Finally . . . a shirtdress

I have been meaning to make a shirt dress for a very long time.  Well over a year, in fact.  I have several cuts of cotton fabric that call out to become shirt dresses and this fabric was one of them.  I love this fabric, a quilting cotton, because from a distance it looks like an abstract polka dot print, but up close you find that it is really . . .

bicycles!  Check out the buttons–vintage from the 60’s.   I am not a bike person myself (at the moment, at least) being more of a walker/hiker type person, but I adore this print.  I love the retro/vintage-y pattern and I really like that most people will look at my dress and just see dots and lines.  It’s almost like having a secret in plain view.  The pattern is from the June (08) issue of Burda World of Fashion (my favorite issue so far this year) and is a dress version of the flower power blouse that I posted about recently. 

I’m going to have to make more shirt dresses, I’ve found that it is a flattering style for me.  But oh, sewing on the buttons . . .