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  • Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: Cutting Out Pieces & Thoughts on Cutting Them Out of Bed Sheets

    November 14, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! Over a year ago, I planned on publishing more posts about my sewing progress creating Vogue Patterns’ V2004. I got sidetracked while writing the posts, so I ended up leaving them as drafts. Over a year later, I decided to finish writing the posts. In that time, I decided to scrap my old version of the dress and make a new one. I really didn’t like the way it fit in the chest, so I decided to remake it. I cut out all the pieces… and that’s as far as I’ve gotten in making it. Even though the posts I worked are for the first version of the…

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  • Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: Playing With Trim Variations and My Final Decision

    September 5, 2024 /

    Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I wrote a post about sewing my Vogue V2004 dress. Sadly, the final dress I made didn’t fit me right, so I decided to make another one. Even though I had a fitting setback with my first dress, I still have some posts to publish about making it. When I decided to make a new dress, I decided to make it using the same fabric and trim, but I enlarged the bust to make it fit me better. In this post, I want to talk about the trim options I had and what I ultimately picked for the first dress. Since the second…

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  • Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: Other Trims and Other Essentials

    June 7, 2024 /

    Hi everyone! In today’s Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004 post, I wanted to talk about the other trims I purchased to add to the main lace trim I wanted to sew onto the dress. I also wanted to talk about other essentials (Actually, just one essential) I purchased for the dress.

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  • Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: The Main Lace Trim

    May 31, 2024 /

    Hi everyone! In today’s post in my sewing Vogue Pattern V2004 series, I wanted to talk about the main trim I used on the dress. Since the dress is already finished, I wanted to talk about the lace trim I used and if I thought it was a good choice or not.

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  • Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: The Fashion Fabric & Lining Fabric

    May 23, 2024 /

    Hi everyone! It’s time for a new post in my series about how I made Vogue Pattern V2004! This time, I will be talking about the fabric I choose for the outer/fashion fabric and the lining fabric. By the time this post is published, the dress is already completed! The reasons why I decided to delay posts about making it in a more realistic time is due to the fact I had some fit problems with the bodice. I know what went wrong and how to fix it, but I needed time to focus on it instead of writing posts about the dress in real time. I will go into…

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  • New Sewing Project! Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004

    May 16, 2024 /

    Hi everyone! It’s been a few years since I wrote a series of posts about sewing clothing. I used to do this a lot for the costumes I made. Today, I prefer to make my own clothes instead of costumes! Since I shifted my attention to sewing clothing for myself, I decided to document my process of making clothing in blog posts. The piece of clothing I decided to make is a summer dress using Vogue Pattern’s V2004. I planned on making this pattern for an Easter dress, but the physical pattern didn’t arrive until after Easter. I decided to use cotton sateen fabric to make view A (AKA the…

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