Here’s something I made recently… a rather lovely, if I say so myself – slip dress that I feel is perhaps almost too pretty to even wear!
This is the new Simone slip dress pattern by Closet Core patterns, I was lucky to be picked as a tester and I also luckily had a short length of pink satin in my stash already, plus a very short length of cream coloured lace that was fortuitously the exact and perfect length for the project… one of those projects where it was all just very lucky and fell happily into place.
I initially wasn’t going to post pictures of my actual self wearing the slip, these are the fitting pictures I sent off to Closet Core for pattern feedback… but I think they’re ok really. One of my all-time goals with this blog in the first place was to get over my awkward attitude towards photos of myself, so I shouldn’t revert now, hmmm?
The slip was of course quite easy and fun to make; I love testing patterns and trying to make things carefully. I was very careful in lining up the edges of fabric to my table before cutting out and I measured the bias with scrupulous care; and I think that paid off. However, despite great care in stay-stitching the back top edge; I must have stretched that bit out just a bit because it flips out against my back, so *shrug*
Anyway, it’s certainly turned out quite lovely in my opinion 🙂 and of course the satin is beautiful to wear; so I’m very happy with this useful edition to my wardrobe. I’ve already worn it a couple of times underneath other things; which feels like a very swish thing to do! I always feel like this when I wear my ivory Ruby slip too…. maybe I should make a few more!
I finished off the bottom edges with a skinny triple-stitched hem, and the side seams using french seams. btw, I just love this (above) picture! these finishes look so lovely in satin. The stronger pink colour in the close-up pictures is much closer to its real colour than the slightly washed out colours in my modelled shots, I don’t know why it’s like that!
Oh! my #use30 pledge came into play again, hip hip hooray! I managed to polish off another 1.5m with this here lovely bit of frippery; so I’m up to 17m down, and with 13m to go!
I’m back on track!
