Over the weekend I made another dress! I have a little story behind this fabric: I went last month to get my hair done by a very special friend. She had a cape of this beautiful shades of purple watercolor like fabric. She told me a customer had made it for them. So while sitting waiting for my coloring to finish, I worked my way around the outer seam of the cape and found a selvage spot! Jo-Ann's fabric! On my next visit to Jo-Ann's I found it in the quilting cotton section. The fabric has a nice thickness to it and I thought it would still be ok to use for a dress. The only thing was when I laid out the the pattern for the skirt I was about 6" too short along the selvage width! I finally folded the fabric crosswise for the skirt so that the pattern went the same way for both the bodice and the skirt. Perfect! I had about 6" of fabric left!
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| Butterick 4443 Princess Seam Dress |
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Butterick 4443 Princess Seam Dress-Purple
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I'm thinking of wearing it with a purple cardigan I already have or maybe a white one. I also have some purple grosgrain ribbon to use as a waist tie. I will try to get a photo of me wearing it too.
My next project is going to be a skirt. I found McCall 8487. It's a vintage skirt pattern in my drawer of patterns. I'm going to have to enlarge the pattern (what else is new!). I had to add 2.15" to the waist and 2.5" to the hips. :(.
Until next time......................
Bonnie
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