Hawthorn Dress

This was supposed to be posted about a week and a half ago. I even had most of this post already written, and then I ran out of thread when I was topstitching! But I'm getting ahead of myself; let's start at the start. This dress is the Colette Patterns Hawthorn dress , I've loved this pattern since it was released, but what I don't love is the fit on the first one I made . That busy fabric print hides a multitude of sins! I'd been planning to make another one for ages, and when I dug out my pattern I nearly passed out when I saw all the alternations that Past Me had noted to make on the next one. So I drafted my own version from my block. I...