Admission of guilt time: I hadn’t used my sewing machine for months before this project. To be honest, I kind of lost my passion for sewing for a little bit there and also my studio was absolute chaos so every time I stepped into the room I got anxious. Did I fix it? I mean sort of, eventually. But then as I finished fixing up my living room and finally built some shelving in my studio and changed my whole workspace, I became really inspired (before I was done organizing lol and I still have boxes of stuff I need to organize on my new shelves).
But I found this pattern from Spaghetti Western Sewing (incredible name and vibe) and got really excited about the concept. Was about to hit buy and then as I was organizing, I found an extremely similar pattern in my stash. Probably from when I helped clear out my grandma’s basement and uncovered literal boxes full of patterns and ufo’s. And then I started going through my own ufo drawer and found this pair of secret pants I had tried to make and then realized I hated the style, which had made me so frustrated that I had to put it in time out for a year. But because they were secret pants they included a lot of fabric (that I had purchased specifically for that project, another reason it was in time out), so that meant I had quite a bit to work with.
You can’t really tell in my pictures (good, because that means it worked) but I couldn’t cut anything on the fold. Also even shortening the arms to 3/4 length wasn’t enough to cut both without piecing at least one of them. However, because I had gotten so far in my pants project I didn’t have to serge very many seams so they were pretty easy to just cut and throw together. Also, I had already cut out the pockets so I didn’t have to do much to add those in.
Some weird parts of the dress construction: I really should have pleated the vintage floral ribbon instead of gathering it to show off the pretty retro flowers. I actually had started by pleating, but got frustrated with making them look even. Also, the neck ruffle. I should have put that in pretty early in the construction by sandwiching it in between the yoke and yoke facing. Because I didn’t add it until the end, I had to finish the edges which made it kind of bulky at the top. Not the worst, but not the best.
All in all, pretty good for a salvage project. And since I purchased all these supplies a year or more ago, I count this as basically free 😛
Dropout Daisy 
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