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shirt dress - burda magazine 01/2019 #108

this particular dress was on my mind since january

when i first saw it in magazine..

burda's version isn't really an inspiring one

but i loved the technical drawing

and was pretty sure that this pattern need to be made in contrasting fabrics

that will show those beautiful lines

..

around that time i stumbled upon these two fabrics

and i knew i found the perfect match..

so i got home, prewashed fabrics, traced the pattern

and then did nothing about it for next 10 months..

happens to me a lot these days..

 it's a very simple project
but when i finally started working on it

 somehow it took me an entire week to finish it..

i should rename my blog to 'a week of naps'

as nowadays every single project takes a week of naps

to get finished,

even the simplest one

.. 

usually i sew very fast

a dress like this would be finished in under two hours..

and when you're fast and take no breaks

you don't tend to overthink things, you just do..

but when there's so many breaks

you keep wondering 'should i change this'

and 'should i change that'

and that adds couple more hours to production..

and said hours are spent in front of mirror

thinking and rethinking 

..

at some point i got the idea that i should chop 40cm from the bottom,

skip the collar

and turn the whole thing into a bomber jacket..

but somehow i managed to talk myself out of that

and i'm glad i did, as i really love how the dress turned out in the end

..

and i love how it looks styled differently

it's always nice to have options, right?

..

now all the different versions are poppin in my brain:

should i make a version with transparent sleeves?

what would it look like as maxi?

should i make that bomber version happen?

a bodysuit version?

am i overthinking it again?

..

mokosha