Adriana and the Ophidia

Welcome back all - I've got another 'new to me' pattern today in the form of the Adriana Dress by The Patterns Room.

This is a gorgeous little pattern than seems not to have much of an online presence for some reason - but it's perfect for warm weather and holidays! It's also really simply to make so a great beginner project or a palette cleanser if you are not after anything too challenging. 

 

 The dress is a halterneck style with the neckties threading through the front and back bodice pieces and tied at the back. The ties are stitched onto the front bodice when you have your preferred amount of gather although I imagine this is entirely optional. I didn't stitch the back ones down. There is an encased elastic waist and a lovely full skirt with pockets.

I made a size 18-20 from the charts and made no alterations to this. It's a wafty dress so very forgiving.  

For my main dress I used some snake print EcoVero viscose from Sew Me Sunshine and the quality is glorious. It is 130gsm so is fluid and cool but not thin and annoying. 

 I adore the colours in this dress and it was perfect for floating about a very hot Mdina on holiday recently. The print also felt in keeping with the medieval surroundings!

For my toile of this dress (I didn't want to cut into the snakes until I knew I'd like the style) I used some Nerida Hansen viscose from Beyond the Pink Door.  This print is called 'Lion and Coyote' and is very summer bright and cheery. 

 There's a little key hole detail at the back of the dress which is very pretty and simply made by the centre back seam opening. 

There wasn't enough for the full length so a shorter one had to do! (I had 2m) Turns out that was also perfect for wandering about on hot streets. Little action shot to prove the case:

The sizing I found to be spot on, you can adjust the waist elastic as much as you like to be comfortable. I expected to have to move the waist seam but did not have to as that also moves up to your natural waist to create a blouse effect on top.

I can see this being a summer saviour if we get hot hot heat again - a classic thrown on and go hero. It's also good to know that it's possible to make a shorter one in 2m of fabric, which I seem to have an excess of. Definitely something that could be whipped up in a hurry aswell!

Do give this little pattern a go if you are after some easy breezy summer sewing.  

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