Inspinration: Christmas in July with EYMM

You know I love deadlines, so without much thinking I jumped on the Christmas in July blog post call from EYMM* (Everything Your Mother Made and more). I was not very familiar with the concept and enthusiastically printed the Off Shoulder Dress*, I just love the look of the huge cowl and I did not own anything similar. Then, when I finished and tried it on on one of the warmest days of the year, I instantly realized Christmas in July is about the fact that you sew for the opposite Christmas season as you are used to. Of course, I just could have gone with it, and pretended to be from Australia. The problem with that idea was that I would have to wear it outside for the shoot, and I already knew I would have a super heated face on all pictures, so I went back to the sewing machine.

For the first dress, that you will see in a few weeks or so, I adjusted the skirt of the dress to be a simple A line skirt. For my second try, I again adjusted the skirt but now omitted the cowl and made short sleeves. Normally the beautiful off shoulder neckline is not visible on the dress, but it is there for sure. I simply folded down approximately two centimeter and hemmed the neckline, without changing anything (so I actually folded down more than the original one centimeter seam allowance).

It seemed the dress stayed on like that. I debated with myself if I would leave it like this, but I was afraid I would feel like pulling up the shoulders the whole time. So, I just added two straps (that also hide my bra straps). I stitched the straps to the neckline in the same step as I hemmed the neckline down. The whole dress sewed down super quick, if I would have to guess the hole thing, including cutting the fabric took less than one and a half hour. This red fabric is another one from the eleven meter that I bought a few weeks ago, I fully used the one meter red for this dress.

It is still 22 weeks to Christmas, which means a sea of time to one and already stress to another. To anyone this is a perfect opportunity to stock up on new patterns, because there now is a 22% discount store wide in the EYMM web shop* with the code 22WEEKEND until 7/25/16 11:59 pm PST. I already know I will wear an Off Shoulder Dress* with cowl in December.

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