This lovely Pink dress with boat neck has been hand printed with Kim's Flower stamp in pinks. the original seen here was printed in blue hues as a gift for Kim.
The pattern for this dress was thrifted recently and as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to print up some pinks in this pattern.
I like the thought of a boat neck, but now having made the dress would probably never do it again from this pattern. Being an old pattern it had no clear indication of where to cut off the scoop of the dress (to remove the rounded collar) and was left guessing the stitching lines - which really needed to be accurate to fit.
The pattern is a Butterick 2194 in size 6 to fit breast 24"
The other minor problem I had with this pattern was to do with my printing. I misread the pattern and thought there was only one large panel for the skirt so didn't print enough fabric, hence I had to go back for another session of printing. Urgh my aching back.
So all in all about 4 hours of printing and a good morning and part afternoon to make up this dress - that's what I call time consuming. I dont even have anybody that I made it for - made it just because I loved the pattern and thought the print would look cute in it.
I still have buttonholes to go and a few hand stitches to be done, but I should finish that tomorrow.
