Comments on: A Dress for the Ball http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/ Color the Ordinary Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:54:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Caron Marsh http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-17895 Caron Marsh Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:44:32 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-17895 Dear Kathy Mack, I have bought this poattern - the last in the shop, cut out the fabric and then realised that the sewing instructions are not in the pack. I am making a bridesmaid dress for my wedding in 3 weeks and am in a mess. Have you still got the instructions. Could you scan them and let me have a copy please for Burda 9757 please, please to et me out of this mess? Caron (Yorkshire UK) Dear Kathy Mack,
I have bought this poattern – the last in the shop, cut out the fabric and then realised that the sewing instructions are not in the pack. I am making a bridesmaid dress for my wedding in 3 weeks and am in a mess. Have you still got the instructions. Could you scan them and let me have a copy please for Burda 9757 please, please to et me out of this mess?

Caron (Yorkshire UK)

]]> By: Kim http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-8857 Kim Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:24:34 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-8857 Kathy, I found the issue of Threads that has the zipper instructions: Number 89, July 2000, page 45. It's actually an article about embellished zippers, and is featured on the cover. If you don't have this issue, let me know and I'll make a copy of it for you. Kim Kathy,
I found the issue of Threads that has the zipper instructions: Number 89, July 2000, page 45. It’s actually an article about embellished zippers, and is featured on the cover.

If you don’t have this issue, let me know and I’ll make a copy of it for you.
Kim

]]> By: Gabrielle http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-7992 Gabrielle Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:02:08 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-7992 Absolutely gorgeous dress, so beautifully made. I am in love with the printed silk fabric. Your daughter looks wonderful in it. Absolutely gorgeous dress, so beautifully made. I am in love with the printed silk fabric. Your daughter looks wonderful in it.

]]> By: Monica http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-7815 Monica Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:14:00 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-7815 What a beautiful daughter and what a darling dress. You're so skilled! I'm glad you're Uncle Ted won... DH and I both voted for him! What a beautiful daughter and what a darling dress. You’re so skilled! I’m glad you’re Uncle Ted won… DH and I both voted for him!

]]> By: melanie http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-7153 melanie Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:22:03 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-7153 That dress is just beautiful, it is something I would have loved to have had when I was a little girl. I think the best part of it is that even though she looks elegant and stunning she still looks like *gasp* a girl and not as though someone has dressed her up too look much older than she is. This has been a theme my husband and I have notcied lately in our circles and our national political magazine even had "Why do we dress our daughters as Skanks?" as their cover story recently and we we happy that we weren't the only ones who have noticed (we were getting a little worried that we were becoming puritanical) Of course, I have to say, in the craft blogging circles this never seems to be an issue as crafters know how much more effective a beautiful pintuck or perfect pleat is in making a child/pre-teen look mature and elegant without looking, well, skanky. That dress is just beautiful, it is something I would have loved to have had when I was a little girl. I think the best part of it is that even though she looks elegant and stunning she still looks like *gasp* a girl and not as though someone has dressed her up too look much older than she is. This has been a theme my husband and I have notcied lately in our circles and our national political magazine even had “Why do we dress our daughters as Skanks?” as their cover story recently and we we happy that we weren’t the only ones who have noticed (we were getting a little worried that we were becoming puritanical)

Of course, I have to say, in the craft blogging circles this never seems to be an issue as crafters know how much more effective a beautiful pintuck or perfect pleat is in making a child/pre-teen look mature and elegant without looking, well, skanky.

]]> By: Kim http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-7116 Kim Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:51:36 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-7116 Beautiful dress! I wrestled with zippers for years. Then, in 2003, my future DIL asked me to make the flower girls' dresses. Two very long zippers: eeeek! That was when I learned to make a hand-picked zipper (thank you, Threads Magazine, and thank you, my Dear Husband, for tolerating the size of my archives). The zippers went in easily and the effect was beautiful. Although it was handwork, I don't think the process was any longer and it was certainly easier on the blood pressure. It's the only method I've used ever since. Beautiful dress!

I wrestled with zippers for years. Then, in 2003, my future DIL asked me to make the flower girls’ dresses. Two very long zippers: eeeek!

That was when I learned to make a hand-picked zipper (thank you, Threads Magazine, and thank you, my Dear Husband, for tolerating the size of my archives). The zippers went in easily and the effect was beautiful. Although it was handwork, I don’t think the process was any longer and it was certainly easier on the blood pressure. It’s the only method I’ve used ever since.

]]> By: Amber http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-6914 Amber Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:10:17 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-6914 I think I missed or forgot your first plug for your Uncle Ted, but if I can say I "know" you, then I know TWO neices of Oregon governors! I have a friend who loves to tell this story about her aunt, Barbara Roberts. She was in Boston, at a bar, and there was a fellow telling loud stories and kept repeating "OR-eee-GONE," and she quietly corrected him, saying "Actually, it's "Or(uh)gun." "No, no, my son lives there with my grandchildren, it's OR-eee-GONE." "Well, perhaps he does, but it's pronouced Or(uh)gun." "Listen, I am a HARVARD professor, I know of what I speak: it's OR-eee-GONE." "Buddy, I was the Governor. It's pronounced Or(uh)gun." I think I missed or forgot your first plug for your Uncle Ted, but if I can say I “know” you, then I know TWO neices of Oregon governors! I have a friend who loves to tell this story about her aunt, Barbara Roberts. She was in Boston, at a bar, and there was a fellow telling loud stories and kept repeating “OR-eee-GONE,” and she quietly corrected him, saying “Actually, it’s “Or(uh)gun.”
“No, no, my son lives there with my grandchildren, it’s OR-eee-GONE.”
“Well, perhaps he does, but it’s pronouced Or(uh)gun.”
“Listen, I am a HARVARD professor, I know of what I speak: it’s OR-eee-GONE.”
“Buddy, I was the Governor. It’s pronounced Or(uh)gun.”

]]> By: Dee http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-6910 Dee Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:18:13 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-6910 What a beautiful dress, your daughter looks beautiful in it. :) What a beautiful dress, your daughter looks beautiful in it. :)

]]> By: June http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-6904 June Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:07:49 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-6904 I love the dress and she looks so beautiful in it--I hope she twirled around the dance floor in perfect glee! I love the dress and she looks so beautiful in it–I hope she twirled around the dance floor in perfect glee!

]]> By: kim http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-6882 kim Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:13:23 +0000 http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/01/09/a-dress-for-the-ball/#comment-6882 I am impressed. (can you make one in a little larger size?) ;) I am impressed. (can you make one in a little larger size?) ;)

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