Pattern Giveaway for the Holiday

This is my first pattern giveaway.  I will do a random drawing May 31.  Just leave a comment as to what pattern(s) you would like to win.  If you are interested in all of them just post all.  Please help me generate an interest in the giveaway by posting a note on your blog.  You should be able to click on the photo do see the size.  All patterns have never been used or traced.  I have no pets and no smokers in the home.

Without further ado here's the patterns.  Good luck:

Giveaway winner from Kathy at Kathy Sew's

Recently Kathy of Kathy Sew's celebrated her birthday by having a giveaway. I was a lucky winner. I won a sewing book called "BurdaStyle – Sewing Vintage Modern."

I had the chance to look through the book yesterday evening and found it to be a very enjoyable sewing book. It has several garment patterns. It has nice illustrations, as well as photos of different garments, and it is spiral–bound making it easy to go through.

There are several very cute patterns for tops, dresses and blouses.

Thank you Kathy for the giveaway and really am glad I won this book!

B5917

The dress is complete except for hemming.  I truly like this pattern and will come back to it to make a fall dress, perhaps using the longer sleeves but staying with the sheath style.  Here is a view of the dress hanging.

Some of the adjustments I made with this dress included forward shoulder, FBA, and sway back.  During the sewing process I made additional changes: upper back bodice adjustment-sewing this piece by adjusting from center to side seam by sewing the upper back piece at 3/4 inch with bottom back piece at 5/8.  Right shoulder was adjusted by sewing from mid shoulder to shoulder an additional 1/4 inch.  Back darts were let out and curved.

Some more photos of the dress

bathroom shot of dress front

Hem pinned

This dress is made from a vintage sheet from a give away contest from Lynn at Wonderfully Made.  The lights in my bathroom show case the fabric better than my sewing room.

The next version I will line fully instead of just the bodice.  I thought about doing that with this dress but needed to work through how the bodice lining worked per instructions and what I should do to adapt to full lining.  I will simple duplicate the dress.  Lining the skirt portion will help eliminate wrinkles with some fabrics.

I Won

I won a book giveaway on ThreadsMagazine.com.  I remember commenting to enter for the giveaway, but had truly forgotten about it until now.  I received an email notifying me today and then went to website and saw the notice there.  Link is below:

http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/20036/and-the-winner-of-couture-sewing-techniques-is#comments

Cool!!!

Giveaway at addy below

http://thelongandwindingbobbin.blogspot.com/2010/09/giveawaypalooza.html

Go to this address and participate in the giveaway=vintage patterns, fabric and vintage look purse!