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Getting my money's worth

Saturday, May 4


I made another mission maxi dress last night. My friend is having her graduation party today in Coventry so naturally I wanted something I could comfortably travel in. Most of my clothes do not fit me anymore  because I have been at the cakes. As you can see from the pictures, it is obvious that I have added a couple of pounds.


Mr.Dibs has been  making funny little noises about my weight gain....muttering here and there. I ignore him of course. He recently decided actions speak louder than words, and registered me for the Great North Run in September. It is a half marathon, and he says he will do it with me. hmmmmm. Last week he dragged me to a running shop, to get me fitted for running shoes. 30 minutes and £100 later, I had a pair of running shoes. Now, the only reason I am going to run that half marathon, is because of that money. I need to squeeze £100 worth of running from those shoes, just as I am sqeezing my money's worth out of the mission maxi pattern.
 

 I used a jersey fabric I bought last year in Utrecht when I went to Holland. It is quite soft and drapey, quite different from the fabric I used for the last mission maxi dress, which was thicker.  The fabric I used last time got a lot of love from alot of you. As I said, I got it from Walthamstow market, in the first fabric shop on your right when walking down the market from the station. I can't remember the name of the shop. They do have alot of border prints, so if the fabric I used is sold out, I'm sure you will see other nice border prints.


I have somehow lost the pattern for the neck and armhole bindings for this dress, and cut new ones using an estimate of what I thought the original width of the binding was. Unfortunately when sewing it, I found out it was really small, so I had to unpick the stitches. Halfway through the unpicking, I decided to stop, because, sod it, it was 2am, and I had just finished a bottle of wine, and I was not thinking straight. Unpicking stitches in a knit fabric is seriously not cool. I cut off the neck binding,because the wine whispered it was the best thing to do, then cut a really wide band and used it as the binding. The result looks like a cowl neck. It is not the end of the world as I thought because my friend and her sister-in-law quite liked it, so, yes, like a phoenix, my damaged dress rose out of the ashes, or is it from the ashes?


 Ok, this last picture captures perfectly my mood in the garden. My garden in London is quite miniscule, so I was excited to be in a really big garden, and I was literally jumping for joy. Now if you will excuse me, there is wine to be drunk, and cake to be devoured. To heck with Mr.Dibs and his weight gain mutterings, 5 more slices of cake today won't make any difference. Or will they?
  



14 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! I love the neckline "mistake" too. :)

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  2. I love your bit about what the wine-whispered... does that make red-wine the devil on one-shoulder, and white-wine the angel on the other shoulder then ;) ?

    P.S. Print jerseys really suit you - I think we can safely say that they are a style 'n' wardrobe staple for you hun!

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  3. lovely dress, and what a fabric !!!! maybe i should have wine when sewing too ;)

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  4. pah, pounds-shmounds you look gorgeous x

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  5. Yet another lovely mission maxi. Maxi's suit excellently.

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  6. The dress is great on you ! I really love the print !
    And the advantage to sew is that if to gain some weight, you can adapt the pattern ! I have been doing it for my vogue 8379 pattern as I also gain some weight...

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  7. "Been at the cakes" hahahaha! Whatever, you look great. The cowl looks like a happy accident. I've been eyeing that pattern, maybe I'll have a go soon.

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  8. Another great version of the mission maxi dress. I love that wine was involved in the design process on this one :)

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  9. Hey Dibs love the maxi the fabric is total awesomeness (I can't see the cowl properly-the cardy of sexyness is obscuring it) but cut out the cakes yo-a close friend of mine died from a heart attack at 37 and I (selfishly) want the bloggy entertainment of the Dibsian universe to continue for at least a couple of more decades so I'm totally on board with Mr. Dibs' running plan- jump on it woman, jump on it.

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  10. that mr dibs is crafty with those shoes. the buying of them was a clever contract...

    eat wine, drink cake, and vice versa, because you look bangin' in that maxi!

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  11. I love this! Yet another stellar version! But ohhhhhhhhh, I hear you on unpicking knit fabric-- it's basically the worst thing EVER. The cowl-y effect you're getting here is RAD! And girl, you always look hot! I've reluctantly started running recently (did a 5K last Saturday and have another one next Saturday) because I'm so pathetically out of shape that I get winded going up the steps to my third-floor office. :( I know it's good for me, but it's just so hard to make myself run!

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  12. This is a lovely dress and some seriously beautifu fabric.

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  13. I love this dress, the neckline is really flattering on you. Good luck with the training. I hope Mr Dibs is trains and runs with you.

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  14. I bought this pattern and it's all your fault :) Miss you girl!

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