Wednesday 25 February 2015

Hide and Seek Placket tute

Failing miserably at coming up with a clever blog post title, I present what I think is quite a clever modification of the Oliver + S Hide and Seek dress

Click on the image above to see the tutorial for adding a front placket to the Hide and Seek dress.

I made the navy/white stripe one first and surprised myself that it worked well. I hadn't taken any photos along the way as that would seem to jinx me, but I was so happy with the outcome I immediately made another to be photographed as the tutorial.

Of course that time, I muffed the placket and ended up sewing it left over right instead of right over the left, but thanks to the magic of Lightroom I flipped the images for the Oliver + S post and that can just be our little secret!

Here's A in her back to front placket dress:


I was particular about the fabrics for the first one as I was working to a specific brief. I'm hoping to get some good modelled pictures of that dress and share more of its origins tomorrow.

For this second dress it was a case of whatever fabrics were in the stash that I thought would work together. I had bought this cotton interlock from Spotlight a little while ago with nothing really in mind, the chambray is more of the table cloth (?) that I used here, and the orange is a quilting cotton that happened to match my fish nicely.


Apart from my reversed placket can you spot the other "mistake"? this one I knew about but thought I could get away with...

With only one metre of the fishy interlock I had no choice but to cut the sleeves upside down. I stared long and hard at the fish and finally decided they looked the same either way. What I only noticed as the scissors cut the fabric was that their bubbles should, of course, go up not down. Oops, not so interchangeable after all. It gives the curious effect of looking like the bubbles are coming from the other end of the fish....

 
So there's my Hide and Seek Fish dress with farty sleeves!
(perhaps that should have been the blog post title)

13 comments:

  1. hehe gotta love farting fish sleeves! in any event, it's a super cute dress and fantastic tutorial! high five.

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    1. New hashtag hey? #fartingfishsleeves
      I haven't pointed it out to the kids yet, but I know they'll be delighted!
      Thanks! high five back at you!

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  2. Oh, I hate it when scissors show you that the fabric you thought had no direction, has direction! This modification is a stroke of genius. I think I even like it better than the original design (which is pretty cute). Call Mini Boden, they are going to want this! :)

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    1. thanks Kristi. The genius was not all mine, as you'll see soon it's a knock off (so no, Boden wouldn't be interested and J Crew wouldn't be happy! :) )

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  3. Brilliant mod, Shelley! I love it! Super awesome!

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  4. Very cute. The front placket is a great idea and the dress works surprisingly well in jersey. I bought this pattern recently and am looking forward to trying it out (as soon as my husband remembers to print it out for me...).

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    1. Thanks Marisa. It is perfect in a knit. For the record it's quite a generous fit. This is a size 3 with size 4 length and is more than big enough on my 4 year old.
      Do you have a husband with a 36" printer? ooooh I'm jealous!

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    2. No - just a normal printer at work, as opposed to a broken printer at home :)

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  5. A very cute dress and love the orange placket. The fish are now blowing bubble kisses up the sleeves at your daughter :)

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  6. Great dress, just make your daughter wave a lot with both arms above her head :) But seriously you can totally get away with this.

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  7. guaranteed no other girl with have a farting fish sleeve dress:) And even without that distinguishing factor, no other girl would have a dress as cute as this! Love, love your modifications to the O & S pattern, and think both versions are just fantastic!!

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  8. This is such a great idea! When E hits a size 5 I'm going to whip my pattern and give your modification a try!

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