Trying Dress Making

 So out of the blue, my oldest daughter decided that she want's to try to make a dress.  Now, I can make 50 quilts a year, but I will admit, 3-d sewing scares me.   But it's always good to step outside of our comfort zone, right!!  So I told my daughter, Sure, I bet we can figure it out!    (And of course, I know we have Grandma Barbara just a phone call away, when I get totally lost ;)   So Jessi picked this Maxi Dress Pattern from Stella Pattern on Etsy.  

And we selected this gorgeous Botany Linen Print from Alli K for Moda Fabrics.  Did you know that Moda Fabrics makes Linen Prints!!  They are all so pretty and I am excited to see how it comes together in this dress.  I think the big print will go perfectly for this flowy dress!!   But first, I had to figure out how much fabric I needed because ya, this pattern is UK and I am not metric.   So a few conversions later, we guessed about 7 yards.  

And then, we printed the pattern.  And I have to say, while the pattern seemed super cheap on Etsy, I did not take into account the cost of printing 91 pages of a pattern.  Silly me.  But still, totally worth it because Jessi likes this dress pattern so much, she tells me it is very "on trend" right now!   And since she was so excited about it, she cut and taped all the pages together to make each pattern piece (it's tasks like this that I am grateful this is Jessi's project ;)   

And together, we managed to figure out where each piece goes on the yardage, got all the folds in the right place, and only had to recut one piece because Jessi accidently cut the notches inward instead of outward.  Ahh, the things you learn.   

Next up, Pinning and Sewing!!  We have taken a look at the first direction and it isn't totally confusing me so I think we are set to sew :)   But ya, can I say I am already scared thinking about the zipper, again, good thing for Grandma!!

Stay tuned, we will share progress hopefully soon!!