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From: pigeon
Date: 03-26-2007, 08:14 PM (1 of 8)
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Hi everyone, I have a question: I'm making a cute little sundress very similar to this: http://www.mccallpattern.com/item/M4814.htm?tab=infants_toddlers_children&page=6 the view without tiers or pockets. I used the same fabric for the bodice and the skirt, and it soo needs a sash or bow or something. I could do rick rack but I have the cutest ribbon that matches perfectly. I also have a piece of fabric that matches and I could do either a ribbon with a bow in front or a sash with the bow in back, both would be great. so the pattern doesn't have that. I have another pattern with a sash that I might steal, but I need to make looops somehow to keep it on? how would I do that? (I already made the dress so taking it apart would be problematic for me) Sorry if this seems very basic, but I'm not great at "winging it" completely! Any ideas, places to look? Thanks! 
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User: pigeon
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From: PaulineG
Date: 03-26-2007, 09:27 PM (2 of 8)
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Why not just hand stitch the sash to the dress at the side seams. Pin it in place and fold the ribbon backwards at the sideseam. Then pinch the dress and underneath the ribbon together and put in a few small whipstitchs. Or topstich it by machine over the side seam. Pauline
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User: PaulineG
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From: paroper
Date: 03-26-2007, 09:32 PM (3 of 8)
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You can make long cloth strips, fold them in half and then fold each half to the inside center, run a seam down each side of the strips and use these are fabric self-loops. You'll want these very thin. Place the strips in the seamline from just below the waist about 1/4 inch to a height that will allow the belt to slip easily. Thread loops are slightly more difficult and less durable. I use double thread. Sew by hand starting just below the waistline about 1/4 inch to above the waistline far enough to let the ribbon slip easily. Tie a knot, then go back down and back up so that you have 6 threads total traveling between the lower portion and the upper portion of your loop. Make sure that the loop is even and will lay flat. Then tie another knot. Now, make a loop around all the threads, as the loop tightens, go between the curve of the loop and the threads of your sash loop. This will make a little knot as it tightens. Keep these little knots even and make them all the way down the sash loop. Tie off when you get to the other end. When you put the loop on the other side, be sure that it is of equal length and height. pam
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User: paroper
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From: Magot
Date: 03-26-2007, 11:07 PM (4 of 8)
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Are you putting the sash around the natural waist? Wouldn't that look a little odd on the style of dress? Or are we talking just under the bodice?
love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
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From: paroper
Date: 03-26-2007, 11:16 PM (5 of 8)
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I'm sorry, I referred to the waist but I didn't look at the pattern. Don't forget that you can also just use a two piece sash and tie it in the back or even the front. I made this for my dgd last year and it was pretty large on her but she is thin.
pam
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User: paroper
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From: pigeon
Date: 03-27-2007, 06:47 AM (6 of 8)
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Okay, thanks you guys! yeah, I'm putting it on where the bodice and the skirt meet, not the natural waist. I think I will just sew it on, as making loops seems way to complicated. So I should just sew it on in two places, the two side seams, right? and I should sew it on a little on the top of the ribbon and a little on the bottom of the ribbon? Yes, I think so. okay. and it's okay to do that with the top part of the ribbon on the bodice and the bottom part of it on the dress? that won't cause trouble of some sort? or what about tacking it on right in the center, right at the seam where the skirt and bodice meet? maybe that won't be strong enough? I just have to put on this sash. It is screaming for sash! Pigeon |
User: pigeon
Member since: 03-15-2007 Total posts: 10 |
From: paroper
Date: 03-27-2007, 08:12 AM (7 of 8)
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If you sew it as two pieces in the side seam I wouldn't tack it anywhere unless the garment is big. I would just tie it in the center. You can also just put one thread loop in the center or you can just tack them with a bar tack near the center and not even machine sew them any place but the side seams. If you bar tack, I'd just bartack far enough from the center that you can tie the bow...or make the bow so that it won't come untied at all and bar tack the tied woe to the garment...I've done that too. There are all kinds of options. I've even put a fake bow, just make a long loop of ribbon to look like a bow, and a loop of ribbon to go over the center, tack the whole thing in place from the back. When it is sewin into the side seams, it'll stay in place forever. There are tons of options.
pam
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User: paroper
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 03-28-2007, 06:27 PM (8 of 8)
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I have made thread loops from regular sewing thread and a small crochet hook and then sewed them into side seams with an embroidery needle to hold a sash.. I have done it that way many times .. I usually just crochet the chain with 4 lengths of thread held together as 1, and it works great..
Sew With Love
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