This charming little sundress is made using the pattern "I am Sassy Sundress" from the book "I am Cute Dresses" by Sato Watanabe. See my book review here. This dress was fairly easy to make (about an intermediate level).The fabric is a lightweight cotton in dark gray with a diagonal stripe. On one side of the fabric the diagonal is dark and the other side it's white. I decided that the darker stripe side would be the "right side".
If you are going to make this dress and you have a bust larger than 36 inches, you should carefully check the measurements and adjust as needed. I added width to the bodice but did not add any to the neck binding and the dress is too tight across the upper bust. Adding length to the straps did not help and I still need to make an alteration to the dress before I will be really comfortable while wearing it.The neck binding seems to be placed right but I think the problem is that the arm hole is very shallow. A deeper angle at the armpit would probably make it more comfortable.
Don't forget, if you make the bodice bigger, you'll also need to make the waist casing bigger. I also made a pretty long waist tie.
The skirt is just a big rectangle with the bodice inserted in the middle. I love the way it hangs in a handkerchief hem style.
Overall, it's a really cool dress and I could see making it again once I get the sizing figured out. It's a great dress for summer weather, nice and breezy.
Recipe courtesy The Neelys
If you download the psd file to use in photoshop you'll find that all the separate layers have been grouped into folders in the layers palette. When you open the file you'll see a folder for 2011, 2012 and 2013, with a white background layer with fold lines, and a transparent layer. You can choose whether or not you want to print out the fold lines on your completed calendar or whether you just want a plain background.
If you open the 2011 folder you'll see a text layer for the date of the year (2011), and twelve folders (one for each month), with a thirteenth folder for the day headings (M, T, W, T, F, S). When you open one of the month folders you'll see layers for the name of the month (text layer) and then layers for each week (text layers) with the dates on them.
The calendar has space at the bottom for your business or any other text you wish to include in your calendar. Because the layers are transparent, you can put images on your calendar - one large image that stretches across all three years, or three individual images (one for each year) under the text. However you want to set it up.
Use double-sided tape along the larger folding edge (the wider gray area). Fold the calendar so the images and text are facing outwards. Pull the facing off the two sided tape, fold under the small gray edge and stick it to the tape on the wider edge. The result is a triangular stand-up calendar. I designed this to fit ordinary card stock or photo paper (8.5 X 11), but if you have access to larger pager (8.5 X 14) you can increase the width of the template in photoshop, giving you a wider text area for each year.
