Inspinration: Sewing challenge

Challenges, you know I love them. When Davina, came with the idea of the Sew Challenge, I of course wanted to join. The idea of the Sew Challenge is that you get three challenges from one blogger and you give three challenges to another. This way everyone gets a challenge on her own level. I got my challenges from So Popo Sew,and they were great. She challenged me to sew something for myself, from La Maison Victor and use uni color(s), three things I do not often (or never) do, but that I should do more often.

Although I have only sewed the Candy and several Martini dresses from La Maison Victor, I actually own all magazines. So, I curled up on the coach and went through all of them. After much internal debate, I chose for the Heriette dress from edition 6, 2015. I googled which bloggers already made the dress, to get some extra tips about sizing etc. Like a sign, I saw So Popo had actually was one of ones that posted about the dress!

Like So Popo, I went for longer sleeves. I did a full bust adjustment (explained in the same La Maison Victor issue). The Hariette officially has many pieces, and all seams are top stitched. I went a different direction. I did not get any restrictions on hacking (which I had feared), so I dropped the waistband and cut the bodice and skirt in one pieces (while keeping the princess seams). I decided not to top stitch.

I did not have any uni fabric coupon in my closet that was big enough to turn into a dress for myself. I considered doing a color block, but in the end I just went to the store. I am a careful cutter, so I usually ignore fabric requirements. I bought 1.75 meter of Punti di Roma at Textielstad and started cutting without a clear plan. I had so much fabric, I assumed I did not have to be very careful. I was wrong. In the end I had to add a seam to the front side panels. They do not bother me though, they are actually a nice detail.

The Sew Challenge was not the only thing Davina had come up with. She also organized a blog meet, connected to the Sew Challenge to it. This way we would meet the other bloggers in person, and come up with the perfect set of chalenges. So, in the last weekend of August we had a great meeting with 20 bloggers (with me being the only Dutch). The evening was filled with good conversation and goodies! Davina had gathered an amazing amount of gifts, and I took home some of the best ones. I won a gift card from Madaline for 50 euro, a Compagnie M paper pattern, two pieces of fabric from Droomstoffen, and several haberdasheries.

Curious to see what the other blogs came up? I am one of the last ones to publish this week, so you can check out most entries already. I actually came up with the challenges for Margot, and she made something truly amazing. There will be two more weeks of challenges, so it is far from over, check out Davina's blog next week, for even more great outfits.