July Sewing Challenge - Dress #1

Hello All,

Well, here it is, the first dress from my July Sewing Challenge (which is actually my second attempt at a dress. My first one went all weird - perhaps due to my complete and utter lack at being able to follow instructions. I just tend get a little bored with instructions sometimes and think I know more than I actually do. It's fixable but I need to wait for some white vintage cotton to arrive on my door step).

I used the pattern on the right - the blue dress in the middle and then added the little cap sleeves from the pink dress. I think this is the perfect edition to my summer work wardrobe and I'm very excited about wearing it.

I used a vintage polished cotton to make this one and unfortunately didn't have quite enough to make the little dart folds in the front skirt of the dress. But I got a little creative and I think it looks relatively true to form - what do you think?

I was going to include the first part of my Sewing With Vintage Patterns series in this post, but it would have been way to long, so look out for the first installment at the end of the week :)

XX

Jen