remember this pattern?
Well, I really wanted to try it out, and I really wanted to make a new dress to wander around the Renegade Craft fair in, and I had a bunch (as in, a lot more than six yards) of this odd yellow-and-gray plaid fabric I wanted to use, and … well, I did this:
Here’s a bigger view:
And here you can see the almost-matched plaid at the center front:
I want to make this again as it was fast (I cut it out in about an hour, and it took about three hours to sew; if I weren’t doing plaid it would probably take less time) and fairly easy, and fun to wear. I cut the front bodice on the bias, so that the plaid would purposefully not match at the waist seam. I think it would look better with a belt (I’m planning to try to find the gray patent belt Summerset gotten at Target for her shirtdress).
Other than cutting the bodice on the bias, the only other change I made was substituting a center back undetectable zipper (running from about the bra-strap line to 6″ below the waist) instead of the side snap placket the pattern calls for. It wasn’t fun to set in, but by moving the zipper to the center back, I could put in pockets on both sides of the skirt, instead of the one-sided pocket the pattern allowed.
Next time I make this I’m going to lengthen the bodice by about an inch, and widen the sleeve a bit to accommodate my, um, muscular upper arms. I’m also going to try to figure out why the carry seam was a bit forward of the top of the carry when I was wearing it. Something was pulling, but I can’t figure out what!
My cam ran out of juice before I could shoot the buttons in the back, but they were just plain plastic yellow buttons, anyway. I could have sworn I had some charming gray buttons in my stash, but they managed to disappear.
The best part of this dress was the fun of applying the bias edging to the neck and sleeves. I love doing that. and although the neck is pretty high, I found it quite comfortable.
(If you saw the BurdaNews post yesterday, I’m wearing this dress in that picture, with a gray cardigan.)
All in all, it was probably not the best idea ever to make a brand-new pattern (and one where I made so lots of little changes ideal off the bat) in PLAID, but, hey, why not? If something’s too easy there’s no fun in it, right?
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