Prairie dress of dreams

Reviewed by Claire Hewitt on 10th September, 2021

As soon as I saw this dress I knew I wanted to make it. I had some green floral fabric already in my stash and I think it suits the pattern. I made a toile and found that with my short waist and narrow back I needed to take some fabric out of the centre back, shorten the waist to bring it up to fit my waist and also extended the elasticated waist portions at the side to bring it in more.

I found the pleats the most challenging part to fit, I hand tacked them in place which helped, eventually I decided to stitch them in place at the shoulder seams, to ‘anchor’ them in place.