Summer Dresses: Cutest Chevron Pattern

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Oh, it’s time to start thinking ‘summer dresses’. Now is the time to select the best summer fabric and to start taking advantage of gorgeous dress patterns like this. Let’s start dreaming ‘summer’!!! And here is my first summer dress idea: Chevron!! I am still not crazy about chevron wall paper pattern, but zig-zag stripes [...]

Chic Sheath Dress :: 30 Min Sewing Pattern

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Yep. 30 minutes is all that it took to put together this highly fashionable, elegant fitted dress. If designer Melissa Esplin* can do it, perhaps we can do it too. She skipped making a pattern and she went straight from cutting the fabric (using another fitted top and skirt) to sewing this gorgeous dress. *read [...]

Maxi Dress Pattern

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Maxi dresses are great for summer: as draped cover-ups, for evening glamour and/or all day sun cover. None will be stealing the show but you, wearing a suitable maxi dress!   How about you making this beauty? This easy-peasy maxi dress uses nothing more but a top you already own as your base sewing pattern. [...]

Summer Maxi Dresses Sewing Video Tutorial

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This has to be the easiest dress pattern you can find. Actually, this maxi dress looks so fabulous and sophisticated rather than too simple for words….   I’m a summer ‘wrap dress’- gal, and believe me, I know a million ways to wrap sarongs into simple summer dresses. I pin some of my maxi dresses [...]

Anthropologie Summer Dress :: Pattern Video

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Romantic Spring Dresses, Sewing Pattern. Today I have a sewing video tutorial for an elegant Anthropologie dress, called Gathering Breeze. This Spring dress / Summer dress retails at $260. You can make it for less than $20. Come learn how. Dress Detail Half lace, half jersey, this dress goes easily from backyard BBQ to wedding [...]

Petticoat Skirts anyone? Here’s a Free Sewing Pattern.

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Tiered Ruffle Skirt Pattern for you. Womens fashion to sew as you like: whimsical, classic, elegant, romantic, old fashioned or fashion 2012. How it looks depends on your fabric and embellishments you choose to add.   Materials 2.5-3.5 yard of fabric (of 45″ width). Formula: (your waist + 12 inches)/18 inch = length of fabric [...]

Free Ruffle Summer Dress Pattern

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I guess, all of a sudden, we have Fashion 2010 on FineCraftGuild. We did not plan to write more about fashion, but it so happens because fashion designers have been inspiring us. Maybe because I want to wear ruffle-y things this year. Never mind the ‘how come’? Here’s the how: a free dress sewing pattern [...]