Vera Olkhovskaya
The summer heat will not allow us to feel comfortable in tight-fitting clothes made of stretch fabrics. Let's leave turtlenecks, sweaters and jeans for cold weather.
Let's take a closer look at dresses and blouses of a free silhouette in boho style.
Why is it better to sew a summer dress with your own hands than to buy one? Poor-quality and unfashionable tailoring, inconsistency with our desires and the availability of patterns of summer dresses for full and slender at a low price - this is the answer.
Let's go through affordable and decent quality summer fabrics that will allow us to realize our ideas for sewing boho-style dresses according to a finished pattern.
What can be sewn from boho style staple for summer
Everyone's favorite staple today consists of cotton and viscose. Viscose is a man-made fiber obtained from the processing of wood pulp. The fabric can be half or 70% cotton. There is also a staple with 50% cotton, 40% viscose and 10% polyester. There is also 100% viscose.
The disadvantages of the staple include only its slight wrinkling, but it still remains indispensable when sewing summer dresses in the style of boho, country and hippie.
It is worth noting separately staple-twill - viscose and cotton - this is a fabric similar to satin and has a twill weave.
What can be sewn from a staple? First of all, these are dresses of a simple cut and Tatyanka skirts, that is, with a skirt made of a strip of fabric, with an assembly at the waist, which is easy to cut without a pattern.
For example, the simple pattern of a peasant lady dress
Both patterns are developed on the basis of the Sapozhkov cut and skirts for them can be cut without a pattern.
To sew a boho style dress, and not just a summer dress, choose a fabric with an appropriate print. The expense for a Tatyanka skirt, in this case, is two lengths.
Here is one suitable pattern for sewing dresses
Also a Tatyanka skirt, the sleeve can be either on the cuff or without it.
Poplin for summer dress shirts in boho style
Poplin - it happens, both cotton and silk or woolen.
You can recognize poplin by its characteristic weaving - thin vertical and thick horizontal threads.
Cotton poplin is used to sew a bed and boho dresses.
Poplin is very comfortable to wear, which consists of half viscose and a “droplet” of polyester.
poplin we sew a shirt dress according to a ready-made simple pattern
Shirt fabrics in the summer heat
Shirt fabrics are also good for summer boho, but fabrics that are 70% polyester and 30% viscose should be avoided, although they look very good.
Please note that the so-called "cotton" may consist of cotton and viscose or cotton and elastane.
Under the "cotton" can "hide" both denim and chintz. At the same time, there may not be cotton fibers in it.
Cotton sew shirt dresses at home not difficult.
What linen is appropriate in summer dresses
"Linen" - a fabric consisting of linen and cotton in equal parts should be considered a good option. There are also such compositions: 78% cotton, 20% linen and 2% elastane.
Linen with viscose - 50 to 50 - is also suitable for sewing boho-style dresses.
Stretch linen is also available, consisting of linen, cotton, nylon and elastane.
And you can find linen, which does not contain linen - made of polyester and elastane. It is better not to sew clothes from it.
As for the additional processing of the fabric, linen is plain or with a printed pattern. You can find linen with embroidery or perforation. Please note that striped linen can be either printed or woven from threads of two colors.
Sometimes there is a striped fabric of threads of two colors with the addition of a printed pattern or embroidery on top.
One of the most convenient styles for sewing a boho-style dress for full and slender women is an A-line dress.
A-line dress pattern with a frill
A-line dress pattern with frill and drop
Separately, it should be said about coated linen. Often it has a gold or silver coating on one side.
It is also interesting for sewing dresses and other products in the boho style. wrinkled effect linen и "boiled" flax.
According to the density, linen fabrics can be divided into three categories:
- linen-veil
- linen for dress or blouse
- suit linen
Linen veil – light and transparent, it is good for layered clothes (about 60-70 gr/m2). When buying, consider greater shrinkage, based on the fact that the lower the density of the fabric, the greater the percentage of shrinkage.
To sew a linen veil dress at home, it is the best fit
A-line dress pattern with drop
And also t-shirt dress pattern, which is suitable for full and slender
Suit and blouse linen differ in density and weight. For a suit, the density is about 180-200 g / m2, and for a dress or blouse 120 - 150 g / m2.
From heavy costume linen, you can even
sew a light coat according to the pattern for beginners
Using silk for boho sewing
Silk fabrics made from natural fibers are ideal for sewing clothes of any style.
For boho style dresses, as you know, silk fabrics without excessive sheen are suitable.
Interesting to consider is natural silk organza and silk crash. They are perfect for transparent boho-style tunics, as well as natural silk velvet on chiffon, which is rare today. Of course, you can find synthetic analogues of these fabrics.
For tight dresses, vests, jackets and trousers, the so-called "wild" silk is ideal. The same products look good from it, as from flax.
When working with purely natural fabrics, you should remember about the need to decatenate them before sewing. Natural silk fabrics shrink a lot and do not tolerate machine washing, and some products do not tolerate washing at all.
Easier care will require fabrics of mixed composition. For example, silk with viscose or silk with acetate and elastane.
They have proven themselves very well, but silk-wool, silk-cotton, silk-linen fabrics are quite rare. They are available as a dress assortment - 120 - 150 g / m2, and suit - 180-200 gr/m2.
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