| Cupcake Contest! | By Deepika on 11/19/09 12:45 PM |
| Cupcake Contest! |  | We are making CUPCAKES to celebrate 200,000 member milestone!
What kind of cupcake?
Your cupcake can either be:
- Baked and edible
- Sewn and be a pincushion
- Drawn or painted and could be a wall hanging
- Quilted and used as a square in a quilt
- Appliqued over something
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As of Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 5:00 PM Eastern we are 199,494 members.
The contest will end on November 30th and the winning cupcake (by random drawing) will be announced in the newsletter. The winner will also receive a surprize prize. May the best cupcake win! There is no limit to how many cupcakes you can enter. When you are done, simply upload the photo from your computer to the cupcake gallery. The photo will automatically be resized when you do so.
Upload your Cupcake Photo here
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| Costume Contest Winners | By Deepika on 11/12/09 2:17 PM |
Who doesn't love dressing up in costume, no matter what the time of year? Halloween gives us another opportunity to show off our sewing skills and creativity. In this Sewing Costume contest, contestants were asked to sew a costume in the month of October. The costumes did not have to be Halloween costumes and the costumes did not have to be solely for people. Pet costumes were allowed! Contestants could enter as many times as they wanted to, so there was no barrier to letting the creative juices flow!
There were 55 participants in this challenge and they made costumes for warriors and princesses, saloon girls and Elvises, prairie women and Victorian ladies.
Check out these costumes!
Aren't they imaginative?
Since it's a contest, we gotta have winners. Lets meet them, Shall we?
First Prize: BenaeQuee For Self Drafted Pattern
Benaequee's inspiration for this costume was Julie Newmar as Catwoman in the TV series "Batman", circa 1966. She wore this costume to NYC's comic book convention, Big Apple Comic Con. She had never made a body suit before and had to study up on making body suits to replicate the TV costume. She made a muslin first and then tranferred her work to her two-way stretch fabric. She inserted a ribbon cinch in the waist to give her that hourglass shape that the original Catwoman was famous for and then bound the seams in foldover elastic to allow for stretch and to protect her skin from the raw edges of the fabric. She also made the mask, ears, necklace, glove and claws. The only items she didn't make were the boots, belt and Catgun.
Thrill of thrills! Benaequee got to meet her inspiration for the costume at the Con, Julie Newmar. | Second Prize: vespabelle For Rosie the Riveter
vespabelle and her daughter were inspired to make this costume after they looked at the Library of Congress collection of photographs of America in the 1930s and 1940s. Also inspiring were the famous We Can Do It poster and Norman Rockwell cover of Rosie the Riveter, images of the women who replaced men in factories during WWII.
vespabelle used four vintage patterns to make this costume: 1960s Simplicity 8377, 1970s Simplicity 9533, 1943 McCall's 5290 and 1980s Simplicity 3806. She made the overalls of heavy dark blue denim purchased at an estate sale. and lined the backs of the straps, facing and underlap with flannel. She made Rosie's shirt from old poly/cotton workshirts belonging to her husband. The scarf was made from square of quilting cotton. Finally, she made a factory photo ID and several other buttons to give the outfit that authentic Rosie the Riveter look. |
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| Little Black Dress Contest Winners | By Deepika on 11/12/09 10:59 AM |
The little black dress popularized by Coco Chanel is indispensible to every woman's wardrobe. The little black dress can be worn as is or accessorized for daytime or night-time wear. The style of the little black dress is meant to be a classic one, not following the trendiest pattern, but lasting for years.
There were 31 participants in this elegant challenge. Contestants were asked to create a dress that followed the spirit of the little black dress in shades that are black or similar to black, such as dark chocolate brown or dark charcoal. Participants were also asked to provide three photos of their creations: one of the plain dress, one of the dress accessorized for daywear and one of the dress adorned for evening wear.
Here are our oh-so-fashionable entries
Aren't they classic? Meet the creators of the winning outfits:
First Prize: elainemay For Self Drafted Pattern: 167033-1000 LBD (Givenchy inspired)
Inspired by Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Tiffany's, elainemay created a below-the-knee length slim sheath. Audrey Hepburn's dress in the film was a floor length, gathered waist Hubert de Givenchy gown. One of elainemay's online sewing heroes is BurdaStyle veteran Myk. When she saw the babydoll style dress Myk made that was inspired by the same gown, elainemay began to dream about creating a similar piece. She says, "The LBD contest finally gave me the kick in the pants to get around to drafting it!"
She drafted the pattern for this dress using some pieces from the lining pattern of Burda WoF 5-2008 dress 125 as a block. Having made the Burda dress previously, she knew it had the kind of slim fit she was looking for. She used some deep black wool suiting to create this winning entry. | Second Prize: Idunna For Simplicity: 2550 Misses Dresses: Project Runway
When Idunna decided to make this dress, she realized that she had a hole in her wardrobe...she doesn't have many dresses. So this multi-purpose dress is just the thing for her. In deciding to make this dress, she filled a need for the perfect dress for evening wear, as well as fun daywear (see her photo for The LBD goes Country).
Idunna opted for longer, rather than shorter, sleeves. The dress pattern did not call for a lining, but she added one, following the advice of PR member twistedangel. She loves the style of the polyester rayon stretch jacquard dress and feels it was a great experience for her to sew something new and more complicated. |
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| New Butterick Patterns | By Deepika on 11/11/09 11:20 AM |
Announcing Butterick Patterns. PatternReview is now carrying Butterick fashions, giving you even more great patterns to choose from! Buy patterns and support your favorite site. Take a look at what Butterick has designed for Winter 2009!
Look at this great stretch knit top!
How about this belted cardigan in a tunic length? As I've said before, I'm all about tunics this year!
Why dress down when you're cooking? Make one of these really cute aprons to jazz you up when you're in the kitchen!
Check out the latest fashions in the Butterick Winter Collection here!
To check out all Butterick Patterns offered on PR, click here!
Friends of PR members get 10% discount on Butterick and all other patterns and FREE Domestic shipping for orders of $25 and more. All others get free shipping for orders of $35 or more. |
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