First Dress of the Year Made By Me: Bikini Blast

I finally got around to making another dress!

This is the first dress I've made this year despite that this year is nearly 3/4ths of the way over. It's been a rough year and rather than staying home to work on projects I've kind of just been keeping myself busy being out and about. I still miss my Merk dearly. She was my constant companion at home and especially while at home working on projects just as this one. I happened on some old blog photos of crafting projects and realized she would be by my side and in nearly all the pics I would take while crafting. I will miss her forever until hopefully one day when I see her again.

Anyhow, this is my first dress of the year made by me. I made this over the long labor day weekend between going to the cat cafe and hanging out with my mom on Labor day. I actually had the fabric prewashed and the pieces cut out by the end of year last year, it has just taken me this long to finally get around to sewing everything together.

For this dress I used Butterick pattern 5209 and chose a fun rayon novelty bikini print fabric I found on the fashion fabrics club website. I do believe this is the best dress I've made since starting this blog :) I am quite happy with the way it's turned out.

Butterick 5209- Front View

Butterick 5209- Front View

Butterick 5209- Side View

Butterick 5209- Back View

Butterick 5209 and Close Up of fabric