True Bias - Lodo Dress

Following with the theme of sewalongs - Kelli from True Bias recently started a mini-sewalong to her latest release, the Lodo Dress.
 

FYI - the glowing whiteness above is a British person coming out of winter after not seeing the sun for some time. Do not be alarmed. I am also misleadingly wearing sunglasses - it is neither hot nor sunny (yet we keep the faith). However, sunglasses means not wading through 3000 pictures for one where my eyes are not shut! I digress...

As soon as I saw this pattern hit social media it was a winner in my eyes! That is my idea of a perfect dress - clean, simple, comfortable but oooohhh such beautiful little details to make it remarkable. (Those woven facings!)


Within minutes I had the PDF downloaded and taped up - which FYI took all of 5 minutes as the pieces are already printed to fit each other ie no cutting involved!

The dress has a couple of options - a very classy looking midi which looks beautiful in black and also a shorter version without back walking slits. As much as I love the midi version and will no doubt make it - I'm on a stash busting mission and only had enough fabric for a shorter version! As fate would have it, I found a leftover piece of striped ponte (bought from Minerva Crafts) from my Sointu project which was the exact size of the pattern! (Seriously, when does that ever happen)

I made the dress in little 15 minute bursts over the course of a few days but you could whip this bad boy up in a couple of hours start to finish I reckon.

The dress does have a back seam however I omitted this in the interests of not making stripe-matching life more difficult than it needed to be.



Using the chart I cut a size 8 bust, 10 at the waist and 14 at the hip and suprisingly it worked without looking crazy curvy as sometimes happens. I think for next time I would go to a 10 at the bust just to give a little more comfort room and avoid slight pull lines at the arms which occurred.



Let's move on to THE best feature of this stretch dress - the non-stretch facings!! The arms and neckline are stable and don't need any give so Kelli as designed this lovely feature of a woven bindings that sit perfectly against the dress. What I adore about this is that you have a secret little design on the inside - a personal touch which anyone else will rarely see but you know is there :)

Again on a stash busting mission - I used some ladybird print cotton to make the facings (and turned the rest into bias binding). Pretty insides!!


Needless to say this pattern has also reached my top favourites list - now if only there was enough fabric for one in every colour.....


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6 comments:

  1. Cute! I love the stashbusting possibilities with those facings!

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    1. Absolutely - I feel a crazy bias tape making session coming on...

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  2. Such a fab dress! A great stash buster too.

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    1. Thanks! I know - doesn't that feel good when you find the right piece!

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  3. Thanks for sharing your insights on the Lodo dress. I just bought the pattern today and can't wait to make it up. I was thinking about making the short version but longer (to my knees) but not as long as the midi-length pattern. Wondering how you think the pattern will work out. Also, have you made the dress with a back seam in addition to this version without? Any difference in fit? Preference? Thanks .. I know your post was more than a year ago but if you see this note and can respond that would be great.

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    1. HI Sharon - sorry I just saw your comment! I think a knee length version would be great, I would do the same myself next time as I think its a great style for knee length. I have not made the pattern with the back seam as I just didn't see the point of it. I guess its good for fitting if you have sway back, curvature that needs taking in here and there but otherwise it works just fine without x

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