The Most Successful Toile; A Myosotis Trial (and Toile)

Hiya all! Now that I have posted all my catching up makes, I am up to the most current makes! I have developed a new strategy - spend the half term (or part of the holidays) cutting out things and then I have lots of projects set up for the term time, when I can actually only get a half hour or so of sewing time in and I don't have time to cut things out! I cut out 6 things for the last half term and all but two are finished (I have one dress which isn't even started, but also a bomber which only needs a zipper which is almost finished!), so I'm currently at the point where I'm thinking about the next set of things.


Add to that the fact that I finally got a hair cut (thanks to lockdown easing!), so I thought I'd snap a few pictures of my most recent batch of makes. This dress is potentially the most successful thing I've ever made - definitely the best toile! I've worn it at least once a week since I made it - sometimes 3 times in a week, when I'm at home and nobody can judge me!


This is the Deer and Doe Myosotis dress. I sized down for this one as the pattern is designed to be oversized - as it is I think it's the right amount of oversized in this size. I can also still get it on and off without having functional buttonholes, which is easy and will save me time in the next version! I sewes up a size 42 as I'm normally a D&D 44


This one has the tiered ruffle skirt from View A, but the regular sleeves from View B. I found the instructions pretty logical - with the exception of the collar. Later I realised that this was entirely user error due to me misreading the instructions doing this kind of collar for the first time. For the next one, I watched a quick Youtube video, realised my mistake, and it went in super smoothly!


This gorgeous fabric is from the mill shop in Fabworks. It's another one of the pieces I picked up when I went up for the Sheffield Sewcial Anorak August meetup. It's a gorgeous 100% cotton fabric, with a really soft, almost brushed texture to it. It's absolutely gorgeous to wear!


I did have a bit drama with this skirt though. I had bought 3.5 or 4m of this fabric - plenty for the dress and enough to make something else, or so I thought. Except when I went to assemble the skirt I realised that the fabric had not been lined up on the plaid part straight. It meant it order to pattern match (which I did pretty well in the end!) that I had to trim the skirt panels. Only problem was that they were then too short to make the skirt work without being indecent! So I had to completely recut the skirt. I'm really glad I bought so much fabric and in the end I used the first set of skirt panels to cut out some of the pieces for my Closet Core Pouf. And the end result looks so good!



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