My husband bought me a sewing machine! It’s one of the things on my short list of “need/wants” that I hadn’t been able to purchase since our wedding because of tuition. SO, how better to break in a new machine than to make up a new pattern and make an old dress new? I found a real beauty at the DI (a local second-hand store.)
I liked how it fit. I liked the material. I LOVED the ombre from dark purple to bright blue:
The only thing about the dress that I didn’t love was it’s lack of sleeves. I don’t wear sleeveless clothing. So, I found a tutorial on Pinterest for “flutter sleeves” which seemed like it could be altered to look quite at home on this dress. It required a pattern for bell-shaped sleeves that stack in layers, each layer one inch shorter than the last.
It turned out pretty well for a first project!
