Frida la Catrina dress

Here is another dress sewn from my fabric stash, I'm not sure how long ago I bought the fabric - maybe four years ago?  I now have one remaining dress length of Frida Kahlo fabric to make up, and it's been in my stash longer than this one!  Maybe that will get sewn next year...

I bought 3.2m and used all of it.  Apart from the time it took to cut out, this was a quick sew - a lined Sew Over It Betty bodice and a vintage Simplicity 3749 skirt with pockets from Simplicity 2444, a combination I've made several times now.

Viva Frida dress

A few weeks ago I went to the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the V&A museum in London.  I had three lots of Frida fabric in my stash, the one I used for this dress being the one I bought first and visiting the exhibition was the incentive I needed to get it made up (I really like it, like so much of my fabric stash there was no reason for it languishing, I'd just not got around to sewing it).

The pattern combo is the same as I used for the the bamboo batik dress here.  This version took 2.7m of fabric, because I did do a bit of pattern placement although I can't remember now exactly what that was!

Now I just need to get the two other Frida fabrics made up...