sewalong for Flip this Pattern - Roller skate dress

 

 

 

 

 

Over at Frances Suzanne - sewing with sisters they are doing this wonderful series called

Flip this Pattern. Every month for the next few months they have chosen a Pattern for each month to flip. Read more about it HERE

 

 

If you want to see how I did the flip go to the Picture tutorial by clicking HERE

For the month of July they have chosen Oliver + S - Roller skate dress + Tunic sewing pattern

which has so many possibilities. I immediately had a color block combination with some pockets for Isabella in mind.

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this is my drawing when ideas came tumbling around

then I found my fabric

Construction followed soon - I was too excited on getting started and might have let the kids run around in their jammies most of Monday - oops. That said it is summer break so a few hours on the wii u playing Smurfs dance Party cannot hurt , now can it?

The collar I made some hand embroidering with navy blue, white and orange (different thickness) for a textured effect.

I did this on my navy blue fabric tracing the pattern and then the hand stitching before cutting out my pattern.

 

I quickly made Isabella some cute hair accessories to go with the outfit.

 

 

Look how cute she is on her skates destroying my garden.

 

 I have lots of pictures with assembly so hopefully a more detailed post on that later.

I loved how the color blocking on the skirt part turned out. I added pockets as well and she is in heaven.

 

 

 

Thank you for looking and make sure to go check out all the other sew along pictures over at Frances Suzanne -July Flip this pattern sew along