The Gather One-Piece is the second dress I've made from Yoshiko
Tsukiori's Easy Cute Straight Stitch Sewing book. It's a very simple,
straightforward make - in fact you probably don't really even need to draft a paper pattern (though I cautiously did) and could instead just mark the
measurements out onto a piece of fabric. The dress is basically three
rectangles of material, one for the body and sleeves which is folded
over with a hole cut into it for your head, and two more rectangles
to form the front and back.
I made a neck facing instead of using a bias trim and added a
practical front pocket but apart from that the design is just as
it says in the book (or as I think it says - the written instructions
are in Japanese). It seemed apt to use these two
Japanese indigo cotton fabrics, one with a scalloped waves design and the
other has a star grid pattern, both from The Eternal Maker in
Chichester.
I'm really happy with how it turned out - another success from this book! It's made me less wary of buying other untranslated Japanese sewing books in the future, but
there are several more garments I'm itching to make from this one
first...
