sewing the Jump Rope Dress
November 30th, 2009
Two weeks ago I had the fabulous opportunity of joining Liesl Gibson as she gave a workshop at Spool Sewing on making the Jump Rope dress from her Oliver & S line.
First of all, let me just say how awesome it was to take an entire Saturday to be kid-free and do something that I enjoy doing. Really enjoy doing.
You can see a picture of the class here. That’s me… waaaay in the background there, 4th head from the left.
Second, it was fun to meet Liesl. What a gracious and friendly person. Even in those few hours I learned a lot about sewing. I have never taken a formal sewing class (unless you count that week of Home Ec during high school back in the ’80s where I learned to make a pencil case or something silly like that) and have learned mostly from my mom and just by doing.
Thirdly, Laura, from Spool Sewing, was a wonderful host. Thanks Laura!
I chose to make the dress in a non-patterned material, mostly because when I was doing some research on other people’s creations, it seemed to me that a lot of the detail on the dress gets lost in a complicated material. So, I headed off with Maja to the fabric store and decided on a fine-whaled corduroy. I really wanted red, but couldn’t get that, so Maja decided on a purple. And then she also chose some sweet butterfly buttons to go with it.
So, here it is on Maja:
I made the 4T size, although I probably have gotten away with the 3T. Well, she’ll grow into it!
Some detail:
And because they are so cute together (most of the time):
5 Responses to “sewing the Jump Rope Dress”
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Gorgeous job- this looks so dang cute on your sweet girl. Thanks for coming to the class; I’m so glad you enjoyed it, and that you had such sewing success!
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Crazy cute on your girl! I wanted to take that class, but I was afraid it would be too hard. Did you find it hard to make?
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Nice job! I’m glad to see you finished it, and it was great to meet you at Spool. Thanks for the nice post and photos!
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There are a considerable number of undiscovered tips for dresses in this site. I’ll be subscribing to your feed and constantly reading your posts.
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