Yes, there are an orange dress and a lemon yellow dress coming up. The orange one is Vogue 8789, I can’t remember when I bought this, but it was one of my first pattern purchases. I like the neckline and kimono sleeves and the fact that the bodice is cut on the cross – I think I’ll probably make one of these out of tape measure fabric at some point. I altered it to put the zip in the back but I won’t do that next time I make this (and there will be a next time – it was a quick make); I’ll also make the bodice a bit shorter and maybe take the bust darts in even more than I did on this version. I also didn’t use the skirt pattern pieces; I think there would have been too much bulk around the waist if I had. So the skirt is just two widths of the fabric (about 60” wide) and that is plenty full enough as it is quite thick cotton.
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| V-8789 |
And now to the lemon. This is the first dress I made back in June of this year when I returned to sewing. I had seen lots of lovely Cambies by Sewaholic on the interwebz, decided I wanted one and that I had to start somewhere so that’s how this became the first dress I’d sewn for hmm… let’s say 20+ years. The yellow seersucker fabric which I used I’d had for so long that I can’t remember when or where I bought it, and it was 36” wide which I seem to recall used to be a standard width for fabrics in my dim and distant youth, but not any more. Because of this I didn’t follow the recommended cutting layout and used pretty much all of the 3m that I had. I put a centred zip in this, and after it was finished decided it was time to buy an invisible zipper foot and all the dresses I’ve made since have had concealed zips.
This is such a pretty pattern, I really like it a lot a lot a lot and will definitely make more. Although not in the depths of winter. But come next spring – oh yes, I have lots of fabric permutations in my head already.
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| Yellow A-line Cambie |
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