Bird's Eye Bleuet Dress, Deer+Doe

Hello, dear sewists,

For quite some time I wanted to sew a dress out of a nani iro double gauze fabric. I finally decided to buy Bird's Eye blue which has got some metalic splashes in pale blue. Originally, I had intended to sew the Cinema Dress by Liesl+Co, but when the fabric arrived, I feared it would look too much "eco" or "bio" or 70s and changed plans.

Quelle: www.etsy.com/de/listing/221922033/japanischer-stoff-nani-iro-birds-eye

My final choice was the Bleuet Dress by Deer+Doe, my third dress of this pattern. You can see my first two dresses here.

Source: http://boutique.deer-and-doe.fr/bleuet-dress.html

When cutting the fabric, I was careful to consider the print and took my time (three hours). The pattern includes 1,5cm seam allowance. I sewed the vertical seams with 1mm less (moved the needle 1 point at right) out of fear the dress would be too snug with this maybe friable fabric. It worked fine, the dress is a little bit looser than the other too.

I didn't want the sleeves being so puffy and used the sleeves of the Zsálya Dress by Kate+Rose Patterns instead. To take the puffiness out, I pleated the pattern to make it more snug.

To give the dress structure I topstitched all the seams with a colour corresponding with the darkest splatter of the busy fabric without topstitching the buttonband. I used the triple stitch stretching the fabric slightly so it would not pucker too much lengthwise. I had to be careful at the curves for the back stitching not to be excentric. Hopefully, the topstitching will slightly pucker the seams at the wash to make it interesting.

I looked for buttons in a similar colour and found some nice mother-of-pearl-ones at Kurzwarenrausch at Munich. I sewed the buttonholes horizontally. The hemline I sewed with my foot for 6mm hems with a sky blue thread.

I like the result. The topstitching payed off.

Pattern: Robe Bleuet, Deer+Doe
Sleeves-pattern: Zsálya Dress, Kate+Rose Patterns
Size: 38 bust- 40 waist- 42 hips
Fabric: 3,70cm Nani Iro Birds Eye Jiu metalic double gauze.

The dress is very comfortable, the fabric is a just a dream.

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