<\/noscript>Nancy knit dress<\/p><\/div>\n
However, I wanted a bit more shaping in front, and I don't like to go without a bra, so I added some halter straps made simply from long rectangles of fabric sewed up and then turned the right way out and hemmed the ends. \u00a0The shaping on the front was easy, I just gathered an inch and half of fabric in a bunch in the\u00a0center\u00a0and then sewed back and forward through it a couple of times and I had a little shaping.<\/p>\n
That afternoon I wore my dress to the supermarket, and saw a colleague who said ‘Cute dress' and I beamed and said ‘Thank you. \u00a0I made it myself.' and my love of sewing was cemented for good.<\/p>\n
So if you fancy making your first dress, try the Nancy pattern. It is easy to sew, has good instructions and you can\u00a0customize\u00a0it to fit your shape really\u00a0easily, add straps etc. \u00a0And it can also be worn around\u00a0the waist as a long or maxi skirt too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Buoyed\u00a0by the success of my first sewing project with the pink apron, I headed straight onwards and upwards and became (too ?) ambitious for my next project. \u00a0I wanted to make a dress. \u00a0The remnant bin this week produced a rather random print in blue and brown which I am \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[5,7,9,8,95,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}