One of the most exciting things for me lately is seeing pictures popping up of everyone’s Perth dresses, it’s been absolutely wonderful seeing it work and how everyone makes it look even more amazing than I could have dreamed! … I personally think it looks fab on everyone but then maybe I’m a wee bit biased? 
By the way; by far the most oft-repeated feedback I have received has been requests for a greater size range… I promise this is being worked on right now, as we speak! type? read? well, right now, anyway. And will be on offer pretty soon.
But in the meantime… behold, my lovely testers! all totally rocking their Perth creations…
Vesna of @kelerabeus ; blog: kelerabeus
SaSa of @paisleypirouette ; blog: Alles neu macht der Mai!
Sue of @acolourfulcanvas blog: A Colourful Canvas
Ylenia of @len.blueskystitch
Megan of @meggipeg blog: Create with Wild Abandon
… and last but not least; Mum!
Now for a little story… I have to confess that I made Mum’s dress here! Mum did print out the pattern and made a dress, but it was a little small and oddly shaped, which was very confusing. It took me quite a while to work out WHAT the heck was going on … she’d sent me photos of her pattern which had some weird anomalies. It was the lead up to our release, and was all quite stressful actually, totally doing our heads in. Finally she had the opportunity to bring her pattern itself up to my place, I made a few measurements and worked out that the printer must have been set to “fit to scale” for parts of it, meaning the pattern was partially printed out of whack. It was miraculous that she’d managed to make the dress at all, really.
A timely reminder… when printing the pattern at home, check that the printer is set to ACTUAL SIZE!!!!
I didn’t want to make poor Mum make another dress, and I can practically make them in my sleep now, so I resolved to make one for her myself, a little surprise, to make up for all the stress the mis-printed pattern put her through. I whizzed up to Fabulous Fabrics, bought some of this lovely charcoal grey linen and a purple-y/grey pearly button that I think looks absolutely beautiful with it! and quickly whipped one up. I think it looks absolutely beautiful on her, she loves it! and it fits perfectly too, yay! so all is well that ends well.
At Mum’s request, I made the sleeves longer, and she decided she likes them rolled up to make a faux cuff.
I’m showing it twice… but really, that button?!! I LOVE it!!
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