Category archives: Dresses
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Howdy! So I’ve been suffering badly with the dreaded lurgy lately – which has been a bummer, to say the least! It’s taken me so long to get on and actually finish this dress. I think I started it at the end of November… wow… just worked that out myself. It DID take me ages!
The pattern i [...]
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Evening lovelies!
Tonight I give you another very gorgeous By Hand London Flora dress. This is a dress which I made in super fast time to wear to a very special wedding in August last year. It was like real life Great British Sewing Bee!! I try to avoid making things in a rush to a deadlin [...]
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Back in August I attended the wedding of an old school friend of mine, at a gorgeous hotel in St Albans. I decided some time beforehand that I wanted to be good enough at dressmaking to be able to make my own dress to wear on the day of the wedding. I had only been sewing for a few months, so [...]
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- Hello! So here you have it - my very first post on Gingerthread Girl - I can hardly contain my excitement!!
I figured that the best place for me to start is with my very first ever handmade dress.
I started this over my first few dressmaking lessons during my evening course. The idea of [...]