Pattern: Dahlia from Colette Patterns
New Skills Acquired:
When I look at some of my projects from last year…
I do! It may be a mini-obsession. I do have some non-plaid projects in the works, but for now….
This dress has been sitting as a draft in blog forever. I wanted to share this on The Monthly Stitch and even bumped it up in my project queue because the July theme was all about plaid. I rushed through all the hot sticky weather to try to finish this dress in time to post on the site and then…the blind hem stitch on my machine wasn’t working. On July 28th.
Yeah I know I could have just hemmed it by hand, but I really wanted to try out a new technique. And that was more important than trying to force a project into a theme. It’s all about my learnings as a sewist, right? (Back me up on this one) So in the corner this dress went while I worked on other stuff, involving other non-blind hems. I decided to pick this back up when my machine was properly repaired. Welp, at least I can also get that button-hole stitch fixed too.
Clash of the Tartans
I bought this fairly light-weight tartan fabric when I was on vacation in Scotland last summer. I had a picture in my head of the type of dress I wanted to make from it – something simple but also stylish that would really show off the plaid design. The Dahlia dress seemed perfect – Continue reading “Happy and plaid: the Dahlia dress” →
Threading Lightly 