Boy this Vogue 8805 is getting a workout! Here it is, slightly modified, in yet another (gasp, horror) DROP WAIST DRESS. Seriously now, it is starting to look like I have a problem. But in my defence (if I can call it one), this was not meant to be the next dress of my series, AND I actually don’t know where this dress came from. I didn’t plan to make it. There was no vision in my head. I just sat down with some fabric that I wanted to use up from my stash and suddenly a drop waist started to appear.
I used the leftover cotton ribbing from my Rigel Bomber in the sleeves. This makes the dress lovely and comfortable. The rest of the dress was made using a Liberty of London called Lodden Blue that I was lucky enough to pick up as a remnant from Tessuti Fabrics a while back. Unfortunately, as I look at the photos, I can now see that I cut the back a little off grain, bah! All the worse because I had this sinking feeling as I was cutting it. I knew I shouldn’t have cut on the fold, but instead drawn up the full pattern piece to cut as one.
I was inspired to use the Liberty in this dress after seeing Emilie’s creation, as posted on Sew Tessuti a while back. I probably wouldn’t have thought of using Liberty otherwise, and can you believe it, this is actually the first Liberty print dress I have ever sewn for myself?! So here is a little happy twirl to celebrate this beautiful Summer fabric!
The modifications that I made to Vogue 8805 were:
- shortening the sleeves (back to 2cm from the yoke seam)
- shortening the middle panel by about 5cm
- Adding a ruffle panel of 2 x widths of Liberty
- I took about 2.5cm off the neckline all the way around and then added a band
- Used my twin needle to finish the sleeve hems
i love your liberty fabric! and so smart to go with a contrast yoke. great dress!
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that's a lovely liberty print, a perfect summer dress. I love sewing with liberty and have made my husband a few shirts in various prints, though it's hard to find masculine ones. He loves wearing them.
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Thank you!
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I've very nearly made my hubby one in a Liberty floral a few months ago but chickened out at the last minute. I really should give it a go next time. I imagine it would make sewing a business shirt that bit more fun 😉
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I do so much sewing for myself sometimes I feel like I should do some for the better half, ive just put the prints ive used on instagram #barbarajanemade
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i think this one is my favorite 🙂
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So pretty! And now I'm off to stage an intervention via Dropwaists Anonymous 🙂
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I'm in big trouble. There are a few more along the way before my travel hiatus….and I've begun to inflict them on others too 😉
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Thank you! I think you just can't do anything bad with Liberty can you 😉
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I love this! I have seen many lovely versions of V8805 but this is now my favourite. (Everytime I try to buy this pattern at a Spotlight sale, it's been out of stock).
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Thank you! It is such a great pattern, because it has custom fits for different cup sizes. So you can sew it up right out of the packet with no need for a FBA or SBA (in my case ;-))
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