A moment of pure craftiness hit me a few months back. I've had the pattern for a cowboy shirt dress for a while. I got it after I missed this lovely cowboy shirt dress on ebay.
Anyway, after my second attempt at making a cowboy shirt for my beau failed, (once again too small!) I decided it was time to make something for myself.
I went over to Mermaid Fabrics in Hackney Central. They have loads of stuff in there. Generally, for stuff with really good patterns I go over to Rolls and Rems in Holloway but, sometime you'll find something really super cute in Mermaid. I got a pinky-orange faux crepe type material and decided that I would go through my trunk of fabric at home to look for something for the yoke. At home after some consultation I decided to use up some of my ace Alexander Henry black tattoo fabric. (I just love that stuff.)
There where also a few options for the piping but, in the end I went with red which worked out well. The dress, overall was pretty easy though I did get a little confused when it came to the sleeves. Once in a while directions fail to make any sense to me. Even with diagrams!
Funny enough the most difficult thing about this dress was finding colored pearl snaps! I sent away for some from a company here in the UK called Millcroft Textiles. On their website they looked like normal pearl snaps but when they arrived they were those funny plastic cover metal things, like this:
Anyway, after my second attempt at making a cowboy shirt for my beau failed, (once again too small!) I decided it was time to make something for myself.I went over to Mermaid Fabrics in Hackney Central. They have loads of stuff in there. Generally, for stuff with really good patterns I go over to Rolls and Rems in Holloway but, sometime you'll find something really super cute in Mermaid. I got a pinky-orange faux crepe type material and decided that I would go through my trunk of fabric at home to look for something for the yoke. At home after some consultation I decided to use up some of my ace Alexander Henry black tattoo fabric. (I just love that stuff.)
There where also a few options for the piping but, in the end I went with red which worked out well. The dress, overall was pretty easy though I did get a little confused when it came to the sleeves. Once in a while directions fail to make any sense to me. Even with diagrams!
Funny enough the most difficult thing about this dress was finding colored pearl snaps! I sent away for some from a company here in the UK called Millcroft Textiles. On their website they looked like normal pearl snaps but when they arrived they were those funny plastic cover metal things, like this:
Eek! The people at Millcroft kindly took them back and refunded my money but, then I still had to find the snaps. After a bit of looking around I found the Bee Lee Company in Texas. They have a very wide assortment of stuff, however I didn't manage to order anything from them because they don't have a online catalogue. I like shopping online. (I will in the future get some of those nice diamond snaps from Bee Lee.) Instead, I went to Wendy at The Snap Store. http://thesnapstore.com/catalog/index.php. I got some pink, red and black snaps. I thought I use the pink ones initially but, when they came it was pretty apparent they wouldn't quite go. So I went with the red ones. They ended up looking amazing.
I wore the dress out to DJ, check it out:
The dress: 
Foxy.
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