April Showers and April Flowers

While the rain poured outside, I decided to get crackin on April's dress. Inspired by my co-worker, who is in love with linen, I checked out a store on 39th street; Grey Line Linen. I found a lovely, embroidered white and pink fabric to become my April dress.

I wanted something that would be fun for summer, so I decided to make a sleeveless dress. I found a pattern in my book and started to chop, chop, chop. After 4 hours on this rainy Sunday, I finished the dress.

This was by far the fastest dress I've sewn. I used the same pattern as February's dress but this time I wanted to make sure that the hip width was not as tight as before. I cut the dress a little bit wider but in the end it was too wide, so I had to take it in. However, that allowed me to make very nice pockets. I was quite happy with them this time. The one thing that I'm not sure I like or not is that the dress is quite loose fitting. Typically, dresses feel cumbersome after wearing them all day but in a loose fitting dress, I may not be itching to get out of it. This is definitely an experiment I am willing to try.