Return to the Blog - Tilly and the Buttons, Martha Dress Hack
Wow! It has been almost a year since my last post, so long in fact that my hair is much longer now! I have definitely still been making (a lot!) especially with being at home 24/7! Although I feel now, with us all being kept away from each other it would be a good time to come back to the blog and share my creations with the wonderful sewing community. For my return to the blog I wanted to make something showstopping, a project I could take my time over and put a lot of thought into. I had seen a ph oto of this Orla Kiely dress online and, as many of us sewists often do, I thought - ‘I can make that!’. It’s pretty similar to the Tilly and the Buttons Martha Dress, which I have already made before – see here . Orla Kiely Dress I saw online I just needed to hack the sleeves so they would be straight rather than flared and add a flounce to the bottom. I had already created a hack to add a frill to the princess seam and I bought some velvet ribbon to topstitch d