I haven't been doing a whole heap of sewing in the last few weeks. I made a vintage peasant top and cut out a few things. I decided I needed a nice fast project for a work pinafore. Come on down the Alice by Tessuti. This is my second dress in the Alice pattern and I've done 3 tops. I wanted something quick and easy and that patterns is great for such a project.
The fabric which is 100% synthetic has the look of a wool blend. I'm quite optimistic it might not be a crusher. I have way too many of those in my work dresses repertoire. Even fabrics I'm not expecting to crush do. I even took it old school and bought some fabric starch spray. That didn't seem to work on the fabric I needed to de-crease. It just left a nice film of starch on my iron which flaked off on the next thing I ironed.
Back to Alice. This is a very simple make and a versatile colour for work. It is actually a blue background but looks grey in most lights. As I don't have an overlocker I had to zig zag my seems twice because this fabric freys like the Dickens.
I used some buttons for a bit of embellishment.
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