Jodie dress to date

Here is a bit of work I got to do today on the Jodie dress. I love the print on this Fabricmart soft cotton twill so much. I can feel myself veering off at top speed these days to weird retro prints. 


You should see what I have planned for my fall shirts.


In the end I had to settle for a straight up dress zipper because the sleeping bag zipper, all I can get locally in long large teeth metal zippers, looked like well, a sleeping bag zipper. Thank you. thank you Margy for those links! Really glad to have them because I am definitely making this up again.


Now I realize it doesn't look like much on the hanger but it does look promising on.


A really interesting pattern that goes together very easily if you don't count for the part where big sections of the instructions need elaboration that isn't there. In fact there are a couple of places where you are instructed to see the diagram but there is no diagram to see, unless that was in a sheet that fell out of my pattern envelope.


I intend to give you detailed supplemental instructions once I am done, but I have to first finish this and make sure that what I think will work does in fact work.


I only added an extra 1 1/2" to the length. I didn't want to do more because of all the parts that need to fit together and I wanted to make up a trail version first to see how far I could push the length adding thing.


As it is this is about thigh length on me which for a woman of my experience in life is probably pushing it.


Not that I won't be wearing it.


To Winn Dixie in Florida sure.


To go out and move the sprinkler on the lawn, yes.


Over a bathing suit, to walk the dog early and late in the day, to tear around the house in sandals, definitely.


To a Nova Scotia supermarket or a faculty meeting.


Maybe not.


It is a great pattern though if I add about 3-4 inches next time and since the bottoms are faced with some large sections at the bottoms for the hem, I can see using a lining to do that and then actually having a dress that doesn't stick to tights without a slip.


The mind never stops.


But first I have to finish this one.