Daisy

Cardigan - vintage, dress - made by me, everything else thrifted

This is the last outfit from my Easter weekend adventures! This was what I wore on the monday when we took our guests to visit the Melbourne Zoo (hence the slightly awkward posing again.. there were lots of people around!) These photos were actually taken in the butterfly house, with the hopes that a few would land on me, but I think we only managed to catch that one in mid-air in the photo above and then they all seemed to avoid our little corner, I guess they were as photo shy as I was being.

This dress is one I made recently from a bedspread I got at an op shop - I couldn't resist the colour or the big daisy print!

The pattern I used was McCalls 5695. I originally had plans to make the little matching jacket too, but ran out of the fabric I was using. I'm thinking of making it now out of a solid coloured cotton, like white, and doing the collar and bow details with the daisy fabric, but we'll see.

I promise it fits much better than it looks here, I just was too nervous of the people to notice that I needed to adjust =/

I really love how it came out. The skirt is done in four parts and has pleats the whole way round so that was pretty time consuming but not difficult. I had a go at my first ever lapped zipper (and a hand picked one at that) and it came out pretty well! I really like the vintage look it lends so I'll probably use this technique on most of my sewing projects from now on. Also when I first made the muslin the bodice gaped quite a lot at the front so I had to work out how to fix that, which I did reasonably well.

I had planned for my set to last the entire weekend but alas, it was not to be, so I straightened it and chucked some rolls/curls in the front and topped it all of with a scarf.