Liberty #3

Guess who is 3 years old today?  

Ponchik! 

She got a doctor kit from my parents for her birthday and has been happily playing with it since we got home from church.  The other kids are basically being nuts today. 

In other news, I ended up making that 11th hour Dottie Angel dress yesterday because: Saturday.

After two freak days of warm weather, it turned quite chilly again overnight, and so it was back to tall boots, tights, and a heavy sweater.  

I used another colorway of Robert Kaufman's London Calling faux Liberty lawn and I lurve it.  If seersucker was my fabric for the summer of 2015, lawn is definitely my fabric for 2016.  It is fairly awesome.  I made my first London Calling lawn dress in April and have worn it quite a bit.  I made another one for my summer rotation from a 1930s style geometric print and am eager to wear it!  I also made a summer blouse from another of the floral lawn prints. 

I'm calling this Liberty #3 because I bought the navy colorway of this print to make up for the fall, and I had that one as #2 before I stumbled across this pink and blue print for spring and summer.  So it is out of sequence, but I really don't care.  I really love this dress.  

Nothing really to note about construction.  My sloper is in really good shape now, and I'm really loving the bust tucks on the front--they just give such a nice shape to the front of the garment.  My sewing machine was a little twitchy yesterday, so it was having a hard time making nice stitches in the lightweight fabric (I went with a 70/10 needle, but probably should have just gone with a stretch needle and been done with it!), but thankfully the print is busy enough that it doesn't show too much.  I made a tiny cutting mistake and cut the (directional) print the wrong way on the back side, but it is so busy that I think it doesn't really show that much.  The only flowers that it is even obvious on are the daisies, and even then I had to look twice to see which way was "up" (which is how I made the mistake in the first place!)  I made sure to cut it all properly on the front.

I'm not even going to apologize for my rumpled self in these photos--I couldn't take them until after church, which meant two hours in the car, plus 3 hours of toddler wrangling at church=wrinkled dress.  I do what I can.

It was a little tough to photograph it accurately--it is mostly a white background dress, which just doesn't have a ton of contrast to show up well against my Northern European skin.

But you get the general sense of it.

My plan was to wear this cardigan with sandals this morning, but I changed that plan right quick when I stuck my head out the door and about froze!  Still, it is nice to have a light-weight option for when the weather changes (again, as it will do at this time of year).  I do like both options with the dress.  I'm really glad I hung on to this cardigan after the winter.  I wore it as a pullover the last two winters, and was almost ready to let it go, but I thought I'd think about it for a while.  When I was casting around for something lightweight to go with this dress, I remembered it, and the color match for the dark blue is spot on.  

Anyway.  It will be nice to have one more piece to add to my summer pile, and also to have one more dress for the last few weeks of my spring rotation.

Details:

Liberty #3 dress: Robert Kaufman London Calling lawn (from Hawthorne Threads, although Fabric.com carries it too), Simplicity 1080, elastic, bias tape

Pink cardigan: LLBean via ebay

Teal blue cardigan: Axcess via ThredUp

Bird headscarf: flea market

Egg pendant: etsy

Tights: Foot traffic via Sock Dreams

Boots: Macy's

Earrings: Etsy