Hello! I’m wearing a new dress. The cool fingers of winter are tickling at the edges of our days so obviously I had to make a light and fluttery, floaty white linen thing for myself. It was only logical * 😀
Actually, the truth is that I made it a while ago now! when we were still getting very hot weather and I have worn it several times already. The pattern is the Zsalya from Kate & Rose patterns. Kati emailed me to ask if I would like to test one of their lovely new range; thank you so much for the opportunity Kati! It was so hard to choose just one! The Zsalya is a dress or top pattern with two sleeve variations, and I made the dress with short sleeves.
I knew straight away I would love this design. It has no closure, you just slip it on over your head and it is easy breezy, and as cool as. In all senses of the word. 🙂
The sleeves are quite cute. I like how they are tightly gathered in at the top which lends them a sweetly pert and boxy shape, and they have a pretty petal-shaped hemline.
The neckline is so clever. I think it’s my favourite feature of the dress. When I first looked at how open it was I considered putting in a little rouleau loop and button closure, but you know what? there is absolutely no need. Gape-age just doesn’t happen, thanks to the clever design. The crossover yoke is open so you can get your head through quite easily, but once the dress is on it all sits nicely flat and closed with a safe and demurely high neckline. Clever!
I edged the neckline with a patchworked strip of bias cut cotton scraps; this was simply sandwiched between the yoke and yoke facing before stitching them together.
I added in-seam side pockets 🙂
Really, even though it looks blustery as all get-out in these pictures and it was, it was also quite insanely hot and muggy on the day I took them. So a loose little linen number was actually just what the Fremantle doctor ordered! I was getting bored with all my summer dresses so it was nice to have an excuse to make a new one. Summer dresses are such fun, both to make and to wear. And even this late in the season it’s always nice to have a fresh and new-ish summer dress waiting in the wings of the wardrobe over winter 🙂
* Mr Spock, of course
Details:
Dress; the Kate & Rose Zsalya dress, white linen with patchwork details
Thongs, Havaianas
