Tessuti's Eva Dress

When Tessuti released their Eva Dress Pattern, I wasn't sure I would make it. I don't know what it was, but I didn't feel immediately drawn to it. And then something happened. It started to call to me… 'make me Rachel, please, you'll love me'. My dreams were full of Evas, I kept seeing them out of the corner of my eye. Instead of seeing words about sexual violence and online communication technologies on the pages of journal articles I started seeing 'Eva, Eva, Eva'.

I can't ignore the call of a good pattern, so I bought this fabric to make one. I made it up at Sewjourn (pictures on that one to come), but before going to Sewjourn, Mum took me on my fabric shopping spree, and I saw an amazing textured cotton-nylon mix at Tessuti that had Eva written all over it. I had to have it. I made this up just before Christmas one morning when Michael took Little M to see his best mate.

This fabric is so hard to photograph! I made the size small, and used larger seam allowances (1.5cm instead of 1.25cm), so it is somewhere between the small and extra-small.

It sewed up beautifully. I must admit that I didn't use the instructions at all. Leith had made this up at Sewjourn before I did, so I learnt from the process by which she made hers. I love the bound hem - this gives an incredibly neat finish, but gosh you need a lot of bias binding!

Here is a close-up shot of the texture of the fabric.

I wore this yesterday to go on a movie date with Michael. We both love a bit of slapstick-potty humour so we saw Anchorman 2. Not as good as the first one, but still quite hilarious. This Eva was a perfect movie date dress - comfy yet stylish. I'm saving my Aquamarine Ripple version to wear to a very special day-trip to Adelaide with Anna next thursday - lots of fun photos for that to come!

P.S. - thank you to everyone who gave suggestions regarding Little M's sunscreen allergy. We have ordered some special cream from David Hosking's Pharmacy - he makes his own creams, of which we used his nappy rash cream (a pure miracle). I am going to try and get the Hamilton's sunscreen as yesterday she had some Banana Boat on and her poor little face flared. She has started scratching at it and I am worried it will become infected so hopefully the David Hosking cream will arrive quickly. xx