This is a quick and easy pattern and it's a great dress for warm days. The first one I made using some olive green double gauze which I bought in Coupons Merveilles in Montmartre when I visited Paris back in April. The colour really doesn't show up well in the photo. It's similar to the double gauze version in this post, although this time I evened out the length of the tiers a bit.
For the second, shorter version I used a triple gauze throw from Ikea (not sure how long the link will work for, it says it's a limited edition). I can't remember now what I'd actually gone to Ikea to buy, but it wasn't this - I saw it, liked the colour and thought 'I could get a dress out of that', and it ended up in the trolley... It frayed a lot while I was sewing it, there were dozens of little bits of green thread all over me / the dress / the floor, but I'm hoping that since all the raw edges are either finished with bias binding or overlocked, it won't be shedding any more!
With hindsight I should have cut the skirt tiers a bit longer to use up all the fabric, instead of now having 30cm of the full width of the fabric left over. Hey ho 🙂
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