Christmas Dress

Despite my sewing drought that's been going on for a couple months now, I did manage to make something special: a Christmas dress for my girl. I feel like I've sewn with only Oliver + S patterns lately, but I guess that's a testament to how much I love them. The pattern I used was the Birthday Party Dress. Though I'm happy with the end result, this was not my favorite O+S pattern to date. The construction of the dress was a little confusing (overcomplicated?) and I'm not wild about how the pleats came together. It was certainly not a bad pattern, just probably not one I'd recommend after sewing with several others of theirs.

Here's the pattern:

The fabric is the red version that you may recognize from this post, part of the Avalon line by Fig Tree Quilts. I adore this line--it has so many different colors and they all seem to go together without being too matchy. I bought this fabric over the summer and have been hoarding it ever since :)

I decided not to use my model for this photo shoot since I reallllly want to avoid the chance that the dress could get stained (or for that matter, wrinkled, since this thing was a pain to iron. Those pleats...). So you'll have to imagine, and I'll try to remember to post pictures when she actually wears it.

The chances that I'll sew anything between now and Christmas is slim, so I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I'll see you again in the New Year with more fun projects :)