Last of the Tablecloths
I’ve had so much fun this summer upcycling the two tablecloths I was given, and this dress was most likely my last project with them (I do have some lace pieces I saved for the scraps, so I might be able to do something with those yet…). I wanted to do a dress yet, and I had a pretty good sized piece of a circular tablecloth to work with, so I started by looking through my patterns. Burda 6121 and McCalls 7085 seemed like good possibilities (and I had made both before with good results), as I wanted a fairly simple cut to show off the design of the fabric. I then looked at pictures on social media and on clothing company websites for inspiration. I came across several ideas I liked, and Sezane’s Victoire Dress seemed like a good fit, and was pretty close to Burda 6121. The hardest part was centering the placement. I have found that each time working with these tablecloths - you kind of get one shot for placing the pattern, and it can look terrible if it’s not ri...
