Thursday, May 26, 2016

Dresses 2 & 3. Have been copied

Dress 2, the short one has actually been copied twice.  Once in the Citron color at the end of the last blog and once in this periwinkle linen knit.

The originals were made in linen/cotton knit which is a little less transparent, but with a coverup this linen knit covers well, i.e., my dummy wears no underwear!  Here's the back view


Found a Flax top in the same color in my, closet.  Wow!

Dress #3 is my fav, I think, with that cute little built in pocket in a longer length.  Here is the original.

I made it a coverup using V9170 out of a stretch cotton shirting from Michael Levine


I'm not usually a big check fan, but they are all over ready to wear this season and I liked the one I bought for our Europe trip.  Loved the stretch, for sure.

Anyway, this pattern really uses the check in interesting ways.

Plan to wear this out tomorrow night

So, back to the dress.  Copied it and made this more subtle marine blue linen knit from High End Fabrics on eBay (same place I bought the periwinkle for dress #2)

Had a Chicos jeans jacket with the tag on to go with the dots in the denim

After I took the finished garment to my closet, I also had a Tribal shirt that I teamed it with today, as it's much too muggy here for denim jackets!  The Tribal shirt has an interesting thing going on with stripes, so I'm glad to have something to wear with it.



4 comments:

  1. So now I should decide on buying the linen knit. Looks very nice!

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    1. I should add a caveat on the linen knit from EBay. It grew about 4" throughout the day. Since the length was mid calf, it didn't cause me to trip'or anything. Hoping to "reverse the growth" in the laundry! It's very muggy here and the dress was very cool, for sure.

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  2. I like the longer -grown- length
    ~Donna

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  3. I like the longer -grown- length
    ~Donna

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