...is over!
Thanks to tabathatweedie, I discovered that I'd inadvertently joined in with a sewcialist sewalong!
Thanks to tabathatweedie, I discovered that I'd inadvertently joined in with a sewcialist sewalong!
I don't use twitter - it's as much as I can do to keep up with blogging, Ravelry, Facebook, Instagram and, well, real life let alone another social media platform! So I've been blissfully unaware of twitterings about red being a neutral colour.... And all the while, I've been making my own little neutral dress...
I did have a few teeny tiny problems along the way. But only because I'm stupid and got the right and wrong sides of the fabric mixed up...
By this point, I'd already bound the seams so I spent ages ripping everything out and redoing. Annoy-ing.
After that though, it was pretty much plain sailing. I've never used so much bias binding in my life - 10m!! I wanted the inside to be as nice as the outside seeing as I couldn't be bothered didn't want to line it.
How cute is the back cut out detail? It really makes this dress special. But it's not indecently big or low so you can still wear a normal bra - win! What a shame it's turning colder now though, I'll be covering it up with a cardi over the winter. I can't wait to wear it by itself next summer to show the diamond off now!
There's only one thing that I'm not one hundred percent happy with - the stormtrooper shoulders make a return again...
I know I'm late on the Belladone bandwagon but this is an awesome dress! Eleonore has done it again with a fabulously easy-to-follow pattern that makes it a pleasure to sew. And the finished dress is brilliant!