When I set out to learn dressmaking, I was all about the maxi dresses at the time. So I found this very easy pattern - McCall's 6559. I headed to Joanne & bought some stretchy navy blue fabric. I didn't know much about fabric, so I ended up with something that just didn't work well for this style... not that it mattered, because my execution would have destroyed the dress in any fabric:
No problem, I'll just get a heavier fabric, and maybe try a higher neckline. It's ok from afar, but far from ok:
This pattern has not been attempted again.
So scratch the maxi, and go for a sun dress. I can never find a good basic strappy sun dress, and I could wear them all the time in the summer. So I found another easy pattern: New Look 6459 and went for view E with no belt. My first attempt was horrible. I love the concept I had in mind of navy blue with pink straps and exposed pink zipper, but a. I thought using bias tape for straps was a good idea (not), and b. this was my first zipper. The last thing I should have done is tried to expose it :/.
I made myself a pink tail! And check out that sexy bra. Yeah this one went to the fail pile, but I tried again, in a cute cotton poplin. I did better on the zipper (still not very good), but I don't much like the way poplin works on this dress. I'd like something that drapes better around the waistline:
I'll probably give this pattern another go sometime.
So I tried another sun-dress style pattern New Look 6557, view C. This one has a cute waistband, which I think I was drawn to after the waistline issue with the last dress. Unfortunately this didn't work for me at all. I love the drape of this fabric (rayon challis), but it didn't work well at the waist. Maybe I needed a thicker interfacing at the wist or something. It just seemed so flimsy and unnecessary, and really just messed up the bust for me. Still working on those dang zippers. Also, I made it a little too short, so with that low neckline it's totally hoochie (ok, maybe if I was 18, but I'm very much not)... off to the fail pile:
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