Silk Newry Dress

The Newry Top and Dress is a relatively new pattern from Leila and I at Muna and Broad, and I recently had a fun event which warranted sewing a silky dress for the occasion!

I whipped up a Size F, View C Dress version of the Newry, using this $12p/m self-check black silk from The Fabric Store (which I’ve bought in various colours over the last couple of years because who can turn down silk at that price?!). I lengthened the skirt portion, skipped the pockets, and gave myself a less voluminous skirt by using 3 widths of the fabric instead of using the pattern-pieces provided. I had 5.7m of this fabric and have close to a metre left.

I used my overlocker instead of messing around with french seams (the shock! the horror!), but did use silk organza for the facings. Leila had used some kind of phrase like ‘different layers of Xray’ to describe her dreams of a sheer silk garment, and I love the idea so copied it but I actually find the orgaza a bit scratchy, so I do have some regrets.

Although I put myself in a time crunch which made me pretty impatient with this this fabric which wasn’t super well behaved (why have I never taken the time to work out how a walking foot works?!), I was taken by the idea of showing the Newry in a drapey fabric!