My First Washi Dress

 

It's finished and I love it!

It must be the most comfortable dress I have ever made with the stretchy panel of shirring at the back..
 

 

And the empire line style..
 

 

It took less than a day to make from start to finish and that was with shopping, cleaning and taxiing included.

 

The pattern was designed by Rae from made-by-rae , and was a PDF pattern that arrived almost immediately.

I printed out the 36 pages and pieced at all together.

This wasn't as complicated as I thought it might be, and was way outweighed by the fact that it was so instant.

I made it from a linen-cotton mix found at Truro Fabrics.

I am a size 12 and made a 'large' from the pattern, cutting the pocket linings from some batik cotton that was in my stash.

 The pattern said to get 3 yards and I bought 2.5m but there was plenty to spare.

 

All in all I think it is a great pattern

 (no surprises there as there is a huge flickr pool of dresses made from the pattern to see for yourself)

and certainly one that I will be using again....soon.

 

 

Good with tights too as the weather here is starting to get autumnal.

Lots of sewing and no time to blog!

Sorry for the lack of news this week but I have been busy sewing.

Two pencil rolls..

 

 

..more pictures when the sun comes out.

These are for a charity sale that my Mum's sewing group is putting on.

And some dressmaking that I will share soon.

 A little black dress for child number one and a Washi Dress for me.

 

I bought the pattern online and it was emailed to me the same day!

Printed out and put together, and after a trip to Truro last weekend I have some fabric, a linen-cotton mix, to try it out.

I have been doing my first ever bit of shirring today..

 

 

Must go, sleeves and hem to do!

 

Rosy Red Apples

 

 

The apples are good this year and I particularly like this tree because of the rosy red apples.

I have taken one load already to be pressed by someone in a nearby village

and can't wait to taste the juice.
 

I have also made a phone case this time for me.
 

The fabric came from my Mum and was in a sale in Plymouth (thanks Mum)
so I am not sure of the name,
 but having just looked it up I think it is
 Acorn Chain in Berry by Joel Dewberry for the binding.
And the other one is Amy Butler's deco dots in citrine from the Gypsy Caravan Collection by Rowan.

Long and complicated names for what I thought looked like green and red apples!