Jump Rope dress
That’s it, another Christmas Day done and dusted! Thirteen adults and our two girls for lunch at our house – thankfully everyone brought along food to share and hubby cooked up a superb seafood barbeque, so it was a very successful day! My mother-in-law and sister-in-law even did a sterling job of cleaning up in the kitchen afterwards – luckily for me, because I was absolutely exhausted at the end of the day and was in bed at the same time as the girls…
Anyway, on to Clare’s dress! The pattern is the Jump Rope dress by Oliver + S.
There are so many lovely details in this dress. The placket and rounded collar, belt loops, tabs on the folded sleeve cuffs, patch pockets. I used a contrasting fabric (from Spotlight last year) for the inside of the placket, the under collar, the belt loops, the pocket flaps and the sleeve tabs. And we used very plain buttons to tone down that riot of colour and pattern.
Although Clare measured size 6, I took a punt and sewed size 7 (she is almost 8 years old). I was glad that I did – the 6 would have been quite snug. In the 7 she has growing room without it being too large. Perfect!
The fabric is from Sandi Henderson’s Meadowsweet 2 line.
Thanks so much to everyone who left me lovely comments on my last post. I hope that you all had an enjoyable day and that the holiday season continues in a positive vein.
LOVE your version of this dress, and Clare looks lovely too
Gorgeous job! I knew what it was as soon as I saw it haha. Pretty sad, really. Fabric is beautiful, as usual, and suits Clare so much! I went to get New Look 6009 today, and came out with New Look 6922- 30% off at Lincraft! Wish me luck sewing my first stretch outfits, given confidence by you, of course!
I love Clare’s dress so much! Just perfect for a pretty Christmas dress, and she’ll get heaps of wear out of it.
So glad you had a lovely day!
What a lucky girl Clare is – the dress looks fantastic! Well done.
Lara, another outfit with beautiful attention to detail. I haven’t made one of their patterns up but think they look very cool with the paper doll kind of people. Love it!
Gorgeousness!!
So grown up! Pretty dress!
It is wonderful – love it in that fabric.
Love this dress it’s gorgeous.