Oh no, not another one!

This is my fifth completed version of Butterick B4790.

The fabric is Katie Jump Rope, bought from Cia's Palette.
I live in the UK, and I've found it surprisingly easy to buy fabric from the US. It costs $11 shipping for 6 yards of fabric in a flat rate envelope, which by a fabulous coincidence is just enough to make one of these dresses with a little bit left over. :)

Here's the finished article...

...and here's the work in progess.

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1) The recipient of this dress has diabetes, and she wears an insulin pump. For her convenience, I've added a little pocket to the inside of the dress, for the pump to sit in.
(Yes, this photo was taken before I'd ironed the dress!)

2) These pretty floral buttons came from John lewis.
The button on the back of the dress is a four-hole white one, which came from the depths of my inherited button tins.

A slight shortage...

Here's the second work-in-progress of the week - and the second dress for Nannyo! this one's going to be worn to a wedding in about a month's time.

As you can see, I appear to be having a slight binding shortage...

I bought the same amount of binding that I used for the elephant dress. However, I didn't bind the back (inside) edges of the elephant dress, I just hemmed them. I've bound all the edges on this one, thereby leaving myself about a mere and a half short. Oops!

Never mind, I can run down to Fabric Land tomorrow and pick up some more. I also need to find three lovely buttons for the front fastening. Between all my inherited button tins, I couldn't find a single thing! Actually that's not true - the lovely red flower-shaped buttons that I did find were just a bit too big.

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1) My cutting table is about six inches too short for this dress!

2) Looks a bit nothingy before the binding, doesn't it? It's much nicer with the cream edges.

3) A close-up of the fabric - "Katie Jump Rope" by Denyse Schmidt. Bought from Cia's Palette.