Enchanted By Sewing

Dress creation brings out the romantic in me. When I looked ahead to my summer sewing, I thought if I could sew only one garment for the season, it would be a dress. Fiona, the Irish Laurel dress, satisfied my yearning to design and sew the perfect summer frock. This dress was a very satisfying project for my arty romantic style. In between sewing summer essentials - shorts and tees - I worked off and on to determine what design lines spoke to me about summer, mock up a miniature sloper pattern to test my ideas, draft a pattern from my sloper, and then finally to sew up Fiona, while summer was still on! *Pensamientos Primeros - Thinking through my idea for this summer dress *Technicos - Pattern Drafting and Kissing Zipper using a Prick Stitch *Pensamientos Finales - Fiona's Design Lines have roots in my own history