Oh my word, do I love this dress. It’s definitely one of my favourites and now that I’ve tweaked this pattern to death since Christmas, I intend to make thousands more. This fabric is Michael Miller’s Disco Dots in the pink colourway. Normally I am not a designer fabric sort of person but it was being sold quite cheaply on a Facebook destash group and I bought all two metres, with no clear idea what I was going to make with it. The best part about this fabric is the fact that the circles are not printed in the usual polka-dotted way, but laid out in a perfectly square grid. The PERFECT sort of arrangement for the pattern I drafted. Frustratingly enough, the first thing my mother noticed was not the perfect pattern-matching down the front of the bodice, but that the circles along the neckline of the bodice aren’t…
One day I’ll run out of alliterative titles. Not today though! I tell you what, this whole live-streaming your sewing shtick is actually stupidly effective. I’ve finished TWO dresses…
Greetings from the inside of a laundry basket! That’s kind of how I feel reviewing these pictures. Hence the play on words in the title, do you get…
Part two of my “build your dream dress” adventure, where we give up on using a pattern (and flat patternmaking) and drape the damn thing instead. I had…
Wintery prints are always great for Winter. I bought this Alaskan-themed/forestry/mountainous dress a few years ago from eBay for $20, thinking I’d have myself a fun, cheap dress…