I know, it sounds hideous. It could be awful. A recycled comforter cover... dress. But let me explain.
I'm in a big chambray, classic blue-and white phase inspired by the usual (J.Crew, Anthropologie, Zooey Deschanel...) and found this embroidered cotton twin-sized comforter cover that I got about 10 years ago when I had a twin-sized bed for a brief period. It was no longer in use.
I used a vintage pattern my mom made when she was my age, Vogue 8870 (more about this pattern later--I'm using it for some Anthrocopies soon!). Retro 70's!
I had sooo much fabric (still do), and wanted to use the embroidery of the comforter cover as a detail on the dress--insta-trim! I gave it a gathered skirt (I made it pretty long by modern standards to actually do a retro 50's/60's thing) and chose not to do the fastening down the front, or the cute collar/yoke/band thing on this one, so it's actually really different from this pattern... but you get the idea. It's interesting about using vintage patterns; there are some things they just don't do anymore. This pattern is a weird shape; rather than darts under and to the side of the bust, they just have one huge "dart" at the bottom that's actually a triangle shape cut out of the bodice piece, which ends up almost on the bias at the sides. And they use a facing rather than a lining, which won't work for all my upcoming uses of this pattern, but worked for the solid chambray of this dress.
So here it is!
I love the full skirt!
