This is the Chantilly Dress by Colette Patterns.
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| Front View |
The main fabric of the dress is a polyester lining fabric that I picked up at a garage sale. The yoke and midriff pieces are a matching cotton with brown piping that I made as well.
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| Back View |
I thought adding piping to the yoke pieces would make the pieces pop and I think it does just that.
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| Close up of front panels with piping |
I made a muslin first of just the top pieces and needed to take out about 2 inches of gathering in the front. Being not very well endowed myself, there was just way too much fabric in the front for me.
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| Closer close-up view! |
The pattern has an invisible zipper on the side. You can see the tab of the zipper at the top of side seam here.
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| Another view |
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| Another side/back view |
The dress also has side in-seam pockets. Since I was running out of fabric, I only had enough to put in one pocket instead of two. You can see my lining fabric just peeking out in this picture. Lining fabric is some cheap polyester that I already had in my stash.
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| View of pocket |
Happy Sewing!
