Mermaid Flounce Skirt Pattern // Making A Lemon Print Dress
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I wanted to show you all one way to create a flounced mermaid style flared skirt pattern. There are many different ways to draft styles like these, from a gathered flounce, to a gored skirt, to a more circle cut flounce or ruffle like this one! I chose to test out the new skirt shape with some fun summery lemon print cotton.
While I do think this busy print could perhaps use a big navy blue belt to cinch in the waist a bit, I'm excited to wear this new dress out in the summer time one day!
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Thank you for watching!
Oh I need that skirt in my life. I wonder what I have in my stash....
Pending projects in tiny voices: But what about us?
Hush, children, your time will come.
Let's play a game of when will Bianca remember she has a clapper?! Lol.. I do hope your lemon cello dreams come true soon!.. I'm south african and in the before times I was planning a trip to Mozambique, so let's hope this pashmina ends soon and we can all breathe freely and ofcourse go forth and taste the world.
I have certainly not adjusted to clapper life yet 😅 It's right there but...no I don't remember ha! I hope we are all free to travel soon!
@@TheClosetHistorian the clapper will change your life! You won't believe how flat and lovely it makes everything! It really is amazing what a difference it makes. :)
Ok, the sewing your zipper seam closed with a basting stitch so it can be nicely pressed is SO SMART. I'm going to adopt that method from now on.
It doesn't work for every fabric, but if I think it can handle it, I find it gives a good finish!
I kind of want a "Summer In Italy" lookbook now.
yeeees!
Yes yes
Yes please!
Oh, yes, please!
I have good news about this summer's schedule...✨
BIANCA you look absolutely MESMERIZING in this dress! I cheated and fast forwarded because I couldn’t help myself, and I keep rewinding the reveal 🤩 You constantly inspire me!
Thank you!
I agree ☝️!!!
She is such a gorgeous lady and in that dress.....
I hope that when the panorama has past, you'll do a vlog or two showing yourself out and about wearing some of the amazing clothes you made whilst waiting it out! Your work deserves to get some appreciation IRL.
Thanks Holly! I can't wait to get very, very, dolled up for a fully day out thrifting and visiting vintage shops and I will totally vlog it!
@@TheClosetHistorian Wonderful! ✨ Can't wait to see it.
Holy Moly Lady! Wowza! That shape is gorgeous. As a Lemon Witch, I hereby grant you a future limoncello on the Amalfi Coast with friends.
Yes! And yess
Thank you! I would very much like a limoncello on the Amalfi Coast 😍
That is one elegant dress, and it fits you like a glove. Beautiful work.
Thank you Gillian!
Love the print!!! I haven’t sewed anything close to this style since the late 70’s !!!! I use to sew all my clothes while in high school n college!!!! My mom had a singer like yours!!!! It brings back memories of my youth!😊
Thank you Carolina!
I always learn something when I watch you make anything. Speaking of making...what about making homemade Limoncello so you can have that Italian vibe?
Yess!!! Let's have a video so we can make limoncello together!
Thank you Mary! I'm afraid that kitcheny things are less my strong suit 😅🍋
Reading the comments before finishing the video gave me very high hopes and honestly, you never disappoint!!! This looks so beautiful!!! Amazing
Thank you Valentina!
Yes! Return of the lemon dress! I was bummed when you got rid of one in your closet clean out.
That's the Eleonora of Toledo gown. If you want more details but can't go to Italy, there are black and white photos and a pattern for the whole thing in Patterns of Fashion 3. I think the school of historical dress is working on printing color versions of the book in the near future.
Also in that book is my personal favorite, the Dorothea Sabina von Neurburg gown, and several other outfits recovered from graves.
It's scheduled to be released in winter 2021, book 1 of the series was in color proof a few weeks ago! I'm so excited get my hands on those books
@@PestoPasta666 So I am not the only one waiting impatiently for the rerelease of Patterns of Fashion.
That Panini dress is amazing. And it suits you beautifully. I would add to it a wide brimmed hat and go shopping at the market or anywhere you can buy olive oil and panini. Anywhere.
This reminds me of that Katherine character in UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.
Time to watch that again! ( I recommend in case you haven't seen it. But of course you have!)
I always adore these tutorials because you show WHY patterns are drafted and shaped the way they are. I've been following for awhile now, and with each video, I feel more confident in my abilities as a novice. Thank you for always publishing quality content.
Plus, your voice is calming, and the fabric zipping along under the needle is relaxing. When I'm feeling anxious, I'll watch one of your videos, and I'll feel more at ease and able to tackle my to-do list.
Thank you so much Mandy ❤❤❤
My grandmother's family came from Sicily. She was only 4' 11" and very Sicilian lol! Its the Eleanor de Toledo gown.
Yes I couldn't remember the name off the top of my head! Indeed, and a magical experience to see it in person 🤯
@@TheClosetHistorian
This dress is so stunningly beautiful! I have also been to Italy numerous times (San Gimignano, Florence, Vinci, Venice, Rome, Rimini, …) and actually I bonded with my now-husband on a school trip to Rome back in 2006, so without that trip I wouldn’t be married today! 🥰 So the city holds a special place in my heart!
Thank you Henriette! How romantic and cute indeed!
Bianca...so many comments in my head as the video went on (all positive and conversation-y) but too much for this comment box. Completely enjoyed this. Beautiful dress. I am not one who likes to stray far from home but my grandfather immigrated from Catana Sicily in Nineteen Aught Four and sold White sewing machines before making his fortune in San Francisco in the insurance industry so I guess I would like to see Italy. But the weather in the UK suits me better. In the meantime I am happy staying home in NM. Plague or no. Always enjoy your videos and intelligent commentary and mad sewing skills.
Thank you Ann! ❤ I am a major homebody, but museums can get me out into the world 😅
Bianca!! Just what the doctor ordered!
YEEESSSS!! All the lemony goodness we can stand 🍋🍋
Ice = ghiaccio in Italian. No, I don't speak Italian, but I speak Google translate quite fluently. Thank you for another video.
Italian over here, happy to help.
I can't recommend places in Italy without mentioning my city, Torino, it's beautiful, biggest ancient Egypt museum in Italy, there is the royal palace, and the hunting palaces in stupinigi and Venaria (which are Versailles inspired). I did visit Venice a few years ago, but I honestly found the small islands around Venice to be more interesting and cute. If you want to go in the summer... Not in touristy cities, I made the mistake to go in august in Florence and in Rome (in different occasions) and yes, it's not ideal.
Ghiaccio is the word for ice you were looking for.
In the summer we all escape to the beach, Sardinia has the best water over all, super green and clear, but there are great beaches also in Sicily and Puglia. Naples is also beautiful for the history I just personally haven't been yet.
But I think I would go on forever recommending Italy..
Wow. I just wish I could go... sniff sniff. Booohoooo. I'm crying!
It just sounds like I could spend a couple of months just roaming Italy!!
Oh my Torino indeed sounds most fabulous! I love ancient Egyptian history and royal palaces so it sounds right up my street! And I haven't been to any of the beaches, so that is a must for the future for sure 💛🍋
I am Italian and from Rome, so I am biased ahah Also love Naples and Sicily! But anywhere, really, you can find beautiful places to visit!
Ischia is great; the Sicilian small islands (i'm very partial to Lampedusa); the Tuscan countryside; Umbria with the gorgeous hills and the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi ; Matera with its cave dwellings; Pompei; Villa d'Este just outside Rome, a Renaissance villa with 100 fountains; Abruzzo has gorgeous protected areas; medieval Bologna and byzantine monuments in Ravenna; near Naples there is an underwater Archeological Area... so many things to visit and only one life!
(The Italian word for ice cream is "gelato", btw, for "ice" is "ghiaccio")
Gorgeous dress as usual!
(Edited for the nth time to say: if you would like recs for museums in Rome or Naples - since they're the ones I know- I'd by happy to tell you which ones are my favourites!)
Thank you Serena! Well Rome is gorgeous so it's fair to be biased! We survived the heat on plenty of gelato for sure ❤ There is so much history and beauty to see, such a gorgeous place. And an underwater archeological area sounds extra mysterious and magical!
For those stuck at home in the pandemic, track down the Italian TV series Montalbano. You will get to see just how beautiful Sicily really is. Plus it's also a fabulous TV series, highly recommended (except for the final episode for those who may turn tearful).
@@musicandbooklover-p2o I'm obsessed with it, I have all the books and all the show episodes on my computer!
I even went to take photos in front of the police station & in front of Montalbano's house, though I'm not sure I should brag about it ahah
I think that the neckline on this dress is very flattering on you.
Thank you!
Wearing my unicorn skirt, hemmed precisely as you describe. Agree. It works great!
Sorrento ❤ honeymooned there with my hubby in 2016 went back 3 years later to the very same hotel and the staff remembered us!! Wonderful people, wonderful place and great base to tour to capri, vesuvius, pompeii, herculaneum and coast road that I forget the name of right now lol
I had a very stressful day today and needed some time with Bianca! I actually found a video that I hadn't seen yet! Love the dress on you!
Thank you Franny!
Belle réalisation
I bought the same fabric a couple week ago! I will make a full circle skirt with it because they are my favourite skirts ever! It is the most beautiful pattern ever!
Always love a circle skirt!
Thank you for using so many pins. I feel validated. =D
Imagine how many are on my sewing room floor too 😬😂
Your giving panini a bad name 😭
No but seriously: thank you for this lovely video and taking us on a fantasy travel! I want to go on a long train journey á la Murder on the Orient Express. In costume, of course.
I understand that the food is to die for!
Shall we switch to pavlova? 🤣 Parsley? Palanquin? Pontiac?
I want to travel to Japan. I especially want to go when a sumo grand tournament is happening and watch a tournament day.
I to watch your videos during work and they're so calming and relaxing, but also incredibly informative! I now finally understand how does interesting pointy neckline cut outs are made! So thank you
Thank you Laura!
I want to go back to Iceland and would love to tour the Faroe Islands and the outer Hebrides.
Beautiful dress. Love navy and yellow.
Thank you Alexandra! Iceland looks otherworldly pretty!
Rad dress...and looks fantastic on you!
Thank you Heather!
Ostia Antica is the ancient port of Rome, and you can explore things like a 5 story insula, an apartment building. Siena is lovely, too. I was lucky to go to Italy twice - both of my brothers were stationed in Naples at different times.
Sounds super interesting, I am sure I would love to wander the ancient bits!
Me and my husband was gonna backpack around Europe this year...but, that aint gonna happen now....I would love to visit Ireland, roam in Scotland, do a stop in Haag and Amsterdam before heading to Germany, then go to Prag....
I love how this dress turned out :D 💜
Thank you! One of my friends lived in Prag when she was a kid, it looks beautiful for sure!
It really suits you - and WOW is your eye makeup amazing!
Thank you Pamela!
A beautiful dress!
Thank you Kelly!
I love Lemon too. My people are from Naples as well and Amalfi is right there. Must explain the lemon love :) Try greek Lemon Garlic potatoes. Heavenly. We need to find you elbow length navy gloves. Delicious dress! You look lovely in it.
Amazing you are so talented
As a french person living close to Italy, I find hilarious the use of "Panini" for the current situation. I will now only use that word, thanks Bianca. (Gorgeous dress btw)
Thank you Harry!
Go to Naples, Sorrento, and the Amalfi Coast! Your lemon dress will be camouflage. Also it's beautiful and the food is amazing.
Sounds fabulous, all I need is a cute driver who likes antiquing as much as I do 🤣
@@TheClosetHistorian I’m right here! Italy is only about a 6hrs drive from me in middling south eastish France, and then another day of driving to reach Naples. I love antiquing, too. The only issue is the monies for traveling and the panini, of course. But I volunteer 👍🏼
@@elwoodsterful I do love some middle of France as well! I stayed in Burgundy for a few months once and everything was gorgeous and magical really. A friend of mine lives just outside Auxerre and took me to nearby sights and towns ❤
I just love how I learn something new sewing/patterning wise in every video of yours. And the dress looks amazing, the video makes me crave for a Limoncello cocktail and summer so bad. 🍋☀️
Thank you Vilma! 💛🍋
I love this
I would love to go to England especially to see The Overtones. Love those guys!
Stunning! This is such a fun dress, from the summery lemon print to the mermaid skirt detail. I love that this calls back to your “aperitif in Italy” dress you passed on, while fitting into your more structured, femme-female esque wardrobe. Lemons and citruses for the win! 🍋
Thank you Avery! 💛
Queen of Darts, yes! To be honest, Darts are one of the least intimidating things for me. most intimidating is probably fixing sleeves that I've put in backwards.
It took me a while to realize that there were left and right sleeves
I agree Queen of Darts is accurate!
I finally understand them now!
Fabulous!! This is the first video of yours I have seen and I loved it. Can I ask if your block has the seam allowance built in? Thanksx
Thank you Ann! Yes my card blocks already have seam allowance on them, so I only have to add any when I cut into the body of the pattern really 🧵✨
I am not a wearer of vintage fashion, but I find your videos are so enjoyable to watch. I am pretty new to sewing and I just finished a shirt with a flounce. I was able to create the flounce because of you. Seeing your slashing and spreading technique in other videos had helped me a lot
Thank you Andreea! ❤
I am eternally aching to get back to Ireland... I wish for us all to travel again someday!
Thank you for this. I have wanted to make one just like this. In regards to Italy, for me, the best time to go is mid-September early October. Harvest season. 25-32 degrees. You like good food and beautiful landscape at a decent price explore the Sicilian Island and Islands around it. Palermo is so much fun.
I do like good food and beautiful landscapes! So much to see ❤
This reminded me of my mom's red dress with huge black roses on it thanks for the memory
Sounds awesome!
Lovely dress with summer vibes 🍋🍋🍋 I want to go to Seville, Spain again *sigh* o well. It will happen someday. 🌈☀️
Thank you Diana! Ooo I want to go too, sounds lovely! I have never been to Spain, or rather...not yet!
I really love these bright prints with dark backgrounds.. I remember one of the Princess Diaries books had a cover like that and I would just look at it for ages..
Lake maggiore has an amazing house and garden.
Venice is both beautiful and sad. Stay a night despite the cost it’s a different place when the tourists leave for the day.
Cianti region in central Italy is beautiful and the wine is fantastic. Accessible from sienna which is fantastically medieval.
Egypt is lovely but also dangerous go on a tour and stay on the falucca
Thanks for the tips Heather! I do certainly love some yummy wine! I find wine gives me a headache in the US, but in France and Italy I'm fine 😅 Had some Chablis in Chablis last trip and it was divine ✨
Wow another beautifully fitted piece....stunning simplicity!!
Thank you Lorna!
This design really suits your shape. You have inspired me to draft this pattern (first time) for myself. Sending a big thank you for sharing your work and personality which brings such joy.
Thank you Jennifer!
Hello Bianca! If you go back to Italy, I think you should actually go to Naples, it's absolutely stunning. I've only been there on a school trip unfortunately, my favourite place was the majolica cloister of the monastery of Santa Clara, which would actually go quite well with this dress. Also, Naples is close with Pompeii, Salerno, the hometown of limoncello, Caserta and its royal Palace (absolutely amazing, I'd love to visit it again), Amalfi and a lot more. Plus, pizza.
It's even hotter than Rome, though, definitely don't go in July. In any case, the Italian word for ice is "ghiaccio", with a hard g :)/
Hello Claudia! ❤ Thank you for the tips! I need to visit all the more coastal places really in general, but maybe not in the full summer yeah 😅
I studied abroad in Spain during Spring 2020 (at least until March 15th, that is) and I would love to go back and do and see and eat and try all the things I didn't get to before having to fly back to the United States. A friend and I also had a trip to Paris planned for the end of March...I think that is still number one on my list of things to do at some point in my life!
Such a bummer, I'm so sorry that the plague time derailed your study abroad experience like that! I have yet to visit Spain! So much to see in the world!
I've been to Venice Carnivale a few times and adore it and would love to go back (though I know there are issues with over crowding and tourism which would make me think twice about it in the future). I'd like to go to Florence and Rome as well, possibly Naples. I really want to go to New Zealand at some point in the future.
So incredibly lovely!!! You look so awesome. I loved your storytelling 🍋🍋🍋. Thank you greatly‼️‼️‼️♥️♥️♥️🌹🌹🌹
Thank you Alice! 💛
Wonderful dress and fabric. You look amazing in that dress. Love it. Thank you for this nice video. Stay safe.
Thank you Laila!
Just got done making daisy pants only for them to turn out way too small. Thankfully I have a pencil skirt pattern and you to save me from tears. I hate commercial patterns so much sometimes
Very nice
Brilliantly done! I do love the mermaid style (and mermaids in general, as you might have gathered lol) and I must say you've inspired me! I've just received two vintage patterns from the 80s and 50s and have started ordering from Truly Victorian!
Thank you! I used to work for a mermaid tail company (the swim fabric kind, mostly for kids)...and it ended up being kind of awful, so unfortunately mermaids have been tainted for me 😅 I love Truly Victorian patterns now, they have always worked out for me so far!
@@TheClosetHistorian The mermaid community has a reputation for being rather toxic, though I'm not entirely sure why that is. Raven, the woman who made my silicone tail, attests this and generally likes to swim alone or with a few sweet exceptions; she has had hundreds of clients and done tails for professional films, but her mermaid meet-up (the one in my music video slideshow) consisted of only five maids!
I'm not sure if that is the sort of thing to which you were referring, though. When you worked for the company, I hope your fine craft was not overtaxed by coarse demands!
I’ve only been to Italy once when I was little, and we went to Alberobello in Puglia which is soooooo cool! They have all these little houses called trulli which are just so cute
It looks like a place from Star Wars or something! Fascinating!
These are such wonderful videos/ tutorials. I know it takes so much time to film, edit, and create... so a humble thank you for a job well done. These videos were such a treat during our year of quarantine.
Thank you! ❤
You should go to Montisi in Italy. It is not really that far from Pisa, and it is a fabulous small village where you can rent a flat in a medieval house if you want.
That certainly sounds very cool!
Bianca beautiful job as usual👍🏻👍🏻🎉 I’m so jealous of your fantastic skills
Thank you Patti!
I love the storytime sewing. Peak vibrations 👌 also anytime someone mentions Italy I think of call me by your name for the gays
Thank you Isabelle! I actually haven't seen it which probably makes me a bad queer 😅
I learn so much watching you draft patterns for your new items. Thank you. Your lemonchello dress is beautiful. I love all of Italy but had so much fun participating in a wedding party parading through the streets of Florence when I was last there, as they did in the 1400's or so. We also were in Venice during one of their masked ceremonial evenings; it was very exciting. I bought a mask as my memorabilia.
Thank you! That does indeed sound fun! Venice seems so magical and mysterious with all of their various happenings and general Atlantis vibes 😅✨
Thank you Ms. Bianca. I enjoy your long videos so much and I would welcome more dresses of this style (or suits for that matter) with bishop sleeves. I am crocheting most the time and you encourage me to sew. I absolutely love the 40s and some of the 50s styles. If only I could find another sewest like you who does tutorials on hats of this era. BTW your make up is so artsy and flatters you.
Thank you Zoraya!
Ohhhhh wow, I have to go buy some lemon print now, I want that dress!! You look fabulous, your giving me Sophia loren in her hey day vibes!! You go girl!
Thank you Alaganthra!
Top place I will travel 🧳 🧭 is ancient Egypt, offer still stands for you to go. 2025 make it a birthday, or milestone, goal.
Not been to Italy, not Italian (my family's all Anglo-Irish, mostly), but I'm desperate to go for Pitti Uomo and to see the Palladian Villas.
And, you simply must have to send you a Shaker Lemon Pie!
I had never even heard of the Palladian Villas so thank you for bringing them to my attention!
@@TheClosetHistorian ive never seen them in person, only pictures, and they are breathtaking
I've been debating getting a lemon print dress now I think I'll just go for it ! 😁
edited to add, I went and bought it ! now I have 4 yards of oranges on black 😆 to make myself something
Queen of Darts! That’s great!
I do have a problem though, I had just about decided I didn’t need a navy as a neutral, and now I need a navy and lemon print in my life. Thanks lol
Just been given a 201k singer from 1954, with a trundle foot...I'm so excited to make projects with it! So I'll be going through your back catalogue for inspiration!
Yes! This is it! This is the skirt pattern I need for my "too special to cut" fabric. I just impulse bought a $25 pattern thanks to you! Lol yay!
The dress came out beautifully and you look great in it! Very sophisticated as well. I had seen that fabric and loved it, but wasn't sure how it would look as a dress, etc. and now I know it looks beautiful. Loved the eye shadow too. Not sure if it was in tribute to the dress, but it did anyway. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Thank you Peggy! 💛🍋💛 I do quite like a yellow eye shadow!
So, when you’re saying that getting to travel is a privilege and I think it’s a shame that that is the case for so many people! Like it should be that experiencing the world is something that everyone gets to do.. boo I’m an idealist. I’d love to visit Japan too but I think Greece is my favourite country so I’d go there and feel all homey and chill if I could
I agree that more people can't travel. It changes a person (usually for the better).
*it's too bad* more people can't travel...
I know you're saying "dart fullness" but I always hear the non-word "dartfulness" as in "the property of having many darts." Which is also true, I suppose! Here's to another lovely, dartful dress.
Always practicing dartfulness ✨
Fantastic dress on a fantastic lady!
I miss travelling a lot. I am lucky enough to live in Europe (UK) and have family in Germany and France - but I would love to go back to Italy and also Spain. Best times are April/early May and September/October for the Mediterranean, I hear. Sigh... one day...
Thank you! How I miss the UK...I hope to get back to London as soon as I can do so safely ❤
@@TheClosetHistorian fingers crossed that will be soon! 🤞🏻
You look amazing in the limoncello dress. I can see you now, at a café by the colosseum ordering "Il ghiaccio per favore."
Thank you! 💛🍋
VA VA VOOM!!!!!! You look like an Italian Starlet from the time!! Seriously perfect fit!!!!
Thank you Thea! 💜
I think I’d most like to go to Finland, I’ve got a good friend there that I haven’t seen in person for more than two years.
Edit: Yes, please more catalogue videos! I love looking through all the available styles.
I would love to make a set of body blocks like you have. I made a set before in fashion design school but I was young and lean then. Would you be interested in showing how you make your blocks?
I know that this comment is older and you've probably found them already, but she has a playlist of the block videos 😊
I spent 6 weeks doing an archaeological field school in Rome in June and July, so I hear you on the heat. That trip my favorite museum was probably the one near Termini. I went after work one day and had it basically to myself.
I tried to look up which museum this would be, but there are 5 or 6 quite near there, so I'll just imagine they're all great! 😅 Love a private tour moment always!
BIANCA DIVA!! BELISSMA!!! CAN'T STAND YA GURL! WORK IT!!
I love, love, love that dress and the lemon patterned fabric is simply fabulous. Watching you draft to the finished outfit is Amazing. You make the dumbest of person sew. Just dress up and do your own Picnic or Brunch at home if you have backyard. Do you with some beverage of your choice. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕👍👍👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Diana! 🍋 I do have some picnics in my future thankfully!
I am always so pleased to find a long video from you! I enjoy watching at work, where I too am cuttin n stitching
Thank you! Keep stitching 🧵✨
HELL YES LEMONSSSSS 🍋🍋🍋
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy on CNN showcases foods from each regions' cuisines. I highly recommend watching for travel inspiration!
I desperately want to go to Ireland and Norway 😍
Fantastic work, as usual, B! 💙
Didn’t someone gift you a clapper? Burn the bottom of that instead of burning your hands😜
Thank you Jo! I think my parents have been watching that! I would get hungry though 😅 Ireland is gorgeous! It was the first place I ever went outside of the US, make sure to schedule in Powerscourt Gardens in Wicklow 💚
@@TheClosetHistorian It certainly makes me hungry! Made from scratch meals and ALL THE PASTA!
I'll be sure to check out Powerscourt Gardens when we go! My family and I had planned to go last year... alas, pomeranian panini.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm not an expert by any stretch, but have you considered setting your sleeves with your side seams open? I did it for the first time last year and it was a game-changer!
I have never tried it myself but I'm glad it works well!
Your lemon dress is so elegant, fun, exquisite and a perfect fit. I learn so much from you. Thank you. 💛💛💛
Thank you Gemma!
wow you look stunnung
Thank you Antoinette!
How awesome!!! I made a lemon print dress at the end of last summer. They are so cheerful to wear!!!
I would love to do a 'grand tour's kind of vacation to Europe, but the only vacation I may not be able to go on, is to visit family in S California.
Yay this dress came out so cute and fun!
I live pretty close to Venice, but I have to admit that i don't really like go there.. I miss going to Rome, when I was younger I used to go there a lot for political manif and the like (or EuroPride where I got to see Lady Gaga!). Definitely come here in spring or fall or (if you're not planning to go to the beach) even in winter!
After the panasonic is over I'd like to go back to London too (and I will be forever angry at brexit for making it more difficult)! I'd also like to go visit some friends around Europe (something i was just starting to plan.. in february 2020................)
I try not to think about it too much.
Also, question: I never use facings because I don't have a serger and i don't know how to finish the facing hem in a way that is both efficient and not bulky... any suggestions?
Also also: the italian word for ice is "ghiaccio" (/’ɡjatːʃo/) ;)
Thank you Andrea! Darn that Brexit for real, just such a hassle for everyone involved, yikes! As for facings, even just using pinking shears to cut them out will help with most fabrics unless they are quite loosely woven, or using a wide width zig zag stitch along the edge instead of serging, also binding with something very thin. I like rayon seam binding for this purpose, as it is super tissue pater thin so it doesn't add muck bulk for sure, Hug Snug is a brand name I like but I imagine there are others!
@@TheClosetHistorian thx Bianca, that rayon seam binding seems just the thing, I must go look what I can get around here!
that’s loveley! fits you wonderfully. thank you posting this.
Thank you Klaire!