mustard dress

As I said yesterday, I realized that I had enough extra fabric for pillowcases when I was cutting out two dresses.  One is the same mustard linen as the main piece of the pillowcase and the other is brown like the edge.  

I worked on the dress after I made the pillowcases.  It is what my family calls my frontier dress but I have changed the bodice to be a bit more fitted and the top of the skirt to also be more fitted.  I feel like it is much more work appropriate that way.  

I have also never used metal buttons on one of my dresses before.  Here is a close up of them because in the picture of them on the dress they are hard to see.  I actually used the larger one at the top of the opening and the other four down the rest of the closure.

I really liked it when it was done, even if mustard may not be the best color for me.

Here is a picture of me making our bed up in the air.  Which means I can do about anything in this dress.  Make sure it is well pressed and add some pumps and it could be called dressy.  I know I had a hard time not wearing it two days in a row.  I see more linen in the future.  I may change the neck line a bit, but they will all be similar.