My Flipped Rollerskate dress : )

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Let me start with a few warnings.  First, I am the absolute worst at spelling/punctuation lady.  I am just really not very good at it and spell checker rarely catches it all.  Second this is my very first blog post ever, and I am kina nervous about sounding silly.   Hopefully I do not sound like a true crazy as my blog name suggest : ).

Anyways I am here in the blogging world because of this fantastic sewalong by FrancesSuzanne.  Its all about changing up a pattern.  Each month they give you a pattern and we the contestants flip it.  Like the flip this house tv show.  I do say contestant because a monthly winner is chosen.  I will admit that this month is one of my favorite and most hopeful months because...Oliver & S.  I love, LOVE, LLOOVVEE Oliver & S patterns.  I want those very cute picnic shorts, and the birthday dress, and the fairytale dress, man I could go on & on. Anyways, here is my flip : )

I should have also warned you of my love for the smiley face : )

 

I tried to stay kinda with the classic look of Oliver & S patterns.  I guess a little too much because I later saw they have a dress or top with a similar front.  I had gotten the idea from a Japanese pattern book.

So what changes I have made?
I closed up the back, created the open front with gather, and added a whole bunch of bounce to the side seams like 4 inchs each side. 

Look at this little ladies legs!  Poor girl, we are in Minnesota.  Some say the mosquito is our state bird : )  It's the loon really : )   

And this little number has a secret : )...

 

Dots.

 

ok, she looks sad about the dots here but its just a front.  In my attempt to be artistic with this photo I asked her to not smile.  But she was really actually happy about those dots : )

 

I did take pictures of my process in this dress.  Look for them in my next post!

 

Thanks, Kimmie