Sunday Set for Autumn Days

Me again, I’ve been getting some quality sewing time in for my holidays, so here is a latest offering! I had some blue denim coloured chambray, which I intended to use for a shirt for my brother, I wasn’t getting round to it so I promptly began using it for something for myself (selfish, I know, please don’t judge me!) I have used View A of the Cotton and Chalk dungaree design pattern.

As I was using a plain fabric I wanted to jazz it up a bit; there’s lots of top stitching on this one and it needed buttons so I thought to use colour for this would be perfect. As I was making it, I was thinking, this looks AMAZING! Now it’s made, I feel like it does look slightly minion-esque… hence the name of my blog post. Though I am pleased with the construction and I still definitely intend to wear it with pride!

I made no changes to the pattern at all, even the straps were a perfect fit. I practised some very neat yellow top-stitching. (Go me!)

 

Inserted the zip, which was pretty much the first step, something I haven’t seen before. I inserted some really cute pockets with the fabric left over from another make. They look so cute!

I also hemmed the bottom of the dress in this fabric, just because I like extra details like that so much!

I chose some stand out buttons and did button holes in the yellow thread to go with the top-stitching; a bit of a risk when I’ve only just mastered button holes! The only other thing I did differently was to do little bar tabs at the top of the pockets so it doesn’t wear over time.

The construction of this was super easy and it makes a good wardrobe essential, if you see the pattern about I would definitely grab yourselves one.

We visited Hatherslaw light railway on our holidays and spent some time looking for ‘Scarycrows’ in Etal and also took a few pictures from the gorgeous roof terrace. We’ve had some beautiful autumn weather.

 

For more pictures and information please see my Accidental Minion Dress post on my blog.