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I haven’t tried adding a lining, buy maybe someone else will chime in who has?

Sorry for the silence, @esseesee! We’ve been on vacation. Because of the pleats, this pattern is quite forgiving in terms of measurements. It’s difficult to give a hip measurement as a result of the built-in ease. If you find that the side seam buckles you might want to draw a wider hip curve, but that would be the only necessary change, really.…[Read more]

Where do you purchase the poly/cotton poplin is it something that can be found in Joanns at least for initial use?

Ava

If anyone has any pic of the underside of the dress construction please share. I’ve seen a blog about adding the lawn and crimoline (tulle type) but its hard to visualize the stitching without seeing the inside of the dress.

OK I see it now. I’ve cut out the pattern pieces so I think it will make more sense. Yes I did think about the Fairy Tale Dress but thought since I had the book, let me try as many variations as I can with this.

I’m going to bypass the tulle for now and just try a simpler version with a rayonny drapy material I picked up.

I’ll have to check if…[Read more]

Liesl has corrected the problem with the pattern, and we’ve placed an errata notice on the website. It can be found here. Fortunately, it’s a simple issue to fix.

https://oliverands.com/liesl-and-co-patterns/OLV-LC017SS.html#tab-errata

The digital version of the pattern has been updated with this fix.

Julia R. I think because of the loose nature of this below the waist you could just go with your waist measurements. I am not an expert by any means, so maybe someone more knowledgeable about fitting your body shape will chime in.
Jennifer

Liesl,
I changed the center pleat and that helped a lot. I still have about .5 inches extra, but that is probably user error. I have never sewn anything with a perfect seam allowance. I will scootch some of the pleats over a smidge and it will end up perfect.
Thanks so much for checking this. I was starting to feel a bit inept not knowing…[Read more]

Great, thanks for your advice. I will make a start on the hat tomorrow!

Just got my pattern in the mail and am excited to start. This always perplexes me: my waist is 33″ (size 14) and my hips are 38″ (size 6). Should i grade between sizes? It seems like a big jump.

I think you’d probably be just fine to skip the interfacing (except for the brim, where called for in the pattern) – it will change the feel of the hat, but for a baby I think softer/floppier will be just fine. I’ve made maybe 10 of these hats, all in quilting cottons but of various weights, and with whatever interfacing I have on hand (from very…[Read more]

@cat75, as you suspected, the center pleat is the problem. It isn’t graded correctly, and I’m so sorry about that! I’m working on a solution to the problem, but in the meantime, if you want to restitch the pleat to be 2″ from the rise seam I think that should solve the problem. Will you report back to me and let me know if that works? I’m still…[Read more]