started on the popover dress this morning... I had forgotten how lovely and silky the fabric is, as the partially cut out pieces were wadded up in my UFO pile, and quite wrinkly. I think that getting this done before the dog days of August are here will be a good plan.
The fabric is a lovely very dark indigo blue, with faux shibori motifs. The assorted designs make rather wide vertical bands on the fabric, I only turned the photo on the diagonal to show all three of the designs...
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indigotiger's faux-shibori popover dress
What did you make and what material did you use?
A loose lightweight summer dress suitable for the hot days of August, made from some wonderfully silky rayon broadcloth printed with faux shibori (japanese tie-dye) motifs in a very dark indigo colorway. Actual shibori is often done using indigo as a dye
Pattern used This is my TNT summer dress pattern, which I initially modified from the concept of this Nani Iro design (https://web.archive.org/web/20120320085600/http://www.kokka.co.jp/so-ing/sewing/pdf/2009/storeeto_wanpi.pdf) back in 2010, mostly by adding triangular gores to increase the width and twirl-factor of the skirt, and to enlarge I have made at least eight more over the years. A pattern that consists of primarily rectangles and triangles is easy to cut out and sew when heat makes doing anything a challenge
how you made it/problems overcome/etc
I really wanted to take advantage of the faux shibori border print fabric (https://d2d00szk9na1qq.cloudfront.net/Product/c92305e6-8adb-45c1-8525-e355107b09a6/Images/Large_0438041.jpg), so I cut the body panels along each edge to shift the motifs to a vertical arrangement, and cut the small front back gores, and the larger side gores from the remainder of the fabric. I like to stabilise the hemline and make hemming easier on these flowy dresses by adding a narrow straight grain band around the hemline, which meant that I could simply turn and stitch a hem rather than faff about with the curved edge. I had a different piece of batik rayon bias strip floating about the sewing space, and when it fell across this project, I decided to use it for the neckline binding, just for fun
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