It was a Dress

Okay, I love this dress, BWOF 4/2008 #118 but it didn't love me! First, I think it was my fabric combination, second, some of my alterations from the muslin and third, my zipper for the front and fourth my many mistakes and I would think of them each time I would have worn it (and that would have driven me crazy).





Here it is:


I added too much length to the bodice as you can tell. I love the fabric but it is too busy for this dress design, at least in my opinion.

If you are going to make this dress things to look for:

1. The bodice pattern piece does not have as much length as it appears in the finished garment's photograph
2. Check the zipper length for the bodice.
3. If you add length to the bodice, add length to the front band (I forgot and didn't have extra fabric, I just pieced the black band but you could see the seam)
4. The welt pockets have a pleat on the bottom, I didn't see this and my skirt would not line up, then I took a good look at the pattern pieces in the instructions and realized my mistake.
5. You need 2 zippers, the front one and an invisible one in the side seam.

So that is it, I think. My dress wadder and now nothing to wear for my daughter's graduation in 12 days. I have a very pretty red and white knit, I will look for a nice, simple dress pattern. I need simple!

What about the title? Well, like Linday T Sews reinvented a dress into a tunic, I reinvented the dress into a skirt, I just had to do something, the fabric is just too wonderful. Pictures coming soon.