Hello there! This is Anshu from Blooms And Bugs. I’m back with another dress pattern and tutorial perfect for fall.
Ever since I have drafted a peasant dress pattern, I have been playing around with different design elements to make the most of it. Here is a cute dress made with mixing a bunch of Clothworks collections ( Suzette, Picnic Pals, Safari Sweet) and adding in some fun details like ruffles, belt, easy appliques etc.
Supplies:
Coordinating fabrics in different prints
I chose the following fabrics:
Suzette for bodice and ruffle at the hem – half yard
Picnic Pals for Sleeves and belt fabric – half yard
Safari Sweet for skirt – half yard
Orange felt fabric
Approximate time: 2 hours
Skill Level: Beginner
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Thank you all so very much for your lovely comments!! I, too, really enjoy that collection and everyone at Clothworks is excited to see it getting doubled and rolled–one step closer to stores and your sewing machines!
The random number generator produced the number 4 so the 4th person to comment is the lucky winner!! I guess the early bird gets the worm on this one. Congratulations Lucy D.!! We’ll be in touch with you about your mailing address!
It’s time again for a Clothworks giveaway! Picnic Pals Organic just pulled into the port and Clothworks has got a little scrappy stash of every colorway including all the Everyday Organic Solids just waiting to get out to a lucky sewer. And, just to sweeten the deal, I’ve got 3, yes 3 darling patterns from Alyssa Thomas of Penguin + Fish. So, get in on the fun and sign up. Share the giveaway on Facebook with your friends! Here’s how to enter:
1. Leave a comment below.
2. HEad to facebook and share the post there, too!
3. Contest closes on Tuesday, August 21st at 12am(that is actually Monday night).
4. Good luck!!
See more projects using these fabrics on our pinterest page–just click here.
Though I could go on and on about all of what I saw at Quilt Market (my first one!), I think I’d rather share with all of you what others are saying. There have been quite a few lovely blog posts full of pictures, ideas and praise for designers, new collections, sewers and thoughts on what’s trending. I think I’ll leave it up to those folks to tell you more.
True Up: Kim has been featuring fabric companies, quilt designers and the like. Her posts all have tons of delicious photos and I particularly like this one about a quilt designer whose work is very striking, Carolyn Friedlander.
The Long Thread: Here’s a blog with lots of high quality content that is fresh on an almost daily basis. If you scroll down to the bottom of this one, you’ll read a little blurb on her thoughts about organic fabric. I second her on that one! And, she’d like to see magazines and fabric companies mixing collections in their quilt and project designs. I heard that more than once while at Market and it really resonates for me, too.
Generation Q: Despite having just put out a lovely first edition of their new print mag, Gen Q continues to pack their blog with great content. This post just happens to mention us (YAY!) and features the Picnic Pals FREE Quilt Pattern so I am, of course, partial to it, but there is also a really darling picture of pattern coming out of Oliver + S’s new branch: The Straight Stitch Society.
