Plus Size Style and Fashion Blog
Hello and welcome to Saturday! I hope you’re all doing well? I’ve pulled myself out of a lovely bout of depression and finally getting some stuff up on the blog — hooray me! So this dress isn’t exactly hot off the machine, but I only went and made something again, didn’t I? So today I’m looking like a whole goddamn picnic and showing off some plus size sewing I’ve done!
Continue Reading…Okay. So. Remember when I used to sew? Yeah, me either. I lost a lot of my interest in sewing in the latter half of last year, mainly because of the lack of patterns for plus sizes that I actually wanted to sew. As a plus size sewist that mostly makes vintage-style clothing, you’d think there was a plethora of patterns available for that sort of style, right? Well, there is, in a way — but the majority, if not all of them, require so much work. You get to a point of changing patterns so much that you might as well just do your own. And I’m relatively lazy. But in walks the Queen of Vintage Sewing, Gretchen Hirsch and Charm Patterns! And voila, Gertie’s Cinch-It Dress. Let’s go!
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