Full Bloom Pullover Shift Dress

I’ve decided fabric is to be cut and sewn, not just coveted. So here’s another one of my jewel Vlisco fabrics. A dress shamelessly copied from Raliat: same fabric, same pattern (McCall’s 6465), different colorway, and I used a solid coordinating fabric in the back. This is a really easy pattern, since it’s a pullover dress.

The only difficulty, and I repeatedly have it with wax fabrics, is the easing in of the sleeves. The only things that seem to help so far is using the seam ripper, patience and cursing… If you have any practical tip on how to make easing in wax fabric more easily, please share.

The only modifications I did are adding:

• a lining, using the Easy Guide to Sewing Linings: Sewing Companion Library, so I could wear it with thighs in fall,
• and pockets. Because pockets.

This is a great pattern to let the fabric “talk”. I wore it to a bbq party and someone asked me if I would take orders (“no”) and by the way someone else was looking at me, I could tell she was taking mental notes for her next order to her tailor. I take it as a compliment and I hope Raliat takes the fact that I almost exactly copied her as a compliment as well 🙂