Mirroring Suzy Bee Sews - Life So Strange It Should Be Fiction

This poor pattern doesn't really resemble the original Ava dress anymore! I needed a dress with a zipper for the morning of my friends wedding and wanted a comfy knit one so that's how this dress idea was born. I wanted it different enough from my last version too which is why I changed the back and added sleeves. Fabric: Blue spandex knit from Spotlight and a mixture of bias binding on the waistband and some black knit for the neckline and sleeve binding. The lace is a remnant from Clear It. Adjustments; Same as last time; Size 14 Added 1" FBA Changed darts into princess seams Added the waistband. Dropped the neckline by 1" Sewed the side seams last and took it in by 1/2" each side. Made the length somewhere in between the short and long length. Added pockets from the Burda dress I last made. Plus - morphed the back pattern pieces into one then added the lace cut-out. Added sleeves The sleeves were a bit of a fiddle - I forgot ...

I seem to be going back through my old patterns lately and sewing them up! I made this as the blouse a couple of years ago. I always wore it with a wide belt though as it had a tendency to poof out on my stomach so I got rid of it in the big wardrobe cull of 2015. This time I wanted to correct the things that bothered me with the first version - added a waistband to eliminate the poofyness, used smaller bias binding to make the binding sit smoother, got rid of the darts and added princess seams. Otherwise its a fairly similar colour palette - purple ponte and a basic black lace! Pattern details; Size 14 Added 1" FBA Changed darts into princess seams Added the waistband. Dropped the neckline by 1" Left out the zipper (hooray for ponte!) Sewed the side seams last and took it in by 1/2" each side. Took 1.5cm out of the bodice length (once the skirt was added the weight dropped it all too low) Made the length somewhere in between the short and long leng...