News — EvaDress Patterns

I am reviving my 'Pattern Tours', a department of my blog series I started 5 years ago in which I highlight each pattern, delving into its delicious details and giving any heads-up or pointers when sewing it!The owner of Silk Poppy made this and a few of her other patterns available through me (in the collections they are noted as such).  When she closed her business in 2004, she wished her patterns to remain available. 16-piece digitally-drafted pattern originally by Modes Royale, 'A dramatic, strapless gown with a fabulously-draped tunic over-skirt'.The long, boned bodice joins to skirt at high hip...

@KatieEmilyl Instagram-posted her creation from pattern Sp50-3613, the 1956 Swim or Playsuit & Skirt (pattern below).   Katie gathered the skirt instead of pleating it and omitted the elastic in the hem of the shorts.Read more about her ensemble by checking her out on Instagram (link via her photo above). She was chosen in the random drawing and received the $25 gift certificate to EvaDress.com for the month of August! Be sure to post your makes from EvaDress Patterns on Instagram and/or FaceBook by tagging (#EvaDressPatterns) and you will be automatically entered for a chance at a monthly drawing for $25 off at...

@Eliza.Cosmetics Instagram-posted her creation from pattern U40-4994, the 1944 Brassiere & Panties (pattern below).   She was chosen in the drawing and received the $25 gift certificate to EvaDress.com for the month of May, then with the Instagram post she made the following month (featuring the pattern she picked up with her May winning certificate, The 1942 One-Yard Blouse), she was also randomly selected in the drawing for June!! Be sure to post your makes from EvaDress Patterns on Instagram and/or FaceBook by tagging (#EvaDressPatterns) and you will be automatically entered for a chance at a monthly drawing for $25 off at...

Brittany Lee in Florida Instagram-posted her #DapperDayatHome creation from pattern Sp50-3613, the 1956 Swim or Play Suit & Skirt (pattern below).   She was chosen in the drawing and received the $25 gift certificate to EvaDress.com for the month of April. Be sure to post your makes from EvaDress Patterns on Instagram and/or FaceBook by tagging (#EvaDressPatterns) and you will be automatically entered for a chance at a monthly drawing for $25 off at EvaDress Patterns! There is no limit to the number of posts you make each month (gives more chances to win the drawing!). Photo credits: Paige Mercer, Film developed by Photovision...

Those who are subscribers to my e-mail updates were notified that on April 12, I began what will be a 12-week give-away based on the book, Dress You Up, New Lit Salon Press, an anthology of fictional accounts regarding fashion and how it truly influences us and those in our lives, to put it mildly. Dress You Up was edited by Brian Centrone, Salon Style: Fiction, Poetry & Art and Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South (and who kindly juried the last two EvaDress Pattern Challenges)!Details about and to order the book (I got mine on Amazon) are here:https://newlitsalonpress.com/product/dress-you-up/I first read Hemlines,...