Craft A Little

A few years ago my mom gave me a bunch of O+S patterns for Christmas.  One of those patterns was the Playdate Dress.  My mom says it was on my list, but I am don’t remember asking for it.  It was never one of my favorites. I haven’t gone back to look at the email that I sent to see who is right.  Anyway, since I have had the pattern for a couple of years now I have been looking for the right fabric to make a playdate dress. But I never could quite figure out what I would like. I would see ones in the flickr group that I liked, but never felt that I found the right fabric that really spoke to me. And then I would even show the ones that I liked to my husband and he would never have anything positive to say. He does not like this pattern. Anyway, there was one that I saw that Liesl made that did speak to me. So this spring, when I saw the Lisette chambray at Joann’s, I decided that this was the time to give it a try.

And I don’t love it. I shortened it a bit, but left in the pockets. I also did the lining, hem facing, and pockets in the pink that you can see on the top. I needed it to be wearable by Little Helper’s standards.  :) I did move the pockets up a bit so that I could shorten it to be more of a tunic length and not have the pockets hang out. I also shortened the sleeves. Little Helper didn’t like the longer sleeves and I am certain that summer is going to start here one day soon and then 3/4 sleeves will be too long.  I didn’t shorten them carefully though and I think that they are slightly different lengths.

So…I don’t think that am going to make this pattern again. Actually, I am sure that I won’t. So I was thinking that maybe someone else out there felt the same way about a pattern that they had and might be willing to trade. My question to all of you blog readers out there…I have a Playdate dress in the smaller pattern range that I would like to trade. Anyone interested? I am open to pretty much any O+S pattern that I don’t have. But I would also love to get my hands on a Citronille  patterns (wishful thinking here that someone would have one to trade? ).  If you have something else that you would like to propose (Modkid, Amy Butler, heck- I even would be interested in some of Heather Bailey’s pin cushion patterns). So- I am totally serious here- if you have a pattern that you are done with and want this one- please let me know! You can either email me (rebeccajweber@gmail.com) or you can leave a comment.

Edited:  And I just came across this one, so apparently I copied her too.  :)