I’ve really enjoyed getting back into sewing. I got inspired by those batiks and dug into my stash as well – turns out I have enough fabric and ideas to last a while!
For this dress, I had to alter the pattern quite a bit. I had sewed a few dresses with it years ago, like in the early “aughts” (or is that “naughts” ?). The fact is those ones don’t fit me anymore so I traced the pieces onto new tissue paper and added a quarter inch there and half an inch there, to add up to an inch or so bigger all told. Before cutting into the unique (and more pricey) batiks I decided to do a “test dress” out of this blue viney fabric I had in my stash. It was the perfect yardage.
Adapted from Butterick 6333 (1999)
I’m very happy with how this came out. It will be nice to have a cool cotton dress to wear when it’s hot this summer. Next project: batik version.
WOW, you look cute with the dress! Can’t wait to see the batik version. KT, do you DIY everything?
That’s pretty Katie! It looks nice!
Yay, it came out good. I like the fabric too! The sleeve alteration worked then? Looking forward to the batik version.
[...] so happy with how this dress came out. I learned a lot from the blue vines dress, but I made additional modifications on this version: I used the skirt pieces from a [...]