Occasional Dress

I'm wearing a curtain to a wedding this year.

Window wear is the hottest new thing, didn't you hear? I like to make something from nothing and was recently given a load of old fabrics for free. Result! After pottering round the Internet, I stumbled upon this gorgeous free pattern for a 'coffee date dress' at Burdastyle. Lovely examples of what other people had done with the same pattern, check it out.
It's free to download and prints out on a million A4 pages, which you then link up and use as a normal dress pattern. Such a great idea and so accessible!

 I've altered the pattern somewhat to make it fit my style a bit more as I wasn't too keen on the ruffle. Using a contrasting cream cotton poplin for the bodice, I mixed a lace trim with the peach coloured curtain and added a ribbon to soften it up a little. The fabric is quite heavy and stiff therefore holds it's skirt shape nicely.

  And voila!

Dress it up with some pearl earrings and a glass of pink bubbly and I'm good to go!