Name: Lauren
Skill Level: Intermediate
Pattern: Ceylon
Blog: lladybird
Her post about the dress: Completed: Colette’s Ceylon Dress
What kind of fabric did you use? Lightweight 100% cotton pin dot shirting.
How did you decide to reflect your personal style in the pattern? I piped the waistline seams (hips and underbust) and sleeve hems with handmade white piping. I used self-covered buttons. Oh, and I made the inside pretty, too – finishing the facings with white bias tape and catchstitching the hem with pretty white lace.
What thoughts do you have about the project? I love this dress and I really enjoyed the process of making it. I plan on making another one with lightweight wool (crepe? maybe?) in a bright color and making a matching self-covered belt :)
Thanks, Lauren!
Lauren is a fab seamstress and I LOVE this dress, it’s one of my all time favourites. Great to see her featured. x
This dress looks just delicious! Can’t wait to see how it looks in wool =)
Lovely job. The covered buttons and piping really make it something special. I love that sewing enables us to pick out all those little details to make each pattern our own.
Gosh, that is just as cute as buttons!