Dress

Introducing our new Aida Dress Pattern

Meet our first new pattern of 2025 – the Aida Dress. An absolute labour of love, this pattern has been almost two years in the making with numerous tweaking, much drafting and many, many samples sewn. The end design is…

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The Leni Top-to-Dress (Version 2.0)

This make is inspired by a few things, but foremost an occasion. The provided dress code was ‘Formal’ so I settled on making something that worked not just as a “dressy” dress but a piece that could be equally good…

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The NEW Mattea Dress & Mattea Top Pattern

We’re gearing up for summer days & summer nights with our latest pattern. Introducing Mattea – a simple, comfortable style that offers options for both a dress (View A) and top (View B) in one pattern. Mattea has been designed…

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The Leni Top, but make it a dress

Pinterest made me do it, as Pinterest often does. I found this Raey dress (below), saved it and could not get it out of my head. There’s something really appealing to me about wearing loose dresses with plenty of fabric…

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The Bubble Frock by Lydia Naomi Studio

My daughter wanted a little black dress and here’s that request fulfilled thanks to the Bubble Frock pattern by Lydia Naomi. With a fitted bodice and spaghetti straps, this pattern is a sweet summer classic. The empire waist features a subtle…

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Little Black Dress, Big Black Collar

Gabby recently came across & fell in love with this RTW dress. It’s a relatively simple style so Silva set out to replicate it for her and here’s the gorgeous result. For the bodice, Silva used our Georgie Top pattern, adding a button extension overlap…

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The Jane Dress pattern, a 2016 favourite

Today we’re revisiting our Jane Dress in a short, sweet blog post. Originally published in 2016, we’re still madly in love with this simple and timeless A-line design that features a small neckline split, short sleeves and a single side pocket. A…

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The Birthday Dress That Almost Was

There once was a 40 frock so why not a 50 frock as well? First thing to note: those last ten years have gone really, really FAST (exploding head emoji goes here). Also to note: favourite decade so far and…

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Colour blocking the Astrid Sundress

After yesterday’s release of our new Astrid Sundress pattern, we thought we’d share this colour blocked sample sewn up during our sampling phase which has turned out to be one of Colette’s favourites. Using a combination of three of our…

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