Artbella: The Mara Dress.....

I just had to sew the The Mara blouse/dress

As I am browsing fabrics in JoAnns for a diaper bag that I am going to sew I see this beautiful aubergine/eggplant/purple......whatever your preference and I am thinking it might be nice for a dress for Bella ..... 4 bolts of orange and purple fabric later and I decide I am going to sew the Mara for Bella as a dress and embroidery on the yoke( when I browsed through the Compagnie M Patterns for the Contest I had my eye on the Mara for embroidery but I ended up sewing the Louisa first here.) Sucker that I am for a good contest I bought the fabric and the pattern. The embroidery I did Thursday while sitting at the Allergist after my immunotherapy shot and the dress I was able to sew yesterday with the kids sitting next to me making crafts.) I am cutting it close because the contest closes tomorrow but I am glad I made it. It turned out very much to my liking - I just love the colors together. I love bold. The weather has been very yucky with the rain -which I am thankful for because we really need it - but not very favorable for pictures outside so we ended up cleaning the playroom for some pictures.

Details:

I drew some flowers on the yoke and hand embroidered them before assembly. I added an orange frill that was randomly folded and sewed onto the yoke. The buttons is fabric that I got for the diaper bag and was perfect to cover the buttons with. I made two wide pleats instead of 6 and it was folded inwards and top stitched with orange thread. I made the butterfly sleeve(without the butterfly:)) so it looks like a cap sleeve. The dress is big enough that Bella can wear it with a long sleeve shirt now and without when its SuMMERTiME!