Fresh from making the Sew Over It Nancy I decided to make another of their patterns that I've had for a while and not made up yet, the Vintage Shirt Dress.
I've been wanting to make a shirt dress for a while and I have several patterns in my stash, but I started with this one because it is relatively simple compared to some of the other I have. I decided to make the sleeveless version of this for several reasons. Firstly because it will be nice for the summer but also easy to slip a cardigan over if it is chilly, secondly because it would be quicker to make, thirdly due to the sleeves too tight issues I've had recently and lastly because I just prefer the look of this dress without sleeves.
I bought the PDF of this pattern, so my first job was to print it and stick it together. Because I was making version 2 I went ahead and printed the file entitled PDF 2, a not too taxing 32 sheets to assemble. However once I'd finished I realised that I was without several key pieces and upopn further investigation I reallised that I'd just printed the 2nd PDF of 2, both of which were needed. Cue me begrudgingly sticking together another 32 sheets. After all that I made sure to trace all of my pieces so that I would never have to go through that again if I needed a different size!
With regards to size I ended up choosing the size 10 which is the size I'd used for Nancy and Heather. They'd both fit fine everywhere instead of the sleeves but I wasn't sure if that was due to a larger amount of ease included in those looser fitting patterns. This looked as if it might fit closer so I considered sizing up but ultimately stuck with the 10. I'm glad I did because I would even say that this is a shade too big. It certainly doesn't nip in at the waist as much as I would like so I need to have a look at the fit as a whole before I make another to see if I need to size down or whether to just bring the waist in a little.
This was a very quick and simple dress to make and I'm really pleased with how it looks, except for one tiny little error that I made very early on in the process. Can you see it?
Can you see it now?
Yep, I chose this lovely cotton fabric with cute little cottages, farm animals and adorable dog walking men and the first thing I do it cut it out upside down!!!!!
I could say this was an entirely selfish move because it's the right way up for me to see when I'm wearing it and because the print is quite small no one has actually noticed until I've pointed it out, but I still feel like a massive doofus. Mostly I'm hoping that people will be too mesmerised by my super sparkly buttons to notice! Ah well, it's a talking point, to be sure and no one else will ever have one like it which is entirely the point of sewing one's own clothes I suppose.
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