My Date Night Dress

I made a dress to wear on a date night with my husband.  We were celebrating our 14th wedding anniversary.  We had a great night.  First, we dropped the kids off at a local kids night out event.  Then, we went out to a steakhouse for dinner and enjoyed a leisurely meal without worrying that the baby might melt down at any moment ;)  After that, we had massages and strolled around the bookstore for coffee and magazines.  It was a lovely evening and I'm so glad we made the time for it.

Here's what I wore, remember, I'm in Texas so it's a balmy 90 degrees in the evenings here right now ;)





It's This pattern.  I was super impressed with Lekala.  I got my extremely reasonably priced patterns in no time.  When I had an issue downloading the sewing instructions, I received a speedy response and copies of the instructions were emailed to me.  I have a 34H bust so dresses involve crazy amounts of alterations to commercial patterns.  With Lekala, I just included the measurements they asked for and the dress fit perfectly with no alterations :)

Thanks for reading :)

Laura

A New, to me, Dress

I am lusting after shirtdresses right now. There is just something super cute and practical about a little summer dress I can throw on over my volleyball shorts and feel girly, but covered, in. I am not, however, spending much on clothes right now. I've had back pain and discomfort for years from my breasts being oversized for my frame, and I am hopeful that I will have a reduction in 2012, which will make me need new clothes then.

So, when I saw a cute shirtdress for $4.99 at Savers I bought it. Sure, it was a small, and I'm not a small in dresses, but it was a good deal, the two year old was about to have a conniption and I needed to roll out of there. So, I added a 3" racing stripe from some old dress fabric to the sides and....voila








No time to fix my hair for the pics, but the dress is still cute ;)

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