Pink for Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day! And yes, my second post in two days. I just can’t stand to look at all that bluish green on my blog from my last post. Just me…

I need pink!

This little dress is one of the muslins I did for my MOB dress. I’ve done 5 muslins from all sorts of pattern combos. Exhausted. But my MOB dress is in the closet and will be blogged post-wedding 🙂

This version is basically my Jungle January dress,

BurdaStyle 05/2010 #113 with modified bodice

with 3/4 length sleeves, as in this muslin.

It’s done in Tribal Stripe cotton lawn from FabricMart.com. So soft and easy to sew, it presses beautifully and doesn’t wrinkle!

Originally I thought I would line it because it’s a very thin lawn. And I made a full lining, planning to connect it to the main dress with binding only at the neckline. I even added lining for the sleeves, but thought I might remove it.

I attached neckline facing using the main fabric, so that any peek-a-boo into the back or front bodice would be pretty and not afford a glimpse of lining. The facing was sewn on top of the lining, to prevent show-through of the print.

Maybe this will make a nice summer dress or nightie! because I didn’t use it. The dress doesn’t need it. In retrospect, I think the lining would defeat the coolness of the lawn fabric in our Florida heat and humidity.

Things learned…

So I removed that pretty facing, underlined it, and used it on the dress. I used every scrap of 5 yards of fabric. Planning, matching, and sewing the pattern of stripes was pretty challenging, particularly with the attachment of the skirt to the bodice. Additionally, the skirt has three tiers – I didn’t want to end up with the same stripe where two tiers joined!