No clicky picture here; I already bought this. Which I'm a bit worried about. Two scarf dresses in the space of a week? That seems suspiciously obsession-y.
Although this one I might actually make (well, considering I didn't buy the other pattern, it will be much easier to make this one). Both views. I love the kicky side pleats on the straight skirt, and the scarf-y version has me thinking maybe, just maybe, I will finally be able to use the car-print Liberty before I die. I swear, I must check that fabric on a monthly basis, on the off chance it's had a growth spurt in the fabric pile when I wasn't looking. I don't know why I don't just label my fabric with the yardage when I buy it; although, since I have sworn never to buy pieces under three yards ever again (with God as my witness, I will never buy blouse lengths again!) it's only these weird outliers from the four-yard average that have me measuring and re-measuring.
The car print isn't the only player in the "Did it Grow?" game. There's a piece of cherry-print rayon that likes to re-wrinkle itself when I'm not looking, so it has to be pressed before it gets measured and comes up short. There's ONE YARD of a gorgeous Matisse-print silk (and by Matisse-print, I mean it has figures from his "Jazz" paper cut series on it, in those brilliant colors) that I must have laid out a dozen blouse patterns on and never made a single cut into. (Maybe someday I'll have a brain injury that changes my entire personality and turn into someone who wears halter tops. Who knows?) There's a pile of shantung remnants in jewel colors that someday will have to be the world's least practical crazy quilt, or a jester outfit, because there's not a garment's worth of any single one of them. (Hmmm. Duro? In shantung? For winter?) Plus many other bits and bobs too pretty to throw away, too small to use, & that I'm too lazy to cut quilt blocks from … it's a puzzlement.
A Dress A Day 
Car print! I, er, bought a wonderful car print in a soft cotton a couple of weeks ago, which I plan to make the Duro/McCall dress with. Its, uh, not so different from the twill one you linked to today. Mine is of bright, warm childrens colours. Id been thinking how fun it would be, when I finally make up my dress, to send you a photo of what the Duro dress would look like in a rainbow car print!
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I used to own this pattern. I wonder if I still do, or if it’s one I sold off. Hm. Maybe you’ve got one of my old patterns! =D–Lydia
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What about using up those nice fabrics pieced into a dress like the one you feature? a scarf print would *probably* look great as the yoke/sleeve/scarf of the full dress, with a solid to make up the rest of the dress. It would show off the fabulousness of that fabric better than a halter, wouldn’t it?
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Children’s prints = Duro Dress. Just maybe. I have yardage of brown, Warner Bros Tazmanian Dust Devil print that might be quite fun as the basis of the Duro. Perhaps a plaid or other geometric for the bands.Sometimes, fabric is so beautiful and the yardage is too small, that cutting it up just seems wrong. You might consider framing the Matisse-print. I have a piece of painted fabric that the late artist Ron Walotsky gave me years ago. I was going to make a purce out of it, but now I think I will frame it for display along side the two small paintings he also gave me.
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Two built-in-scarf patterns are not an obsession.Two hundred built-in-scarf patterns are an obsession.Now if someone can just make me think I can’t make Issey Miyake patterns (—the horror—) I will think myself cured.LOVE your writings. LOVE your dresses.
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I like this pattern. I luv the pleats they are so cute.
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give your pretty bits to a quilting club or to your local community education director. i unloaded all my bits of fabric on a local quilting shop that was doing discount classes for limited income families. the owner almost cried when i came in with two large garbage bags full of *nice* fabric scraps that i just couldn’t use and was tired of looking at. so i know someone somewhere is going to have a fabulous quilt out of my well loved scraps 🙂
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I have to say, that sonic dress is pretty neat. I wonder if there’s a way that they could actually get it to play a mix of music. Like, you order the tape in such a way that you could create your own mix of a song depending on what the shape of your body is or something like that. A wonderful forray into the world of blending music and sculpture. I have to say, I’m a dude, and I’d wear it just to play with it.
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its great to see there is girlys out there still interested in the wonders of dresses(especially ones that can create music) i love every one i have seen on here,its brilliant-cheers!
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Can anyone tell me this pattern’s number and manufacturer? I’d like to look for it/set an Ebay search for it/pine for it. Thanks!
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Arrgh, I don’t remember it. You might want to see if it’s in the “scarf” category on the Vintage Pattern Wiki: http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Scarves
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