Hello my fellow sewers! Here I am to show off my FIFTH Named Clothing Reeta dress!
As I said in my last posts about this dress, I never felt I loved it on me - until I took off the collar, then suddenly I could get on board with this - Reeta IV was a hit. And when I saw this Merchant and Mills linen check, I saw them together.
(Please do enjoy this dress/rug combo, not at all a happy accident but a carefully planned out photo concept.)
Like my other four (!) versions, I cut a straight size 38, with no adjustments apart from to leave off the collar - I added a facing instead, as I did with Reeta IV. But instead of the grown-on batwing sleeves, I reverted to the old sleeves and used the slash and spread method to widen them, a little at the bottom, but more at the top, to get a puff sleeve cap. And I put in some thin elastic round the arm bands to get more puff. REETA V - THE PUFFENING.
I haven't much of a stash these days, and find it easier now to browse fabric online, and identify possible patterns to match them to. I feel like it's stopping me being overwhelmed, though it also takes away the more spontaneous kind of sew.
I used Prym 15ml self-covered buttons for this, and really like how they look.
Without a belt - I'm thinking of making a self-fabric belt for this, as I like the uninterrupted check here, but don't like the floaty structure on me so much.
Yaaay! Let us all sing together:
Reeta I, you were no fun,
Reeta II, you I outgrew,
Reeta III, no good on me,
Reeta IV, I did adore,
Reeta V - now YOU'RE my jive!!
