Keeping the memories alive…
This is another pattern from Simply Sewing magazine and I used the same cotton lawn as I did for the Sofia Dress but in a different colour, this is sadly another failure! My waist is much smaller than my hips so I’m not sure a wrap skirt would ever work for my body shape, or perhaps I needed to make my darts larger to bring the waist measurement in. Being inexperienced though, I wasn’t to …
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CRAFT Sewing CATEGORY Clothing PATTERN DETAIL Sofia Dress from Simply Sewing Mag MADE FOR Me FABRIC DETAILS Red paisley pattern cotton lawn from Pound Fabrics START/FINISH July 2023 I bought this magazine for this pattern, I just thought it looked a really lovely dress pattern. However I underestimated my ability to understand a dressmaking pattern and to start with, I really struggled to figure out what size to make and how to put it all …
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