Leopard at the chance!

Viscose jersey in a crazy red leopard print, matched to Vogue 1552, a Sandra Betzina design.  I’m really falling for these drapey voluminous dresses lately, and I’d indulged in the pattern a few weeks ago…then MyFabrics sent me a voucher, so I splurged on 2.5m of this mad print.  The voucher basically offset the postage costs and a bit more, so the whole thing comes in at just £24.  I’m happy with that!

It’s a very easy pattern, I made it even easier by omitting the pointless back seam [no shaping, so why bother?]  Front, back, sleeves, collar.  Done.  I sewed it up in an hour.  The pattern image looks to be just below knee length, but I’ve kept it as per the pattern, no shortening [I usually have to lop off a couple of inches, but hey, why bother?]  I was going to go with the contrast collar and sleeves…but why skimp on the insanity of red leopard?

I think the collar is way smaller than it looks in the line drawing, but I’m fine with that.  I like the fit through the upper body, It feels quite sleek despite the volume of fabric.

That’s it, not much to say, other than I really can’t work out how to drape these side bits- the points are just like the ones on that Style Arc Toni that gave me so much grief.  Do I poke them in, pull them out, faff with them to make the drape look like it does on the pattern?  No clue.  Time will tell.

**edit:  I wore it to work today, and decided to just let the sides dangle.  they dangled well, and I felt like a very glamorous barmaid/balloon!