I already made a top of the AVA dress by Victory patterns, my blue AVA top. So I already know how the pattern looks on me. The flower printed fabric used to be a skirt, with a very ugly elasticated waist. I never wore the skirt but I really liked the fabric. The fabric I used for the dress comes from the ‘stoffen spectakel’ in Hasselt. I walked up and down the entire marked twice to find the right colour to match to the fabric of the skirt. I was looking for a tick cotton or other woven fabric, but I could not find any in the right colour.
I made the dress in size in size 4 without any
changes. Last time I made a size 6 but ended up way to big. I was afraid that
the size 4 would still be too big because of the stretch in the fabric. The
fabric that I used is a cotton jersey that has barely any stretch to it, but it
is still a jersey knit. On the positive side because of the stretchy fabric I
didn’t need a zip.
This time I realised what I needed to do with all the
pattern pieces. (You only need pieces G and H if you use very thin or lace
fabric.) But I didn’t make my own binding, the fabric shifted too much. I did
use it on the hem of the dress because I wanted to integrate the fabric on
another place than just the top. But the finish isn’t neat, but you can’t see
that on the outside!) My grandmother gave me bias tape in a matching colour. The
binding looks a lot better on the dress than on the top I made last year. This
time it lays nearly flat to the skin.
I love to twirl around in the dress it is such a flowy
fabric. I wore the dress on Christmas and got a lot of compliments.
