I made a Cottagecore + Spooky Gunne Sax dress || Cute Witch

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2 жыл бұрын

How I made a Halloween Dress inspired by Vintage Gunne Sax Style dresses from the 1970s with sewing steps and reveal at the end! You could use this method to make non-seasonal Gunne Sax dresses, which I plan to do! I used modified parts from different commercial patterns you can easily acquire at Joann's or another fabric store to make my own bodice pattern in this cute style. This is now a key part of my witchy wardrobe! Cottagecore meets Spooky Season!
Have you made a Gunne Sax Dress? What are you working on for Halloween?
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‪@GwensShenanigans‬ compiled a playlist of costumers making Halloween versions of different Gunne Sax style dresses! • #gunnesaxoween
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Boots: Balmorals from American Duchess
Stockings: part of a Sally (Nightmare Before Christmas) costume from 2010

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@nancyring8104 2 жыл бұрын

Well! That came out super cute!! Two quick notes (from someone who graduated from high school in 1969)- you *are* pronouncing it correctly, the company is named for gunnysacks-(burlap bags). The first Gunne Sax dresses came out in 1967-68, they were part of the “peasant dress” trend. (I had a couple of knock-offs, because they were expensive even then!)❤️🎃 Happy Halloween!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@Thats.So.Landrum Жыл бұрын

This is one of the most accurate out of all the Gunnesaxoween/Gunnesaxmas that I have seen on KZfaq! So many of the others are beautiful, but missing that little.... something... that makes them look like a true Gunne sax (instead of just a prairie dress). Thank you for this video, I will definitely be referring back as I embark on my own Gunne sax making adventure.

@AnnaCMeyer 2 жыл бұрын

Just too heckin' cute!

@SpanishEclectic 2 жыл бұрын

Cute idea...came out great. It took me so long to get over my fabric shopping addiction. There used to be a Gunne Sax outlet here in San Diego. I eventually got rid of the several dresses and nightgown I had, though I might still have a pattern somewhere. You never know what will come back in style. I found a 3-yard bolt end of iridescent black lace with black cats on it, but it was too cool to cut up; I drape it over the buffet in my dining room as a backdrop for my garland of embroidered Dia De Los Muertos cat heads. Great minds...

@TheGardenKitten 2 жыл бұрын

I love you Gunne sax spooky dress! Your last years one is great too. Thank you

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Jmlugo Жыл бұрын

Love love love❤❤

@dottiewi661 2 жыл бұрын

Such a cute dress! And I love your humour/undertone. Also tossed cat heads…

@jackiejames4551 2 жыл бұрын

It's cute, and looks great on you.

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@zuriagaski8912 2 жыл бұрын

You are truly hilarious. Loved this adventure!

@cziegle3794 2 жыл бұрын

Yay first like and comment. Love your videos.

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

@robyn3349 2 жыл бұрын

Super spooky cute!

@TealCheetah 2 жыл бұрын

Emma looks excellent on that fabric!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

And she knows it! LOL

@lisa8a8e 2 жыл бұрын

your dress looks amazing

@catherinemccallen7982 2 жыл бұрын

That is so cool 😎 I actually wore a Gunne Sax dress for my confirmation in the early 80s and had completely forgotten about that company until I saw your video 😊

@jennglow4647 9 ай бұрын

Very cool 😀

@itsoktorisuyet 2 жыл бұрын

this is absolutely adorable!!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@angelafleming5269 2 жыл бұрын

Such a cute dress! Loved watching the making process. Great video! Now I want to make a Gunne Sax dress too!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@maryroyal5138 2 жыл бұрын

Such a cute Fanken Gunne Sax dress!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@TonyaC Жыл бұрын

I have that orange dot fabric in a spooky quilt

@afteralice98 Жыл бұрын

I was a bridesmaid for my best friend in 1976 and we chose a Gunne Sax blue and white gown with yellow accents for my dress. As I had no similar events where I could wear it, the dress hung in my closet. Eventually, my mom had the great idea of taking off the sleeves and shortening it to make a light housecoat for herself. I wonder what that dress would go for now. It was an original Jessica McClintock.

@mimioverman 2 жыл бұрын

Love it! I Frankenpatterned a Gunnesaxoween dress too! Not for the faint of heart but now I’m so excited to make one for Christmas. Possibly also Thanksgiving…

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Yay!!!!! Gunne Sax for all the seasons!!

@gnostic268 2 жыл бұрын

I love your dress! I was talking to my sister about GunneSax-o-ween because I remember that she wore a Jessica McClintock GS dress for Homecoming one year. She wished she had kept hers. By the time I got to high school it was the mid-80s and fashion was a little bit regrettable. I love Halloween and all these beautiful GS versions 🎃

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

It’s crazy how much these vintage dresses are going for. I was too young to own one then (my mom made most of my cute dresses), would not have been caught dead in such a thing in my goth teens and twenties, and now in my 40s, I love them, lol

@joannaerhardt7294 2 жыл бұрын

I love the dress!!! So cute!!! Happy Halloween!!!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!!

@liadelmater6643 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love the way you used the lace trim for lacing up the bodice! Such a pretty look!

@lajoyous1568 2 жыл бұрын

I think this is my favorite of all the gunnesax dresses made this year 😍

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Awww, thank you!!! 🥰

@MiraScarletCosplay 2 жыл бұрын

it turned out so good!!!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@susankellam8844 2 жыл бұрын

It's adorable!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@marybeth406 2 жыл бұрын

Very cute! Joann had some obviously rushed Halloween fabric names this year. I saw another tossed print called “black cats” but it was actually white line art of cat heads on black fabric.

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

😆😆😆 oh, I didn’t see that one, lol!!

@deborahwager5883 2 жыл бұрын

Very cute!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@MonaSkovJensen 2 жыл бұрын

I love that you Gunny matches your cat :D

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! It actually matches two of my cats but Susan was not in the mood for getting picked up, lol.

@Chibihugs 2 жыл бұрын

Cute witch dress and testing centrifical force. Yay for spooky adorable nerds. Love how your gunnesax dress turned out

@hollyingraham3980 Жыл бұрын

Think "gunne" (2 syllables), the Anglo-SAXon gown. Which is a pun on gunnysacks. I happen to own two and a Young Edwardian, an earlier line by Jessica.😎

@annastebelskyj580 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it! Very impressive for a cobbled together reproduction!

@fidelmao3355 2 жыл бұрын

I love it!! This is my first video of yours, I have subscribed :-) I also love Gunne Sax dresses but they are so hard to find, even to make your own from a pattern - so this is super helpful. I think I will now make my own “franken-dress”! 🎃

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! And thank you!!

@LauraIngallsGunn 2 жыл бұрын

What an absolutely darling dress! How clever to use the lace as a medium for the lace-up bodice. To answer your question, Yes! I did sew a Gunnesaxoween dress and my daughter loves it! :)

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

The dress you made is soooo cute, Laura!!

@RhymingMime 2 жыл бұрын

Watching as I too gather something with the halving method... I actually love how gathering this way turns out vs the basting gather stitch method!

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

The halving method rocks!!

@catherinejustcatherine1778 2 жыл бұрын

Great job! I working on an autumn dress. I didn't make a gunne sax dress However, I did expand an old dress to fit my current shape (Halloween themed)

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent! I love autumn dresses, I need to make more!

@catherinejustcatherine1778 2 жыл бұрын

@@AJaneiteSews I just saw your butterfly dress, it was lovely!

@emilyhill7622 Жыл бұрын

How do you know all the pieces will fit together correctly when you use different patterns? New to sewing so this kind or blows my mind 😄

@AJaneiteSews Жыл бұрын

I “trued” the seams during the mock up phase (sew them together to make sure they fit, trim or extend where necessary!)

@elainebye9090 2 жыл бұрын

Oooooooo, your Spooky Gunne Sax dress turned out marvelous! I just got finished converting my dart block pattern to princess seams in preparation to design my own Gunne Sax version. This video is such great inspiration! Thank you. 🖤🖤🖤 My fabrics are a little much, but I have it in good authority from another video: "If you've lived through the style the first time around, you are too old to wear it again." (Not the exact words in the video, but the exact sentiment!) So I decided that if my flowers aren't dainty and tiny, and my colors are brighter, GOOD. I won't look like "mutton dressed like lamb" (those ARE the exact words). I will look like a kooky old lady with a really cute dress, right?

@AJaneiteSews 2 жыл бұрын

We are never too old to wear whatever we want!! You go for it! And I personally love when fabrics are “a bit much” 😄