Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle… [Eliza M Vintage – Eva Wiggle Dress!]

Here’s my entry to the “New to Me” contest. It’s the Eliza M Eva “Wiggle” Dress. The pattern came free with issue 6 of Love Sewing magazine last year. It’s the only pattern I own of Eliza M, but I have seen some other nice ones I may have to buy!

Of course the fabric is blue and white to tie in with my non-intentional blue and white themed month! (I made the blue and white stiped dress and the blue and white spotty skirt earlier this month!)

Anyway, back to the dress.

I sewed this up in no time at all. The construction is really straightforward – which is good as the pattern’s instructions are incomplete; they don’t even tell you to sew the facings to the dress; they skip straight to trimming and clipping the seams!

With no seams to finish as it’s sewn with knit fabric (I used a ponte roma to be precise) and only four pattern pieces, it was a breeze.

I do really like the finished dress. It almost fits me straight out the envelope; I just had to take in the back seam a bit as it was gaping at the top.

The only change I made to the pattern was to omit the zip, which should be at the centre back. With such a stretchy dress I don’t see the need for a zip! Next time I will cut the back piece on the fold.

I do really like the waist darts (which are called and drawn as bust darts in the instructions just to confuse you); they give the dress a nice shape.

Oh, I didn’t even attempt to pattern match because it’s impossible with the shape and size of fabric I used. I don’t think it matters anyway; the whole finished look is sketchy (not in a bad way) which I like! I quite like how the back is lighter than the front.

I’m off to pick some strawberries… meanwhile you may hop over to my blog, After Dark Sewing! 😛

Beth x