{"id":5551,"date":"2013-07-25T05:54:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2013-07-25T00:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T07:39:37","slug":"my-first-washi-a-wearable-muslin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=5551","title":{"rendered":"My First Washi: a wearable muslin?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I did it. I’ve finally become the trillionth person to make a Washi Dress<\/a>. And friends, I got the buffalo checks to match perfectly <\/em>on the sides.\u00a0<\/em>You know how hard that is for me, and I feel like I need to celebrate.<\/p>\n

But wait, not too fast. I may have reigned victorious with print-matching for this dress, but I don’t think the fit is spot on. Let me preface all this with the fact that Rae<\/a>‘s directions are awesome. So clear, so helpful, so easy. The pattern pieces are ingeniously designed (love the pockets!) and really, the sewing went without a hitch.<\/p>\n

A few things are going on here, I believe. Just as I couldn’t get the shirring to work well on K’s dress<\/a> that I posted on Monday, the Washi suffered the same loosey-goosey shirring in the back. So that’s issue number one.<\/p>\n

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Issue number two: even with a more snug back, the dress would still feel too big on me. I measured and re-measured myself (so unpleasant), and cut out a medium.\u00a0I’m thinking that this plaid linen fabric stretched out as I ironed it and maybe I just need to toss it in the wash to shrink it up a bit. I constantly have neckline gaping issues and you can see that it’s a little wavy on one side. I might have added to the problem by making the scoop deeper and eliminating the cut-out…<\/p>\n

And issue number three: the darts seem off. I need to re-draft the darts, mayhaps? It looks more pucker-y in the photo than it is in real-life (I hope).<\/p>\n

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Here I am, checking to make sure I’m not expecting a second baby. And hey, my hem is looking rather rippled. Sigh. This is such a lovely linen…I feel like I’m not doing it justice.<\/p>\n

It’s not a thick fabric, but I think for this dress, it’s adding bulk. I got the washed linen from here<\/a> and it looks like they’re all out of the grey colorway. Also, because the fabric is pretty sheer, I fully lined it with white batiste, adding even more bulk.<\/p>\n

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So. In terms of sewing, it was a breeze, but I think I’m going to have to consider this a sort of wearable muslin. The Washi is back in the queue to be made again in something with a lot more drape. I can see why this is such a popular pattern, and now that I’m feeling cocky about pattern-matching, I’m sure to conquer the Washi fit for next time — famous last words, no doubt.<\/p>\n

I leave you with my photography assistant, creatively using the camera remote to get some action shots of herself:<\/p>\n

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I did it. I’ve finally become the trillionth person to make a Washi Dress. And friends, I got the buffalo checks to match perfectly on the sides.\u00a0You know how hard that is for me, and I feel like I need to celebrate. But wait, not too fast. I may have reigned victorious with print-matching for this dress, but I don’t think the fit is spot on. Let me preface all this with the fact that Rae‘s directions are awesome. So clear, so helpful, so easy. The pattern pieces are ingeniously designed (love the pockets!) and really, the sewing went without a hitch. A few things are going on here, I believe. Just as I couldn’t get the shirring to work well on K’s dress that I posted on Monday, the Washi suffered the same loosey-goosey shirring in the back. So that’s issue number one. Issue number two: even with a more snug back, the dress would still feel too big on me. I measured and re-measured myself (so unpleasant), and cut out a medium.\u00a0I’m thinking that this plaid linen fabric stretched out as I ironed it and maybe I just need to toss it in the wash to shrink it up a bit. I constantly have neckline gaping issues and you can see that it’s a little wavy on one side. I might have added to the problem by making the scoop deeper and eliminating the cut-out… And issue number three: the darts seem off. I need to re-draft the darts, mayhaps? It looks more pucker-y in the photo than it is in real-life (I hope). Here I am, checking to make sure I’m not expecting a second baby. And hey, my hem is looking rather rippled. Sigh. This is such a lovely linen…I feel like I’m not doing it justice. It’s not a thick fabric, but I think for this dress, it’s adding bulk. I got the washed linen from here and it looks like they’re all out of the grey colorway. Also, because the fabric is pretty sheer, I fully lined it with white batiste, adding even more bulk. So. In terms of sewing, it was a breeze, but I think I’m going to have to consider this a sort of wearable muslin. The Washi is back in the queue to be made again in something with a lot more drape. I can see why this is such a popular pattern, and now that I’m feeling cocky about pattern-matching, I’m sure to conquer the Washi fit for next time — famous last words, no doubt. I leave you with my photography assistant, creatively using the camera remote to get some action shots of herself:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sewing","7":"category-sewing-for-me","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}