We can't stop here, this is bat country

Hello readers and welcome back to another blog post about my completed sewing projects! This week I will be talking about my third completed Halloween themed dress - the bat dress!

The fabric is from Joanns and I found it in my local store about three weeks ago. The fabric is a lightweight cotton fabric and it's one of my favorite bat fabrics I’ve seen this year. When I saw it in the store, I had to have it all. I bought the whole bolt, which consisted of 4.25 yards of fabric. Originally, I wanted to make a circle skirt dress but I decided against it because of how the bats ran down along the fabric. I followed my same process for preparing the fabric: washing, drying and ironing.

I choose to sew my tried and true dress pattern, the combination of a self drafted skirt pattern and Butterick b5748 bodice pattern. I cut out and sew together the dress in a week. The construction was an easy task, I was able to complete each section carefully. The only problem I had was creating the gathers in the skirt pieces. This process had to be done over again because of the thread I selected. The grey thread was too fine and slipped off of the fabric when pushed closer together to create gathers. When I did this, I ended up holding on the thread and the fabric fell to the floor! Haha. No injuries to report also, I was able to sew slowly and carefully.

When I went to a library function over the weekend, some of the librarians I know wanted to see what my current project was and I was able to show them the bat dress. The librarians I showed the picture to adored the fabric and thought it was perfect for Halloween. Fueled by their love of the fabric, I finished the dress last Saturday and was able to wear it this week to work for a Teen Program. I paired the bat dress with plum shimmer tights and a plum cardigan. I wore my new cult revival spooky brooch and black platform penny loafers.

Next, week I will be writing about the navy, glow-in-the-dark constellation dress I have been working on this week. Thank you readers! Xoxo