Here is another pattern which had caught my eye on Instagram and so far I've made four of them. The first I made in May with some quilting cotton that I bought years ago and never made up because I kept changing my mind about which pattern to use. So I finally made a decision and it became this. The lower tier is a bit narrower than the pattern piece, because of the width of the fabric.
The next one, which I started in late May and finished in early June, was made with Coco linen from Merchant & Mills.
Bardon number three, which I made in July, was from some red cotton gingham which I bought years ago in John Lewis with no clear plan - I think it was an end of roll and reduced, I only had 1.7m, which is not a length I would have bought by choice. Because of that I used different pockets (from a purple Simplicity gingham dress which I made in July - I'll link to it once I've written about it) - the ones which come with the pattern are quite generous. As it was, one of the pocket pieces is made from two pieces of fabric sewn together! The front skirt piece is also slightly narrower than the back, because of the not-really-enough length of the fabric. For this one I modified the armholes to the next size down (although I can't now remember whether this was just for the front or the back bodice as well...), which gives a better fit.
And the last one so far is this one, which I made in August, in a lovely salmon double gauze which I bought from Fabric Godmother this summer.
The skirt pieces (tier 1) are per the pattern, but the next one down and the bottom frill I cut to use up all the fabric length. Again, I used smaller pockets (the same ones as for the red gingham version).
And here's the pattern, which unfortunately is only available as a pdf, so I pieced the bodice together and traced it, but helpfully the dimensions are given for the skirt sections so I just used the measurements and cut them out of dot and cross paper. (I hate piecing together A4 pdfs.)
Love it!
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