~wiws~ Liberty #2

I fell in love with this fabric the minute I saw it in the spring.  It was sold out at my usual fabric haunt, so I ended up buying it elsewhere.  I decided to save it for the fall, as the palette seemed to work well with my fall rotation.  I made the Liberty #3 dress for the spring instead--it is a different colorway of this print.

After making several lawn dresses for my spring and summer rotations, I had a fair idea of what I wanted to tweak for this iteration.  Mostly, I wanted sturdier pockets.  Lawn is a fairly thin fabric, and I noticed that my pockets on the earlier dresses were not able to stand up to the weight of my car keys.  We use a Club on our cars for security, and the key for that is rather robust.  

So I decided to make these pockets with double fabric to make them hardier, and I think it worked well!  I just cut the fabric double and treated it as one layer when sewing.  I probably could have got away with a single layer on the facing, but at that point, I was all in, so I just kept the facing double as well.  

Oddly, the thread color that ended up looking best with this fabric was a dark brown.  The navy I expected to use just didn't look right.  

I made sure to include a couple of lawn dresses for my fall rotation because I know there are always a few weeks in September that are nasty hot.  It has been in the upper 90s with high humidity this past week, so I think it was a good call.  I wore one of my Cotton + Steel dresses on Friday and felt like I was going to suffocate when I went to get the kids from school in the afternoon.  The public and archdiocesan schools all let out at noon on Friday because of the heat.  

It does seem like this week will be better--highs are expected in the low 80s, with overnight lows in the 60s, so perhaps the worst is over.  I've been re-watching Outlander and am craving wools and layers.