Chevron dress

My first garment from 'The Sewing of Children's Clothes Lesson Book': Dress H-2 in size 110, narrowed a little for a better fit.  This book is fantastic because although it's in Japanese, many of the instructions include extensive photographs of the sewing process - like mini sewing lessons. Although this particular dress has limited instructions, the blouse version of the same pattern is amply illustrated, enabling me to figure out how to put the dress together reasonably easily (assuming I got it right, that is). And to further simplify matters I omitted the side pockets.

The fabric is a very light cotton (voile perhaps?) found on the discount table at Darn Cheap. It's a border print, but the area where the border met the main fabric has been all messed up in the printing - presumably why it was selling for $2 a metre. Still, I knew I could work around the badly-printed section and use the border and main fabric together in some way, so I bought a few metres. I was a bit concerned that pintucks might look bizarre on the chevron fabric but as it turned out, all the zigzags seemed to match up nicely.

I love this pattern and adore the sweet little details on the ribbon ties at the back. It's a great fit on R, too. Just don't stare at the chevrons for too long or your eyes will start to swim...