Needs a little work for shaping

This is the Slip Dress by The Makers Atelier.

I’ve been looking for a slip over dress (in other words with no closures) to make up in linen to mirror the linen ones I used to buy from Next in years gone by for my holiday.

I wanted a dress breezy enough to hang away from the body but still with the suggestion of some shape.

I had some white linen I wanted to use and I knew that it could look like a shapeless night dress if I was not careful.

So, I added a seam to the centre of both front and back bodice pieces, but I didn’t stop there, adding seams to the middle of the front and back skirt too.

In the spur of the moment, I also mirrored the v neck at the front onto the rear bodice piece.

I made quite a few adjustments to the pattern including moving the under bust darts, adding slim waist darts to the back, a forward shoulder adjustment and then 6 inches off the bottom.

There’s more details including how I added the embroidery on my blog post. Click here 

I’m thrilled with the final dress, it just took me a little patience to get there.