Sew and Tell: Colorblock Draped Dress #2

Color blocked Draped Dress

Two years ago, I started making these draped tank dresses and sold some of them in my shop. I decided to make another one but in a colorblock version. 

 I went through my stash and found these related colors; brown, grey, and striped light grey/rust. I thought they went well together. I sewed the three pieces together and cut the front of my self-drafted pattern on this. 

I decided to only color block the front and used the striped fabric for the back as you can see from the middle first photo on top. I also used the neck binding from t-shirts to bind the neck and arm holes. 

Stretching my super curly hair. It's getting really long, you just can't see the length when it's coiled up!  

I'm really happy with the way it came out and my older son's summer camp teacher's loved it so it's teacher approved! lol. 

Tell me what you think. Do you like draped styles? Colorblocking? What do you think of both combined? 

Sew and Tell: Color Block Draped Dress

Okay so I kept one of two promises from last week's color block draped dress post. I said I was going to iron the dress and show you pics of me wearing it. Well, here I am wearing it but it is not ironed! Sorry. I just had so much to do and I rather let you see it on me as quickly as possible. 

Doesn't it look better on a person than on the dress form? I certainly fill it out a lot more. I bought my mannequin before I had kids so I got bigger and my mannequin stayed the same, oh dear. 

Side view

Here is is without the belt. I really love it. 

Just to recap, this dress was designed on the dress form from fabric I sewed together. I love this organic way of designing. You can do it too, it's easy!

I still have to work on the neckline and perhaps will shorten it a bit but I can definitely see myself wearing this dress with sandals around my Bronx town in the summer time. 

Te gusta? (do you like?). I read each and every comment so feel free to post and let me know what you think.