I am finally making progress on Butterick 6020. I’ve choose to use a yellow pinstripe Linen fabric that I picked up in Hickeys in Grafton Street, Dublin. I bought it when I was visiting my parents ages ago. Unfortunately, Hickeys no longer exists and Dublin is down to two remaining fabric stores. Grim Indeed.

It’s always a challenge to cut and make my own clothes when I spend most of my professional hours sewing for film. This dress was actually cut on a stormy night in a very lovely country house hotel on location. The room was large and quite posh. I had some spare time on cut this one out on the bureau. I have to make the best of it. Otherwise I’d never get through my stash. The current strategy is a minimum of 4 personal seams a day to keep it moving. The personal project list is 25 units at the moment… not including my trousseau for Venetian Carnivale.

Aligning the stripes is very important. It’s what makes for lovely intersecting chevrons on the pockets. The pockets are exceptionally pleasing on this design. I definitely want to draft an apron with B6020’s pockets.