I saw a really cute dress in Ottobre and decided to make it, but I didn’t want to use a nice fabric since I wanted to test it out first. It’s made with a really cute babycord and binded with babycord of a different print.

This is what it’s supposed to look like. It’s from the Ottobre magazine 4/2007 issue.

I came across some cute vintage corduroy in eBay and thought that it looked cute. It was cheap and no one seemed to want it. I wonder why… What was I thinking? It ended up sitting there and I couldn’t find anything I could make with this. Ideally the garment should be a simple design since the print is so busy and colorful. Then I decided to use this to test out the Ottobre pinafore dress.

Here’s my dizzy sailor girl version. I get dizzy just looking at it:

I couldn’t find anything to coordinate with this print so I ended up using the same fabric to do the binding for the neck and armholes. In addition, this is a medium weight corduroy, not a fine babycord, hence it’s permanently flaring out and does not fall smoothly. I will try to get a picture with R in it.

However, this was a good practice since it was the first time I put in an invisible zipper and it came out really nice too.

I definitely chose the wrong fabric for the project. A busy print is better for a simpler design. However it did a very good job hiding my mistakes…