'I, Suzy Sherratt of http://sewfabricallyaddicted.blogspot.co.uk/, sign up as a participant of MeMadeMay 2015. I endeavour to wear something I have sewed each day for the duration of May 2015 starting a little late from May 5th due to forgetting all about doing it last year, incidentally the photos I took of which have not been uploaded!'
This is a dress I wore on the 5th May 2015 and I made only recently - the pattern Butterick B4914 by Maggy London. I have had the pattern for ages and resisted making it as a lot of the jersey fabric pieces in my outsize stash are 2 metres in length and the pattern suggested needing 2.4m. On a visit to Goldhawk Road with my daughter Sam I obtained a 3 metre length of jersey specifically determined to make this dress... I had carried the pattern around with me on the trip! It was meant to be £3-50 a metre but the owner offered me it for £3 a metre and then as it turned out to be the last 3 metres on the roll said would I like to buy the whole piece for £7. I am quite sure that I have managed to cut the dress out of only 2m and so have enough left for a little jersey bodycon dress too - from Sam's pattern that she made.
With this pattern, I was really careful to keep the gathers in the middle section of the dress very evenly spread and make sure they were sewn into the seam firmly as I was concerned that they could droop and look unsightly - I think I managed them ok!
