The spotted dress

My long weekend project is this dress:

This is my first attempt at hard core dress sewing since I use to make my own clothes in high school. Needless to say that it’s quite different to the sewing I’ve been doing since then- mostly just straight simple lines on bags and quilts.

I will say though, all those quilts and bags have served their purpose, as far as sewing skills go- This weekend I’ve been sewing the straightest lines ever!

So, because this being my first piece of clothing sewn in a while, it meant that I wasn’t exactly prepared. It took me two trips to Spotlight yesterday to get together everything I needed (including a new pattern).

I started out wantng to make this coffee date dress, which I could download free from burdastyle, because there a few great tutorials to walk you through it. I even got so far as to sticky tape the whole bloody thing together before I realised there was seriously no way this was going to fit me and that I had NO WHERE NEAR enough fabric. *sigh*

Anyway, I found a new pattern to try, and a similar fabric to buy and started cutting/sewing.

During the day I got a fair bit of Stargate watched with Luke, because I spent a lot of time pinned things together and cutting them out and what not. I got NONE of the other jobs I was meant to do done. Alas. We will do them on Monday as we celebrate the birthday of our beautiful Queen.
BTW when people say we should become a republic they forget about the awesome public holidays and athletic competitions we get to win because we’re in the Commonwealth. I love the monarchy. I even followed them on twitter for a while.

Anyway, back to the task at hand. My dress.

I wanted it to have in-seam pockets in the dress (did I mention I haven’t sewed clothes in FOREVER?! Talk about jumping into the deep end…), but for the life on me can’t find a free pattern online! So I decided to make my own. I’ll post it up here once I’ve perfected it so that other people can use it too.

As I was searching for a pattern, and reading some blogs, I stumbled onto this post by Rossie on pedging to talk more about PROCESSES, and not just finished products when we blog… It’s pretty interesting idea, and one that is inspiring me to write more posts like this!

Tags: dress, handmade, polkadots, process, Sewing, spotted dress