Saraste Shirt Dress

Over the last couple of months, I picked up sewing as a hobby. Now I’m excited to share about this Saraste Shirt Dress I made! The sewing pattern comes from the book Breaking The Pattern, by Named Clothing.

(A quick note to 中文 readers: if you’ve been following some of the other posts in this blog – mostly parenting in the US written in Chinese 中文 – rest assured that this blog is not hacked/pwned. It’s just Miki decides to share sewing related stuff here 😄.)

My version of the Saraste Dress looks like this:

Steps Overview #

On instagram, the steps/instructions to sew pieces together is a major complaint for most readers – you have to keep flipping back and forth, jumping around the book to be able to know how to sew a certain step. To be fair, I think this issue is the result of:

The inherit complexity that the projects involve (just look at the Halla Coat!), and
The authors’ intention to have readers do the projects in the order of easy to hard – readers are expected to acquire each sewing skill along the way. But in reality nobody sews...

My version of the Saraste Dress looks like this:

Steps Overview #

The inherit complexity that the projects involve (just look at the Halla Coat!), and
The authors’ intention to have readers do the projects in the order of easy to hard – readers are expected to acquire each sewing skill along the way. But in reality nobody sews...

My version of the Saraste Dress looks like this:

Steps Overview #

The inherit complexity that the projects involve (just look at the Halla Coat!), and
The authors’ intention to have readers do the projects in the order of easy to hard – readers are expected to acquire each sewing skill along the way. But in reality nobody sews...