One of the most exciting things for me lately is seeing pictures popping up of everyone’s Perth dresses, it’s been absolutely wonderful seeing it work and how everyone makes it look even more amazing than I could have dreamed! … I personally think it looks fab on everyone but then maybe I’m a wee bit biased? 😉 By the way; by far the most oft-repeated feedback I have received has been requests for a greater size range… I promise this is being worked on right now, as we speak! type? read? well, right now, anyway. And will be on offer pretty soon.
But in the meantime… behold, my lovely testers! all totally rocking their Perth creations… and I should just mention that the sleeves have been shortened by 5cm in the final version of the pattern.
Vesna of @kelerabeus ; blog: kelerabeus
SaSa of @paisleypirouette ; blog: Alles neu macht der Mai!
Sue of @acolourfulcanvas blog: A Colourful Canvas
Ylenia of @len.blueskystitch
Megan of @meggipeg blog: Create with Wild Abandon
… and last but not least; Mum!
Now for a little story… I have to confess that I made Mum’s dress here! Mum did print out the pattern and made a dress, but it was a little small and oddly shaped, which was very confusing. It took me quite a while to work out WHAT the heck was going on … she’d sent me photos of her pattern which had some weird anomalies. It was during the lead up to our release, and it was all quite stressful actually, totally doing our heads in. Finally she had the opportunity to bring her pattern itself up to my place, I made a few measurements and worked out that their printer must have been set to “fit to scale” for parts of it, meaning the pattern was partially printed out of whack. It was miraculous that she’d managed to make the dress at all, really.
A timely reminder… when printing the pattern at home, check that the printer is set to ACTUAL SIZE!!!!
I didn’t want to make poor Mum make another dress, and I can practically make them in my sleep now, so I resolved to make one for her myself, a little surprise, to make up for all the stress the mis-printed pattern put her through. I whizzed up to Fabulous Fabrics, bought some of this lovely charcoal grey linen and a purple-y/grey pearly button that I think looks absolutely beautiful with it! and quickly whipped one up. I think it looks absolutely beautiful on her, she loves it! and it fits perfectly too, yay! so all is well that ends well.
At Mum’s request, I made the sleeves longer, and she decided she likes them rolled up to make a faux cuff.
I’m showing it twice… but really, that button?!! I LOVE it!!
It’s such a stylish pattern and looks great both in print and various colours! 🙂
thank you!
All the versions of your beautiful pattern show what a versatile and well-designed pattern it is. It looks great on everyone, no matter how different each woman may be. Sweet story behind your mother’s dress and think the version you sewed for her is clearly full of her daughter’s love. 🙂
thanks Lisa 🙂
I love your blog and read it all the time! Your Perth dress is such a beauty – I DO hope you follow through with releasing the pattern in larger sizes!
thank you so much Marcia! It is in the works!
Beautiful, stylish dresses and top, congratulations to you and Cassie on a great pattern.
thanks Sharon 🙂
It is so fun to see how fabulous everyone looks in different fabric choices! I am looking forward to more!
thank you so much! I’m looking forward to seeing yours 🙂
I’m so pleased you did a roundup as there were makes here which I haven’t seen before. I really like what your Mum did with the sleeves, and of course, I love that collar closure so much.
thank you Sue 🙂
What a lovely round up of all the different pattern testers! Thank you so much for letting us sew this cool and stylish little dress! I love all of those colourful versions! But I love my boring grey, too, and isn‘t your mum‘s grey linen dress a beauty?
thank you so much for making such a cute dress SaSa! I would never have described your dress as boring! It is chic and classy, just like you xxx
It’s lovely to see the different versions. I really like the ones made with printed fabric, which I didn’t even consider when I made mine. I also love that grey linen on your Mum. This is a unique pattern that looks very classic.
Wow, they all look so good Carolyn! Your pattern is fabulous!
Huuuuge congratulations Carolyn. I’ve been overseas and have just been listening to the the new podcast ‘Stitcher’s Brew’ and they mentioned your pattern release. Fabulous looking dress, well done to you and and Cassie x
You know that I love @happylat’s floral confection. A LOT. But. Ylenia’s large watery dots dress is gorgeous! Actually…TRULY…as I scroll down through the different fabrications, I LOVE them all. Everyone’s Perth dress/tops look awesome!
When it came to PDF patterns, my biggest learning curve was getting the pattern to print properly.
And…for some weird reason, this post just showed up in my bloglovin’ today.
Great to see how well this dress looks on a variety of wearers. I love the collar feature (and your mum’s button!) and despite saying I couldn’t buy any more patterns until I had used some of the backlog I’m very seriously tempted.
Well done on a fabulous design Carolyn