Very nice piece! It’s a simple dress that you just throw on and you’re styled. No buttons, no zips, no fastenings. With the short sleeves it’s a nice mix between casual and elegant looking. Love the fabric: it’s a bit heavier than “normal” viscose, has a very nice drape, and doesn’t crease much.
Pattern
Tilly and the Buttons, size 4 https://shop.tillyandthebuttons.com/products/lotta Knee-length with short sleeves.
Fabric
100% Lenzing Ecovero Viscose from Kattun Stoffe, Floral shade bottle green, 165 g/m2, 1.45 m width. Suggested length: 2.5 m, actual needed: 2 m (since skirt part was cut against the grain).
Adjustments
Short sleeves, cut length to just above knee, a bit less volume (i.e. width) in the skirt section. Added deep side pockets (cut in the same fabric). Since I cut the skirt part against the grain (not obvious difference with this fabric and the pattern), it would probably have even fit on 1.7 m if I had made the pockets from a different material. If even more volume is taken out of the skirt, then it would need even less fabric.
After a while the neck facing really bothered me, because it always looked sloppy. So I made some bias binding with leftover fabric and sewed it all around the neckline. Now it’s slightly bulky, but it doesn’t bother me, and everything feels so much more secure and falls better.
Next time
- Get less fabric than indicated in pattern description (see above).
- Bias binding instead of facing for the neckline! The facing always flips up and peeks out.
- Slightly wider elastic, I like the look of that (similar to here).
- Maybe try a longer version with patch pocket in a double gauze, like this one?
- In Gingham fabric like this one? Or graphic print like this one)? Or in jersey like this one?
Here with Mum-made jumper in cotton yarn.
