Hey everybody! Happy Tuesday! I hope your week is off to a great start! I got hit with a cold over the weekend, but thank God I’m feeling a lot better now! I haven’t sewn in a couple days and honestly, I don’t miss it! I’m sure when I do get back inspired, I’ll sew 5-6 things non-stop and then hit a wall again! LOL!

Todays look is all about an easy pullover dress I made using McCalls 7800. This dress style is one of favorites. It’s super easy to make, and it can be made in many types of fabrics. I went with View B on the pattern but I used the bottom portion of View C sleeves.

For fabric, I wanted to dress it up a bit so I used a this Brocade from Measure Fabrics. This was my first time sewing with Brocade, and I’m really happy with the finished look.

For size, I cut the 16 around the best and did my normal merging to the 18 for the waist and 20 for the hips. I did have to go back in and take some fabric out because it was a lot of excess fabric around the waist and hip area for my liking.

Moving forward, if I have this problem, I think I’ll just add contour (fish eye) darts to the back of the dress. This will not only help eliminate some of the excess fabric, but also add a little shaping to the dress. I also took about 2.5” off of the hem.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. With our move only 3 weeks away now, things are starting to get a little busy here. I’ll continue to post twice a week, but I’ll also add a couple DIY OOTD looks in too. I noticed as I get dressed in the morning, I’m in mostly, if not all, me-made and I think it’d be cool to share those looks too.