

“Measure twice, cut once.”

Argh. I was so excited to make this, that I totally effed up cutting the bodice front. Of course my mistake was smack in the middle of the fabric, and no real way to work around it.

Sister and I went to Joann’s for a cutting mat. (All Olfa’s were on sale this weekend 50% off.) Vogue patterns were $3.99, this lovely charcoal gray fabric was 30% off, thread was 50% off… anyway, I walked out with 2 Vogue patterns, some zippers, another cutting mat, storage boxes, thread and fabric.

I’ve been wanting to make dresses to wear to work, so I thought this would be an easy one to knock out. Over on Pattern Review, it seems like a lot of people omitted the zipper and the bias tape around the neckline. I think I’m going to sew this according to the pattern and keep the tape and zipper. This knit is fairly heavy, and I think it’ll hold the zipper ok.

We’ll see how this turns out.

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Posted by norine
Filed Under: sewing Tagged: dress, wip

::The Name::

Five Baht Elephant. My mother is from Thailand, where elephants are royal animals. Growing up Mom would tell us to save our pennies, "in case a man came to our door selling elephants." At the time we thought it was the most absurd thing ever. Now I realize it was the Thai version of saving for a rainy day. Lets hope that we can buy an elephant for only five baht!

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