An Edwardian Inspired Dress

Since seeing Mary's stunning outfits on Downton Abbey a few months ago, I queued up a modified version of her striped gown for my Colette Spring Palette Challenge.

I have finally completed the outfits I have planned, and finished with the striped Spring dress.  I used a Sense and Sensibility Edwardian gown pattern and made some modifications.

I love the way it came out, though I'm actually tempted to try a version more closely matching Mary's gown.  I just need to find the right stripes.  The small green stripes didn't have the same effect but I think still turned out great for a fun Spring dress.

Mary's gown from the show.

More details are on my blog: What's Up, Cupcake?

Edwardian Camisole/Corset Cover

Although I have a bunch of 1940's -60's patterns stacked up and waiting to be sewn, I decided to jump back a few decades more and make an Edwardian camisole.  It was a lot of fun to sew and incredibly easy too!  You can check out other shots of it and the few changes I made to the pattern on my blog.