Black polka dot dress

this time the dress is for my sister.

back in February I was given this black polka dot fabric. I had every intention of making myself a sundress with it for this summer. then I won the red polka dot fabric, and while yes I could have had two polka dot dresses I decided one for now would be fine, and asked my sister if she would like a dress. of course she said yes. she happens to be the same size as the pattern so that made it all the easier. plus being that I used the same pattern as the one I made my red dress from it went together more quickly.
the one issue I do have with the pattern is I don’t like how the pleats and darts line up. I know that I am being ticky here but I really wanted the darts and the pleats to line up evenly, but the pattern has the darts hitting in the middle of a pleat. to me it has a cleaner line to all be even together, so I I shifted the pleats a bit to get the look I wanted. I had to do this on my red dress as well but I figured it was because I had to resize mine. but like I said I am just being ticky here.

here is how I lined it up.

and I was really irritated at walmart because they were all out of the half inch bias tape, (the nearest fabric store is an hour away.) they are so bad at keeping things in stock. they did have the quarter inch folded bias tape, so I opted to buy that and press it flat, which works but its so much easier and really looks better, not to have to press it. this will be it for the polka dots for now. at least the sewing aspect of it. I hope to get the three of us together really soon to do a photo shoot. won’t that be so fun!