Much to my surprise, I'm mostly keeping up with my 52 Week Sewing Challenge, but I'm not really keeping up with blogging the challenge! I'm trying though - the them for Week Seven was sew something with hearts.
I did actually have some heart printed fabric in my stash (which isn't really surprising, given the size of my stash) but I didn't have a lot of it. I should have really made a blouse with it, but for some reason I had my heart set on (no pun intended) making a dress, which meant it was colour blocking time.
I decided to use this pattern, I've had it in my stash for a while, but I haven't made it much as in needs to be cut on the bias which uses more fabric than most of my patterns. I figured seen as I was colour blocking anyway, I felt ok using additional fabric.
Here's my fabric choices, the heart shaped fabric is actually batik (but I didn't buy it when I was in Indonesia, I got it from a Facebook group), although the colouring of the fabric tones went together well, when I was finished I decided that the two types of fabrics didn't really look that great together.
Here's the finished dress, and while it came out well, I just don't like it very much! On the upside it's well sewn, but on the down side I don't really like it and it's a little bit too big for me.
I did decide to share my interfacing with you though, I added bias binding for the first time and I really like it - I think I will be doing this in all of my dress facing in the future.
I have completed my week eight challenge which is up-cycling, and I'm pretty happy with it, so I will post about it soon.
