My New Favourite Summer Dress!

Meet my new favourite summer dress – the Mississippi Avenue dress by SewHouse7 (aka Simplicity 8231)

This is such a great pattern – it’s a pull-on dress which is relatively quick and easy to sew and features some great design details, including sweet shoulder ties and a central front panel which allows an elastic casing to fit through the sides and back only, leaving the front of the dress comfortably fee. It is a very rare day indeed when I get to sew a garment where I need to make little to no fit adjustments, but apart from rotating the shoulder forward 0.5″ (which I do with everything!) no other fit alterations were needed!

The neck and armholes are finished with bias binding – the instructions are great but I do have thoughts on that neckline which I go into in more detail over on my blog www.sewsarahsmith.com

Sarah x