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I really had no plan of making this dress until one evening I felt like sewing and started sifting through my fabric library. I came across this vintage knit floral fabric that I found at a rummage sale years ago. It’s not really my style of fabric, but I just really liked it. I decided right then and there that I was going to make something with it, and I wanted to make something simple, fast and easy. I went with the Jamie Shift Dress pattern from the BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern book. I also used the sleeve pattern from the Frank Shirt, because I wanted long sleeves for this time of year. For the dress I converted the darts into panels and used navy spandex and white mesh for the different dress panels. I continued the use of the white mesh for the sleeves, and gathered the sleeve hem into a nice little cuff.
I ended up wearing this dress to the San Fransisco book launch event at Britex Fabrics. I got these awesome limegreen sparkle shoes to “Meg” up the outfit!
The dress is really not my typical style, but I love how it turned out with the color blocking! And I have been getting a lot of wear out of it.
The three lovely pictures from Britex were taken by Sarah Deragon
Material Notes
Vintage floral knit, white mesh spandex, navy spandex
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Jan 16, 2013, 03.18 PMby b. boop
i love the mix , so funny i love this ;)
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Jan 18, 2013, 02.53 AMby MegH
hehe thanks!
Jan 15, 2013, 09.54 PMby barmaglot
So cool!
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Jan 18, 2013, 02.53 AMby MegH
I know eh
Jan 15, 2013, 09.47 PMby Mary Athey
Its gorgeous. I love the mix of fabrics they work so well to gether and the shoes are fabulous.x
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Jan 18, 2013, 02.54 AMby MegH
Yeah I am really digging the mix of fabrics!