Summer dresses 2018 – New Look 6206

I had found a lovely cheap fabric browsing in Abakhan (while daughter trampolining probably – or that’s my excuse), so had to find something to make with it!! I chose this New Look Project Runway pattern, with different variants.

There are some fiddly bits to this one, particularly where the front bits meet. This was my first version – the long one with the cross-over front.

One thing that bugged me wearing it though was the knot on the back of my neck. So when I tried the second version – shorter and not crossing over – I thought I would just do it to pull over my head.

However, logic failed me at some point when doing this, and how to turn the lined front pieces the right way round and join them together at the back had me frustrated for a while. I can’t think why, but I remember it not going 100% according to plan.

For some reason I can’t find pictures of me wearing either of these, or actually in progress of making them. When I get up to date with current projects I promise to include more information on what was going wrong or right!