Pattern Review - Vogue 1189
Pattern Review - Vogue 1189 Yay! I have finally finished this dress. After much blood sweat and tears over the plait it finally all came together. If anyone has read these reviews, you will know that doing the plait is a mission, and extremely time consuming. However, this dress has hardly any reviews on Pattern Review, which I am really surprised about - as soon as this pattern came out a couple of years ago I picked it up asap and knew instantly that I wanted to make it with black jersey. I picked up this black jersey from Simply Fabrics for £2/metre. It has a lovely sheen on the right side, and is really easy to work with. Sorry - Southbank Centre doesn't have the best light I love the pockets on this dress! This is the first time I have made pockets where it is topstitched to the skirt front. I think that it works really well. It also makes the dress amazingly comfortable. The only things that I changed were to omit the topstitching on the elastic on the c...