Jamie Dress Finished!

Wow! Had so much fun sewing this dress, the deadline for the sew along really helped me. Here's my take on it: The size I made after taking my measurements was one size larger than if I were to buy a dress at the store. I have a small bust so I didn't make the bodice one size larger as Sara recommended . I ended up cutting the front elastic smaller still to adjust further. For the skirt I used my ruffling foot and ended up using one WOF, (width of fabric) trimming the selvedges,

plus about 5". I just cut the skirt width after pinning it to the bodice. It is a tad poufy, but not too bad. Overall, the fit was awesome for the bodice and the instructions were easy to follow. Somehow I missed the step to encase the elastic, so its free flowing on the bodice, but it seems fine. Love love the patchwork I did for the bodice. Its adds some fun without being to busy using all black and white fabrics~ not that I am opposed to mixing it up!! I now have a fun basic black dress. :)

Jamie Dress Sew Along

I am participating in the sew along Jamie dress with Sara from http://www.sewsweetness.com/. I have procrastinated in starting this project mostly because I couldn't figure out which fabrics. They needed to be from my bursting stash, so I went round and round. I finally decided a basic black dress would be nice in one of my fav prints, Casey Scroll. Still didn't cut it out. I kept thinking of patchwork like Sara did for one of her dresses, but I just wasn't sure. I really don't think I could cut out and sew using all the same print. I'm just a patchwork kinda person. I finally decided on using 4 1/2" strips with the center of the front bodice larger to fussy cut the flower. This is how I sew~ 4 1/2 sounds good. Oh, whoops, I need another 1/2". I"ll just add more of the polka dot. I just fly by the seat of my pants. It works well for quilts~ not so much for clothing!! It is fine, hopefully no one will notice the extra add on. I couldn't sleep last night & I felt creative so I went through my fabrics and picked out which ones & sewed them up for the bodice and cut out the other pieces. Then I got everything ready to sew the next day & went to bed at 1:15. Then as I was trying to sleep I thought about using the fancy stitches on my machine to give it a crazy quilt look and a little more detail. Sheesh, finally went to sleep. Got to get back to bumper sewing and then fit in the dress in between today. More pics posted on my flickr page.