Dress-a-month: August gets mermaids
Several months ago - possibly even late last year - I saw a mermaid print fabric online, that I thought would be wonderful in a casual wear dress. I googled it and found it came in 3 different colour ways, and loved the darkest version.
Finding yardage (not a half yard piece) was trickier than I expected, but I found it at Never Enough Fabric in California. I got great customer service & communication from them too.
The only glitch in my plan - is entirely my error. Despite knowing that the States use imperial not metric measures I didn't realise the scale of the print because I saw the ruler on the Neverf Enough FAbricwebsite image (which isn't the photo above) and automatically translated it as centimetres not inches hence the print is 2.5 times the size I anticipated. I thought it was hawaiian shirt size, not this scale:
Not quite as subtle as I'd thought, but I'm still going to use it, and carefully place the bodice pieces on the yardage.
I found this blogger who's made a dress using a similarly scaled Alexander Henry pin up print.
Finding yardage (not a half yard piece) was trickier than I expected, but I found it at Never Enough Fabric in California. I got great customer service & communication from them too.
The only glitch in my plan - is entirely my error. Despite knowing that the States use imperial not metric measures I didn't realise the scale of the print because I saw the ruler on the Neverf Enough FAbricwebsite image (which isn't the photo above) and automatically translated it as centimetres not inches hence the print is 2.5 times the size I anticipated. I thought it was hawaiian shirt size, not this scale:
Not quite as subtle as I'd thought, but I'm still going to use it, and carefully place the bodice pieces on the yardage.
I found this blogger who's made a dress using a similarly scaled Alexander Henry pin up print.