The Antrim Dress

I can't quite believe it's already the end of summer.  I still have summer sewing I want to do, but the temperature is definitely cooling down.  It's all ok though.  I have a brand new dress that's going to be a perfect one for fall.

I love everything about this dress, from the surplice "faux wrap" style bodice, to the gathered waist, to the flowy half circle skirt.  It even has pockets and I don't think I need to tell you how much I love a pocket!

So now that I've gushed about the dress design, I should probably give you some details.  The Antrim Dress is the latest release from Itch to Stitch* and the really exciting thing about it, to me, is that Kennis has increased her size range with this pattern!  The sizing for Antrim is  00-20 with A through DD cup sizes and size 22-40 with B through DD cup sizes.  I really appreciate the designers who are taking the time and effort to make their patterns more accessible.  In our tester group we all felt that the dress really suited everyone so well.  It's rare to find a pattern that actually does that (and quite frankly I'm always so skeptical when someone lays claim to a pattern looking good on all sorts of body types.  I normally will mentally roll my eyes and think, "uh, huh.  Sure it does..."  So I'm always really pleasantly surprised when it actually does work out that way!)

I feel that this pattern is fairly straight forward, sewing it didn't take a whole lot of time even with my "sew in small chunks of time" method that I use these days.  The only bit that I could see being a bit tricky would be the fact that you're working with a fairly stretchy knit and you'd want to be careful not to stretch out the neckline at all while sewing. (I inadvertently avoided all risk of that problem by adding length to my bodice and completely forgetting to add length to the neckline binding piece. Win win!  Ha ha!)  It is listed as an Intermediate pattern, but I would think that anyone with some experience in sewing with knits would be more than capable of sewing this dress pattern.

If you're wanting to get a copy of the Antrim Dress, it is discounted for the release week!