The dress with EVERYTHING.
My friend Ebony rocks. She really does.
I can't even tell you how essential she is to my life here. Not since art school have I had someone in my neck of the woods who was not only an amazing friend but who also makes s stuff all the time.
All. The. Time.
I can talk shop with and bounce inspiration back and forth with her. I've helped her stain her couch black so it'd be more goth. She's my year-round source of Halloween baubles.
She has her own impressive fabric haul. From time to time she's given me fabric she realizes will be put to use by me before she ever will use it.
Like..three meters of this.
Yeah.
Take that in.
Take it ALL in.
That's a lot of lot going on.
For a year she's been waiting to see what it will become. well, you can't get really complicated with a fabric like that so I turned to a simple pattern I'd modified until it fit. 2 or 3 years ago I made three dresses with variations based on
And this would be no exception!
SIMPLE CLEAN LINES!
But I wasn't going to do all the insane pattern matching of the Maiko/Geisha patterned dress just so I could have pockets.
I made EXTERNAL POCKETS with APPLIQUE!
I've had someone ask me if I made the dress and then ask me if I also made the appliques.
I want to live in their world because it's a world where ready-made appliques of octopuses drinking coffee and eating cheese MIGHT EXIST.
I've since slightly darted the neckline so it doesn't gape.
Lemme tell you, this is a dress that makes people smile.