I found this dress at one of my favorite vintage shops, Dear Golden. I’ll admit that the color isn’t for me (and I adore pink), but those pockets!
I’m completely enamored with the stitched bows. I captured a close up shot for you. I’m not an embroidery expert, but it looks to me like some kind of heavy coarse thread. I suppose you’d stitch the outline of the bow, then fill it in with the loops. Very very pretty.
Sarai Mitnick
Colette Patterns
Owner and Designer
Sarai is the designer behind Colette Patterns and the author of The Colette Sewing Handbook. She loves sewing as a means to bring creativity and personal expression into daily life. She’s also a Crazy Cat Lady, vegetable grower, gin drinker, traveler, knitter, and bookworm.
Caitlin Clark
Design Assistant
Caitlin is our stitcher extraordinaire, putting together samples, helping with design, and coming up with fun projects for the website. She helps with photoshoots and is also our resident redhead and deputy Crazy Cat Lady.
This would be a fun dress to recreate…I might do the bow one of two ways:
1. find an applique just like it.
2. make a bow applique. Glue cording to wash-away fusible. Get it in the shape I want..plop another piece of wash-away on top for a wash-away fusible “sandwich.” Free-form stitch over the whole thing. Once I’m sure the whole thing won’t fall apart once the interfacing is gone, I wash away the fusible interfacing. Bada-bing! Insty bow.
That is an excellent idea! I really like the idea of using the wash-away interfacing to make appliques, I may have to give that a try sometime.