Saturday, 25 September 2010

Maternity Leave Day 13 - Jump Rope Dress finale!

The buttons I ordered from eBay finally arrived, and as soon as I saw them I couldn't consider using anything else! They'd be perfect if they were a bit smaller and flatter, but I can see myself having to recycle them on every little dress I make in the next decade.

Placket buttons

Sleeve detail

Jump Rope Dress B

Sorry about the colour balance on the last photo. The comparitive positions of the sun and the non-rotating washing line were not in my favour! I used my machine's blind hem stitch for the hem, because after all the effort that's gone into this dress there's no way I'm doing the suggested straight stitch hem!

Now that I've completed the Sew Mama Sew Jump Rope Dress Sew-Along, taken up two pairs of Hubby T's trousers and cleaned the sewing room (mostly I directed while my mum did it) my to-do list now looks like this:



I WIN!!!

6 comments:

Bek said...

Super cute. The buttons are awesome!!

And congrats on beating the to do list!

CurlyPops said...

Oh wow those buttons really are supercute! Yah for finished 'to do' lists. Now you just need to add - HAVE BABY!

bec said...

Gorgeous buttons! And the dress is beautiful, hope she likes it haha (well, a 12mth might tell you!) Now relax and onto you best work!

Hawthorne C said...

Now time to put your feet up. That is one gorgeous dress with very special buttons. I enjoy your blog.

KirstenFleur said...

Go you!
I LOVE those buttons. Good find!

Karen Wilson said...

Those buttons are divine. I can see a little girl insisting that they have to be taken off and sewn onto every new dress she receives.

I can't wait to get our rotary clothes line so I can take nice photos of quilts! Of course I don't do THAT many quilts just at the moment.