Way back in 1979, when this pattern was fresh and new, I fell in love with and purchased it. I made the dress out of a matt yellow rose-printed satin, and it was stunning. The heavier-bodied fabric makes all the difference in how the dress turns out, especially in the skirt volume. Now that you have the pattern sized for you, it may be worth giving it another go.
Dimity is too lightweight for the volume of skirt panels. But don't give up on the pattern. You did a fantastic job and it is very flattering on you. Make it again with a slightly heavier fabric and then you can swish to your hearts content. Hope you had a lovely birthday
The part I don't get is why we are dyeing fabric when there's already black fabric out there, with or without the flowers. One of my favorite dresses in this period, quite possibly from the Gunne Sax line or something similar, used the sweetest black fabric with a dainty floral print and I literally wore that thing out.
I actually made this dress in 1981 (actually made 3) for bridesmaid dresses for my brother’s wedding. They turned out pretty well. I had a very small bust and waist back in those days, before 4 children. I still have the pattern!
Lmao that you also used music that Rachel often uses. It was worth your trouble to trim the collar. It needed it aesthetically. And Candy and the skirt lights was magic. Totally get why you wanted to use the fabric you did. It’s lovely!
Oh yeah, the upbeat music is from Epidemic Sound (home of the royalty free music) and I love the driving beat to it. And yeah, the trim looks really cool once it is on, but it is THICC!
I remember making that dress in 1980 while in high school. It's a great pattern. I made the full length version using pale blue and white gingham check with white details. I remember fitting it to a padded strapless bra, hahaha, because at 15 I was flat as a pancake. I wore a gored taffeta half slip with it, like a flared petticoat without the ruffles.
When you said disaster struck I was reminded that my sewing machine DIED on the final and fancy stitched hem of my last project. I’m glad that wasn’t your problem too! That was not fun
I really like the dress on you. I hope you try it again with more appropriate fabric and adjusted for the undergarments you want to wear. I enjoyed watching you swish the skirt, and the jewelry you chose is gorgeous with it.
Absolutely all of your commentary makes me want to be your friend. From the FBA to "whatever-ing" the back to your existential crisis and morning coffee, I relate. Exquisite work. 10/10.
Oh Kay. I'm almost at minute four. And I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Best use of the dance of madness... possibly ever. Like, you know, fer real. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
The dress is lovely. Throw in a lining and wear it to the grocery store. And bust adjustments bring up All the feels. I don't know why. I think it's just one of those things.
I think the trim is very effective. Yes, please make more tutorials on sizing up and FBA. You are a joy to watch. Even though I'm watching this a long time after it was made I would like to ask for a sway back adjustment. Like you don't have anything else to do! Thank you.
I think this is super flattering on you -- taking the time to do a proper FBA makes all the difference ( As a small- waisted busty person I have to do this on everything I wear if I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a sack.🤪). Love the trim on the collar, too!
Thank you so much. It was fun to watch. And special thank´s for the "disaster in 3-2-1". Because I managed to do the exact same thing while sewing a vest for my husband. And undoing the seam I was telling me nonstop : Don´t punch a hole, don`t punch a hole, because there was no fabric left to do any part again... I feel myself so understood and not alone in my chaotic sewing with you. Thank you!
You did a great job sizing this up! The dress looks great on you!! LOVING the lights!!! Amazing! Everybody needs time off sometimes!! Take a week and rejuvenate yourself!! 🥰 we will still be here when ya get back!
I love how the dress came out - especially as a sewer with similar issues in sizing/sewing errors, etc - it really spoke to my personal experiences. I think this dress would be so nice if used with a sheer black under-dress - perhaps in a voile, with long poofy sleeves and skirt, worn beneath the lights - which are genius, by the way. It would be even more "witchy" and romantic.
The kady i babysat for made this dress for my "JR attendant" formal at graduation in 1980. It was baby blue satan w/ white trim. Its the prettiest garmet I've ever owned.
Fantastic job 👏👏 yes please more sizing up videos and if you can make them more detailed ( step by step sizing up the patterns) would be highly appropriate it especially that we have the same measurements so my sewing adventures would be way easier!! 😉😉😂🙏💙
Thank you! And I am happy to be more detailed in the future, but this was the first time I had ever done that FBA shenanigans. However, I like the fit so much better I may be doing many more and will be more detailed for all!
I have had a Gunne Sax pattern for about 10 years waiting for me to size it up. I have gone up a few more sizes since I got it. It's the same pattern that "aperfecttouch" is using. I was in high school when the Gunne Sax line came out I loved them. I bought a ready made one. but I didn't wear it anywhere until the 80's for my wedding.
I had two Gunne Sax dresses and loved the line. The purple taffeta Gunne Sax "Western showgirl " knee-length dress was worn to every high school dance I thought I could get away with! Loved that one. The other was a full-length ivory lace-covered confection that I wore to my prom. I have no idea what happened to them, but I hope they are well-loved wherever they are. Great dresses!
You are so wonderful Stephanie, I feel I know you. yesterday I had a go at dying a dress navy blue and it's now tie dyed. mmm I have been following along whilst sewing today. It's been a good day however the seam ripper is vey much part of the day. Thank you for your entertaining videos. They make me laugh and reassure me I'm not the only one sewing in chaos and loving (mostly) every minute of it. Greetings from a very cold (by our standards) Sydney Australia Robertaxxx
Totally understand that this isn't your style, but it's SO PRETTY ON YOU! That trim might have been frustrating but I am LOVING IT! The trim sets the whole dress off and I love the color! Just so in love with this dress on you. 🥰 And the FBA looks great!
Oh, i LOVE the dress. It looks both goth-y and summer-y and the skirts are excellent. Thanks for sharing this with us! Edit: I hope if you make this pattern again in the future, that you like the dress better the next time!
Thank you for taking so much time to show us the finished product! Its my favorite part of these videos, and so often you get just a quick shot or two of the finished garment. So thank you!
I’m excited to say that I wore many of many Gunne Sax dresses n formals! It was my absolute favorite line!!! Maybe I should try sewing one for fun!!! 💜
Particularly enjoying the saucy ankle content. Nice Bernadette shout out! The dress looks lovely on you. Try layering it over a black dress with a nice floofy petticoat. :)
The FBA definitely came out very nice! I resisted doing FBAs for the longest time and just graded out to the "right" size for my bust measurement. And now that I've learned the magic of FBAs, I'm kicking myself for waiting so long. I think the dress came out very nice and once you add the underskirt, it will be perfect!
Always excited to see a new video. Dyeing fabric can be a pain, I once tried to dye a skirt black and it turned 3 shades of purple. Your dress turned out adorable.
Just at the part where Stephanie is dipping the fabric into the black dye, youtube gifted me with a dawn commercial where they are washing oil off of baby birds. I bout died 🤣.
I need to learn how to make a full belly adjustment :P it's always fun to try ot scale patterns to yourself when you're a brick with boobs. You made me laugh more today than I have all week, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sometimes shoves stuff in the Bad Clothing Corner to contemplate what it's done while I go do something else so I have something to show for a day's work, fitting is so dang difficult! It took me a lot of photos and a Zoom meeting with a friend who knows about fitting but I now have a princess seamed bodice block, I am unstoppable! (well, until I try to do one of those curved seams on a machine, then there's a whole lot of language we don't use in front of Grandma..l I'm just gonna stick to my endless hours of handsewing, thanks)
I'm in a spot where I'm trying to relearn everything I had managed to figure out over sewing for 20 years. I'm trying to psyche myself up by repeating "Now I can learn how to do it *right*." Except that's not how things seem to be going. I love the Bad Clothing Corner, so Bad Projects can go and think about what they've done while I do something more satisfying to recover. I'll get back to them, but first I need to regain a Good Self Image and have some tea.
Wow! My mom made this dress for me for Jr prom. Dusty pink with tiny pinstripe of white. White satin for top cuffy collar thing, straps, and waist strap. Very much like the photo on the pattern.
The final dress was so cute (even with the fit issues) and I love the spooky themed videos 🎃. I’m a beginner at sewing and love watching other people sew, it’s so inspiring
As someone who always bought the wrong size patterns for myself as a baby sewer, I know the struggles of having to upsize the bust. Your bodice fits wonderfully and looks great.
@@dawnelder9046 it’s actually the other way round. Better for me to make it for my shoulders and hips (which are usually a 12/14) then just FBA it for my bust (which is usually a 20.) I’d rather FBA than have to draft literally everything else on the pattern. At that point I’m just making the pattern completely from scratch if I bought the size for my bust
How stunning! I love the light-up skirt! And the piping around the straps & bodice is gorgeous! I usually make Harajuku style or use Issey Miyake Vogue patterns, but I enjoy watching everyone else's style. Hope you had a good birthday! 🍩🍩🍩
My mom made me a Gunne Sax dress from this exact pattern when I was in junior high, and it kills me that I have absolutely no photos of me wearing it, because I loved that thing.
P.S. Your bold claim is completely wrong with respect to me. I have never heard of this human being, nor have I ever seen her before. Bear in mind, I only started watching _you_ maybe, what, a week or so ago? And that's after a few months of watching SewRena on top of years of watching Crow's Eye. I don't even sew, apart from a course I took one summer ca. 1983 at my sewist mother's insistence, in which I completed a pincushion she still has and a knit top I liked but have long since outgrown, in addition to starting a skirt I never finished. I clicked on this bid solely because of what I just said above regarding my immense and abiding love of this dress from personal experience.
Watching the finished result now. Congrats on eventually finding the path to sizing it up properly; my mother quit making me clothes when I reach the point red just physically departed too much from the pattern, because by her own admission she's terrible at alterations! I hope someday you will treat yourself to a version of this dress in an attractive fabric.* (By which I do not necessarily mean a fabric in the Gunne Sax/Laura Ashley vein if that aspect is not your thing.) Grasped that the point of this particular project across the various makers was to give it a spooky twist, but such mixed feelings seeing the beautiful pattern made up in such a drab fabric. I'm genuinely curious what the dyeing of the fabric was for - I would go check out the links before writing this comment, except that I'm concerned with my ADHD I might not remember to come back for months - was it a requirement of the project so that it fit with the ones other people were doing, or did you hate the dimity and figure you might as well dye it black rather than go buy actual black fabric? In the videos I've seen so far, all the parts that involved hard work made some sense: trying to stick to what that particular vintage a pattern might have called for, or working hard at saving a rare pattern that had been nibbled on or left in mold-inducing conditions, or examining in minutest detail every difference between a vintage pattern and its modern reproduction, or the time you made up the reproduction pattern simply because so many fans kept begging you to do that. This time I just couldn't fathom why you were going to all that trouble to dye the fabric a color that you could go out and buy. It doesn't seem like it could be that the fabric itself is vintage, because if that was the point, then I would have thought dyeing it cancelled that out anyway. I know I sound like I'm griping just to gripe, but I honestly feel like I'm missing something here. * ETA: oh, well never mind the suggestion of making it up again in a different fabric sometime, now that I see you didn't actually like the style of the 👗 . Though I hear you about the trim and how it added time, it really did save the dress in terms of the dyed fabric still having some redeeming accompaniment.
Excellent job. Looks really cute on you, aside from your comments. Good for a summer dress. As usual, loved your commentary on your process and your mistakes. Makes it easier for me to laugh when I make a muck of something (also frequently sewing).
Hi, and I am loving your page! But I first have to say I have this pattern (still even now) and have made it for my 8th grade dance (it weighted a ton, mine was just like the picture) Thanks for sharing this
Loved the outcome and as much as sewing in the trim sucked, it definitely needed it. Other Gunnesax videos I know of are Juul Thijssen and Shannon makes (which was a hilarious take on the Mask as well!)
I know this is rather old at this point but and I have no idea how I came across it but as soon as I saw the pattern I knew I had to reach out. This is the same dress pattern that my mom used to make my Junior Prom dress in 1980! We even made it in pink like the pattern envelope show. I bet she even still has the pattern around her house somewhere. Hilarious to find it in use now
You did a beautiful job with the dress. The front of the bodice in particular fits you so well, and the skirt style is beautiful! I hope you try making it again with a different weight of fabric as it’s so pretty. The lights were super cute too. A lovely birthday dress! Enjoy your week off!
I actually made that dress in middle school as my sewing class project. I had found it in my granny's pattern stash. Really wish I had that dress & Granny's pattern stash now.
Fabulous. I had that pattern and made the dress in the late 80’s. I had kept the dress and my daughter discovered it in my favourite items chest and claimed it mid 2000’s. I had to take it in for her. I think it is/was a classic item.
Lol, I just found you on UA-cam... I am new to sewing.... And knowing that piece of 411....I needed to Laugh ! Love the way you make videos !!!... I cracked up especially the Opra Music as that Beautiful fabric slowly goes into the EVIL Liqued....
How cool, this pattern was my 1979 and 1980 prom dress (two different guys at different schools so I saved money!). Your dress came out very fun with the lights. Your size-up was impressive. Wish I'd saved the pattern of the one I did as a teenager for my sister. It went from 14 to 2x and was the type Gunne Sax with the horseshoe collar, at least that's what we called that style back then. It had the faux lace up bodice, lace sleeves and wide fitted cuffs. Miles of ribbon and tiny trim stitched on...she was gorgeous in it and then right away went on a massive diet and it never got worn again. haha
I loved the black dye of the fabric. I was one of those plus size girls in the 80's and loved gunnesax. My grandmother sized it up for me. You were lovely in this gown.
I hope you had a good bday! Looks like it. Oh love the dress to but hey I LOVED the 1970's the music was so awesome!!!! Gives you a Rush , n Deep Purple ohh... baby you aren't in Kansas anymore. Love those dazed of concerts!
I think it's really cute. I sure would love to get a sized up version of this like yours. I would have NO IDEA how to size it up! and the largest one I can find ( for about $60!! Ouch) is a ten. I am a high bust 47, full bust 54, waist 49. I think I need to learn how to d the sizing up thing. I got the FBA thing down a while ago after everything I made fell right off my shoulders.
Way back in 1979, when this pattern was fresh and new, I fell in love with and purchased it. I made the dress out of a matt yellow rose-printed satin, and it was stunning. The heavier-bodied fabric makes all the difference in how the dress turns out, especially in the skirt volume. Now that you have the pattern sized for you, it may be worth giving it another go.
Dimity is too lightweight for the volume of skirt panels. But don't give up on the pattern. You did a fantastic job and it is very flattering on you. Make it again with a slightly heavier fabric and then you can swish to your hearts content. Hope you had a lovely birthday
I would just line ths digits adding weight and avoiding those clinging to legs issues.
The part I don't get is why we are dyeing fabric when there's already black fabric out there, with or without the flowers. One of my favorite dresses in this period, quite possibly from the Gunne Sax line or something similar, used the sweetest black fabric with a dainty floral print and I literally wore that thing out.
I actually made this dress in 1981 (actually made 3) for bridesmaid dresses for my brother’s wedding. They turned out pretty well. I had a very small bust and waist back in those days, before 4 children. I still have the pattern!
Laughing so hard at the “stream of consciousness” script because this, in fact, is how Stephanie usually speaks when she’s talking her ideas out loud…
the above statement tell no lies....
Stephanie, you’re not alone. The narration, the mistakes, I’m just glad I’m not also trying to take video while dealing with everything else.
Stephanie makes me laugh and now I'm not the only one with a freaking seam ripper!
😂 I love her💕💕
The grey with flowers gives a Persephone vibe that is somehow so much cooler than I thought it would be.
The cut of the bodice looks very flattering on you in my opinion. In a heavier fabric it would be perfect !
Thank you so much! I do enjoy it and yes, I think heavier fabric would be great!
Lmao that you also used music that Rachel often uses.
It was worth your trouble to trim the collar. It needed it aesthetically.
And Candy and the skirt lights was magic. Totally get why you wanted to use the fabric you did. It’s lovely!
Oh yeah, the upbeat music is from Epidemic Sound (home of the royalty free music) and I love the driving beat to it. And yeah, the trim looks really cool once it is on, but it is THICC!
This pattern was used to make my performance dress for my senior year of HS. My granddaughter wishes I still had that dress.
When i was a girl i wore lots of gunnesack dresses. I loved feeling like i could be a vintage princess
The Rachel Maksy music at the 3:00 mark was a nice touch. That fabric was hideous. You saved it, IMHO. The final dress was awesome.
Aww thank you! Epidemic Sound for the WIN! I am so glad you enjoyed my take on the dimity.
I remember making that dress in 1980 while in high school. It's a great pattern. I made the full length version using pale blue and white gingham check with white details. I remember fitting it to a padded strapless bra, hahaha, because at 15 I was flat as a pancake. I wore a gored taffeta half slip with it, like a flared petticoat without the ruffles.
Sounds gorgeous
My mom made this dress for me in 1982 for my prom. It was green voile (lined) and I loved it!!!
When you said disaster struck I was reminded that my sewing machine DIED on the final and fancy stitched hem of my last project. I’m glad that wasn’t your problem too! That was not fun
I really like the dress on you. I hope you try it again with more appropriate fabric and adjusted for the undergarments you want to wear. I enjoyed watching you swish the skirt, and the jewelry you chose is gorgeous with it.
Absolutely all of your commentary makes me want to be your friend. From the FBA to "whatever-ing" the back to your existential crisis and morning coffee, I relate. Exquisite work. 10/10.
OMG, this was the exact pattern my Mom used for my prom dress in 1979!! This made my day!
Oh Kay. I'm almost at minute four. And I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Best use of the dance of madness... possibly ever. Like, you know, fer real.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
The dress is lovely. Throw in a lining and wear it to the grocery store.
And bust adjustments bring up All the feels. I don't know why. I think it's just one of those things.
Boo!
@@Seamstressed EEK!
I think the trim is very effective. Yes, please make more tutorials on sizing up and FBA. You are a joy to watch. Even though I'm watching this a long time after it was made I would like to ask for a sway back adjustment. Like you don't have anything else to do! Thank you.
Beautiful. The fabric turned out spooky-pretty with the gray color and kind of "ghost flowers" showing through.
I think this is super flattering on you -- taking the time to do a proper FBA makes all the difference ( As a small- waisted busty person I have to do this on everything I wear if I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a sack.🤪). Love the trim on the collar, too!
You have literally become one of my favorite UA-camrs for plus size vintage sewing, you are hilarious and I love your videos!!!
Just wonderful. The Closet Historian and Diane Deziel show how to alter patterns but we would lose the entertainment... Loved this one.
Birdy
Thank you so much. It was fun to watch. And special thank´s for the "disaster in 3-2-1". Because I managed to do the exact same thing while sewing a vest for my husband. And undoing the seam I was telling me nonstop : Don´t punch a hole, don`t punch a hole, because there was no fabric left to do any part again...
I feel myself so understood and not alone in my chaotic sewing with you. Thank you!
oh my god you totally maksy'd that video down to the music , YOU ROCK
You did a great job sizing this up! The dress looks great on you!! LOVING the lights!!! Amazing!
Everybody needs time off sometimes!! Take a week and rejuvenate yourself!! 🥰 we will still be here when ya get back!
Thank you so much! Yeah, I am gonna take a day and decide what to do.
I love how the dress came out - especially as a sewer with similar issues in sizing/sewing errors, etc - it really spoke to my personal experiences. I think this dress would be so nice if used with a sheer black under-dress - perhaps in a voile, with long poofy sleeves and skirt, worn beneath the lights - which are genius, by the way. It would be even more "witchy" and romantic.
Oh that is a great idea! Maybe I could do that if I take the dress to somewhere that isn't 80 degree and humid basically year round. 😂
The kady i babysat for made this dress for my "JR attendant" formal at graduation in 1980. It was baby blue satan w/ white trim. Its the prettiest garmet I've ever owned.
Fantastic job 👏👏 yes please more sizing up videos and if you can make them more detailed ( step by step sizing up the patterns) would be highly appropriate it especially that we have the same measurements so my sewing adventures would be way easier!! 😉😉😂🙏💙
Thank you! And I am happy to be more detailed in the future, but this was the first time I had ever done that FBA shenanigans. However, I like the fit so much better I may be doing many more and will be more detailed for all!
I would love more sizing up, bust 46 here, but my hip is 44. I size up boobs or size down hips.
Looks like your on fire when you were in the dark. It's so pretty looking.
Ok now I see why it looked like there was a bunch of red lazer dots on the skirt... you added lights! Very cool.
Id wear a long-sleeved black stretchy tee under that in the Fall. And combat boots. It’s cute.
I have had a Gunne Sax pattern for about 10 years waiting for me to size it up. I have gone up a few more sizes since I got it. It's the same pattern that "aperfecttouch" is using. I was in high school when the Gunne Sax line came out I loved them. I bought a ready made one. but I didn't wear it anywhere until the 80's for my wedding.
I had two Gunne Sax dresses and loved the line. The purple taffeta Gunne Sax "Western showgirl " knee-length dress was worn to every high school dance I thought I could get away with! Loved that one. The other was a full-length ivory lace-covered confection that I wore to my prom. I have no idea what happened to them, but I hope they are well-loved wherever they are. Great dresses!
You are so wonderful Stephanie, I feel I know you. yesterday I had a go at dying a dress navy blue and it's now tie dyed. mmm I have been following along whilst sewing today. It's been a good day however the seam ripper is vey much part of the day. Thank you for your entertaining videos. They make me laugh and reassure me I'm not the only one sewing in chaos and loving (mostly) every minute of it. Greetings from a very cold (by our standards) Sydney Australia Robertaxxx
Totally understand that this isn't your style, but it's SO PRETTY ON YOU! That trim might have been frustrating but I am LOVING IT! The trim sets the whole dress off and I love the color! Just so in love with this dress on you. 🥰 And the FBA looks great!
Thank you so much Aleta! That means so much to me.
Oh, i LOVE the dress. It looks both goth-y and summer-y and the skirts are excellent. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Edit: I hope if you make this pattern again in the future, that you like the dress better the next time!
Thank you for taking so much time to show us the finished product! Its my favorite part of these videos, and so often you get just a quick shot or two of the finished garment. So thank you!
I’m excited to say that I wore many of many Gunne Sax dresses n formals! It was my absolute favorite line!!! Maybe I should try sewing one for fun!!! 💜
Particularly enjoying the saucy ankle content. Nice Bernadette shout out!
The dress looks lovely on you. Try layering it over a black dress with a nice floofy petticoat. :)
I bet it looks even more amazing with a long black petticoat underneath.
The FBA definitely came out very nice! I resisted doing FBAs for the longest time and just graded out to the "right" size for my bust measurement. And now that I've learned the magic of FBAs, I'm kicking myself for waiting so long. I think the dress came out very nice and once you add the underskirt, it will be perfect!
RIGHT! I am shocked with how well it fit after I did the FBA! Dang doing things right the FIRST time... 😂
Always excited to see a new video. Dyeing fabric can be a pain, I once tried to dye a skirt black and it turned 3 shades of purple. Your dress turned out adorable.
Thank you so much Liz! Yes, dyeing was NOT my favorite activity FOR SURE (stares at bathroom that is still a touch black due to dye).
“La Fortuna” is a nice touch.
Just at the part where Stephanie is dipping the fabric into the black dye, youtube gifted me with a dawn commercial where they are washing oil off of baby birds. I bout died 🤣.
I really like the bodice part of this dress! The contrast trim really makes the neckline detail pop.
OMG your hair looks gorgeous straightened!
I need to learn how to make a full belly adjustment :P it's always fun to try ot scale patterns to yourself when you're a brick with boobs. You made me laugh more today than I have all week, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sometimes shoves stuff in the Bad Clothing Corner to contemplate what it's done while I go do something else so I have something to show for a day's work, fitting is so dang difficult! It took me a lot of photos and a Zoom meeting with a friend who knows about fitting but I now have a princess seamed bodice block, I am unstoppable! (well, until I try to do one of those curved seams on a machine, then there's a whole lot of language we don't use in front of Grandma..l I'm just gonna stick to my endless hours of handsewing, thanks)
Oh I know that feeling! My measurement pre-pandemic and current are quite different. I am still learning how to deal with it. 😂
I'm in a spot where I'm trying to relearn everything I had managed to figure out over sewing for 20 years. I'm trying to psyche myself up by repeating "Now I can learn how to do it *right*."
Except that's not how things seem to be going.
I love the Bad Clothing Corner, so Bad Projects can go and think about what they've done while I do something more satisfying to recover. I'll get back to them, but first I need to regain a Good Self Image and have some tea.
I love the cynical transitions, the good enough version of the trendy techniques 😂😂 it felt so real
Thank you! That is how I roll, like I sew, but I am also the embodiment of sarcasm. I am glad you enjoyed it!
Rachel would be proud! This is amazingly done and really had me giggling.
Aww thank you so much! I think she saw it when I launched it, but I was still so floored she allowed me use of her footage.
I’m so used to seeing more recent vids, that seeing u with blown out straight hair was a definite double take! I like it….
Hey, Stephanie! I love the dress and especially like the lights. Also, the girls are on parade, enjoy it while you can.
Wow! My mom made this dress for me for Jr prom. Dusty pink with tiny pinstripe of white. White satin for top cuffy collar thing, straps, and waist strap. Very much like the photo on the pattern.
Stephanie, your videos make me laugh out loud, even on days I don’t really feel like laughing at all. Thank you. :D
The final dress was so cute (even with the fit issues) and I love the spooky themed videos 🎃. I’m a beginner at sewing and love watching other people sew, it’s so inspiring
Gasp!! So many kudos to you for taking a saucy ankle shot!! You rebel, you...
As someone who always bought the wrong size patterns for myself as a baby sewer, I know the struggles of having to upsize the bust. Your bodice fits wonderfully and looks great.
Thank you so much!
If you can always buy the bust size and change everything else.
@@dawnelder9046 it’s actually the other way round. Better for me to make it for my shoulders and hips (which are usually a 12/14) then just FBA it for my bust (which is usually a 20.) I’d rather FBA than have to draft literally everything else on the pattern. At that point I’m just making the pattern completely from scratch if I bought the size for my bust
I love the fabric after the dye is soo spooky and adams family looking!
How stunning! I love the light-up skirt! And the piping around the straps & bodice is gorgeous! I usually make Harajuku style or use Issey Miyake Vogue patterns, but I enjoy watching everyone else's style. Hope you had a good birthday! 🍩🍩🍩
My mom made me a Gunne Sax dress from this exact pattern when I was in junior high, and it kills me that I have absolutely no photos of me wearing it, because I loved that thing.
P.S. Your bold claim is completely wrong with respect to me. I have never heard of this human being, nor have I ever seen her before. Bear in mind, I only started watching _you_ maybe, what, a week or so ago? And that's after a few months of watching SewRena on top of years of watching Crow's Eye. I don't even sew, apart from a course I took one summer ca. 1983 at my sewist mother's insistence, in which I completed a pincushion she still has and a knit top I liked but have long since outgrown, in addition to starting a skirt I never finished. I clicked on this bid solely because of what I just said above regarding my immense and abiding love of this dress from personal experience.
Watching the finished result now. Congrats on eventually finding the path to sizing it up properly; my mother quit making me clothes when I reach the point red just physically departed too much from the pattern, because by her own admission she's terrible at alterations!
I hope someday you will treat yourself to a version of this dress in an attractive fabric.* (By which I do not necessarily mean a fabric in the Gunne Sax/Laura Ashley vein if that aspect is not your thing.) Grasped that the point of this particular project across the various makers was to give it a spooky twist, but such mixed feelings seeing the beautiful pattern made up in such a drab fabric. I'm genuinely curious what the dyeing of the fabric was for - I would go check out the links before writing this comment, except that I'm concerned with my ADHD I might not remember to come back for months - was it a requirement of the project so that it fit with the ones other people were doing, or did you hate the dimity and figure you might as well dye it black rather than go buy actual black fabric? In the videos I've seen so far, all the parts that involved hard work made some sense: trying to stick to what that particular vintage a pattern might have called for, or working hard at saving a rare pattern that had been nibbled on or left in mold-inducing conditions, or examining in minutest detail every difference between a vintage pattern and its modern reproduction, or the time you made up the reproduction pattern simply because so many fans kept begging you to do that. This time I just couldn't fathom why you were going to all that trouble to dye the fabric a color that you could go out and buy. It doesn't seem like it could be that the fabric itself is vintage, because if that was the point, then I would have thought dyeing it cancelled that out anyway. I know I sound like I'm griping just to gripe, but I honestly feel like I'm missing something here.
* ETA: oh, well never mind the suggestion of making it up again in a different fabric sometime, now that I see you didn't actually like the style of the 👗 . Though I hear you about the trim and how it added time, it really did save the dress in terms of the dyed fabric still having some redeeming accompaniment.
OMG! THAT ENDING! 🎃 with the lights
I made myself this dress pattern when I was a junior in high school. I would love to make it again!
I love so much how you mimic Rachel's video style with a lot of your own sence of humour! Thx for the fun I had watching this video.
Thank you so much! Rachel influenced my overall style of video from the get-go. I respect her so deeply.
❤❤❤ I love the dress and how you look in it. The bodice fit perfectly. Yes, it could use an underskirt or a little heavier fabric.
I love how the dyed fabric came out!
Excellent job. Looks really cute on you, aside from your comments. Good for a summer dress. As usual, loved your commentary on your process and your mistakes. Makes it easier for me to laugh when I make a muck of something (also frequently sewing).
Hi, and I am loving your page! But I first have to say I have this pattern (still even now) and have made it for my 8th grade dance (it weighted a ton, mine was just like the picture) Thanks for sharing this
The bodice looks great! Fits beautifully. I think it was well worth the time it took to pot the black trim on the bodice. Well done with the size up.
Loved the outcome and as much as sewing in the trim sucked, it definitely needed it. Other Gunnesax videos I know of are Juul Thijssen and Shannon makes (which was a hilarious take on the Mask as well!)
Thank you so much!
Perfect Halloween dress for the south.
I know this is rather old at this point but and I have no idea how I came across it but as soon as I saw the pattern I knew I had to reach out. This is the same dress pattern that my mom used to make my Junior Prom dress in 1980! We even made it in pink like the pattern envelope show. I bet she even still has the pattern around her house somewhere. Hilarious to find it in use now
You did a beautiful job with the dress. The front of the bodice in particular fits you so well, and the skirt style is beautiful! I hope you try making it again with a different weight of fabric as it’s so pretty. The lights were super cute too. A lovely birthday dress! Enjoy your week off!
Thank you so much! I think the pieces themselves are keepers, just not together (Rachel has the right idea).
Nice work sizing this I up and dying it! That’s a lot of work. I loved how it turned out and how it looked in the dark with your dog!
How abt dyeing in the Washing machine? That’s what i do
Awesome, it came out really pretty, I love the addition of lights to the skirt, thats so cool for Halloween.
I love your witchy coffee cup ❤
I have almost the same measurements as you! and yeah I've been looking everywhere for this pattern for like 2 years :')
Huzzah! And keep looking they do pop up!
This looks gorgeous on you! One of my favourite makes of yours.
I actually made that dress in middle school as my sewing class project. I had found it in my granny's pattern stash. Really wish I had that dress & Granny's pattern stash now.
I wish I had your patience. You’re so entertaining. Loving your videos.
THE LIGHTS ARE SO COOOOOL. Well done friend!!
I really love this--the fit of the bodice is excellent and you look wonderful in this dress.
Fabulous. I had that pattern and made the dress in the late 80’s. I had kept the dress and my daughter discovered it in my favourite items chest and claimed it mid 2000’s. I had to take it in for her. I think it is/was a classic item.
Happy Birthday Stephanie! Love this dress on you, even the colour looks great. Have a good rest put your feet up and be pampered!
Thank you so much! My birthday was GREAT! And there was much enjoyment had all around.
Beautiful! It might have given you some trouble but I love the color and the fit is lovely. (And the lights are so dang cool!)
i love it! it's gorgeous on you--hope you make more versions of it!
Haven't even finished the video, but i love the editing and music and drama!
Love the coffee cup
Thank you!
The top on this one fits really good
Lol, I just found you on UA-cam... I am new to sewing.... And knowing that piece of 411....I needed to Laugh ! Love the way you make videos !!!... I cracked up especially the Opra Music as that Beautiful fabric slowly goes into the EVIL Liqued....
Aww thank you so much! That comment really made my day!
Stephanie I love your shows
I'm now hunting eBay for this pattern. Just what I needed! Yet another pattern I need to make.
How cool, this pattern was my 1979 and 1980 prom dress (two different guys at different schools so I saved money!). Your dress came out very fun with the lights. Your size-up was impressive. Wish I'd saved the pattern of the one I did as a teenager for my sister. It went from 14 to 2x and was the type Gunne Sax with the horseshoe collar, at least that's what we called that style back then. It had the faux lace up bodice, lace sleeves and wide fitted cuffs. Miles of ribbon and tiny trim stitched on...she was gorgeous in it and then right away went on a massive diet and it never got worn again. haha
I still have this pattern. I made the shorter version in high school. I feel so vintage.
I love the dress and especially the skirt!
Tyvm Stephanie!
Great up size, looks fantastic. And lady, never stop cracking me up! You are absolutely Bonza!
Thank you so much Carmen!
I loved the black dye of the fabric. I was one of those plus size girls in the 80's and loved gunnesax. My grandmother sized it up for me. You were lovely in this gown.
Love your truthful comments. Pros and cons. Real real! That’s what sewing and creating is about!
Thank you so much Marcia! I try to keep it real here, no need for sugar coating.
You made me laugh so many times throughout this video. FWIW I think the dress is lovely on you. The trim looks great!
I hope you had a good bday! Looks like it. Oh love the dress to but hey I LOVED the 1970's the music was so awesome!!!! Gives you a Rush , n Deep Purple ohh... baby you aren't in Kansas anymore. Love those dazed of concerts!
I sure did! Thank you so much!
Omg the lights are sew cool
Thank you!
Loved the lights in the skirt!!! Now I'm searching for how to create that effect!
I think it's really cute. I sure would love to get a sized up version of this like yours. I would have NO IDEA how to size it up! and the largest one I can find ( for about $60!! Ouch) is a ten. I am a high bust 47, full bust 54, waist 49. I think I need to learn how to d the sizing up thing. I got the FBA thing down a while ago after everything I made fell right off my shoulders.
Just about spewed coffee over my tablet when the fabric hit the dye - see profile pic you know why 🤣 😎💋
You are welcome! I had WAY too much fun with that.
Great job, I like it with the lights!