Making Mrs. White Part 1
Hey Reader!
I was invited to a murder mystery dinner party. I eventually want to throw one of my own, but I can live with being in attendance for now. Because I can't stand to do anything halfway, I have decided to make my own costumes.
First costume on the list is Mrs. White. I am sure she has many secrets, and probably a few flames coming from the side of her face.
I have only made one dress using a pattern before and I think it came out pretty great. However, this is a much more challenging dress. Its Simplicity 8848 and it is super pretty and 1950's inspired. I decided to see if YouTube would be able to help me out and the answer is YES. TheLifeKawaii has a lengthy tutorial making this exact dress.
Unfortunately, by the time I found it I realized that I had already made some mistakes. Since this dress is doing to be worn by a man at a costume party, I am a little less concerned about perfection. I do want it to be better than what I made already though.
In case you are not aware, when you get a pattern, there is all this really thin tissue paper inside with your pattern and you go and dutifully cut it out at the size you want. Sizing for a man is hard, since the measurements you WANT are not necessarily the measurements that really exist (at least not yet). Mrs. White threw on a few pads and a corset and we got to measuring. Once we had a rough idea of the size we were going with, it was time to start cutting. I figured, even if we got the size wrong, we can always pad more... right?
Mistake 1: Somewhere on the internet, I was informed that I should be cutting out dart shapes into my garment. However, TheLifeKawaii (my resident expert) did not do this. When I went back to try and find who gave me this false information I couldn't find it anywhere. Maybe I am just losing my mind. Point is, I have darts cut out that are essentially just holes in my garment. I am hoping I can fix it in the darting process. A pro would have cut out new pieces but I don't have that much of this fabric. Correction, a pro wouldn't have cut holes in the dress, but that's another story.
Mistake 2: I similarly found someone on the internet who said I should leave seam allowances on my cutouts. Meaning, that I shouldn't cut the pattern out exactly. This is - of course - super wrong. The pattern is sized and by cutting out more than I need I am left with, you guessed it, more than I need. Fortunately, the intersection of mistake 1 and mistake 2 means that I might be able to salvage my parts.
I didn't get much further than that, but I figured I would share my two mistakes with you so far.
In the meantime,
Keep making cool stuff and until next time,
JoshPrime
I was invited to a murder mystery dinner party. I eventually want to throw one of my own, but I can live with being in attendance for now. Because I can't stand to do anything halfway, I have decided to make my own costumes.
First costume on the list is Mrs. White. I am sure she has many secrets, and probably a few flames coming from the side of her face.
I have only made one dress using a pattern before and I think it came out pretty great. However, this is a much more challenging dress. Its Simplicity 8848 and it is super pretty and 1950's inspired. I decided to see if YouTube would be able to help me out and the answer is YES. TheLifeKawaii has a lengthy tutorial making this exact dress.
Unfortunately, by the time I found it I realized that I had already made some mistakes. Since this dress is doing to be worn by a man at a costume party, I am a little less concerned about perfection. I do want it to be better than what I made already though.
In case you are not aware, when you get a pattern, there is all this really thin tissue paper inside with your pattern and you go and dutifully cut it out at the size you want. Sizing for a man is hard, since the measurements you WANT are not necessarily the measurements that really exist (at least not yet). Mrs. White threw on a few pads and a corset and we got to measuring. Once we had a rough idea of the size we were going with, it was time to start cutting. I figured, even if we got the size wrong, we can always pad more... right?
Mistake 1: Somewhere on the internet, I was informed that I should be cutting out dart shapes into my garment. However, TheLifeKawaii (my resident expert) did not do this. When I went back to try and find who gave me this false information I couldn't find it anywhere. Maybe I am just losing my mind. Point is, I have darts cut out that are essentially just holes in my garment. I am hoping I can fix it in the darting process. A pro would have cut out new pieces but I don't have that much of this fabric. Correction, a pro wouldn't have cut holes in the dress, but that's another story.Mistake 2: I similarly found someone on the internet who said I should leave seam allowances on my cutouts. Meaning, that I shouldn't cut the pattern out exactly. This is - of course - super wrong. The pattern is sized and by cutting out more than I need I am left with, you guessed it, more than I need. Fortunately, the intersection of mistake 1 and mistake 2 means that I might be able to salvage my parts.
I didn't get much further than that, but I figured I would share my two mistakes with you so far.
In the meantime,
Keep making cool stuff and until next time,
JoshPrime
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