Botanical Embroidered Myosotis Dress

Just a quick post here to catalogue a make from last September, the Myosotis Dress from Deer and Doe Patterns. I’ll link to the supplies I used at the bottom of this post. I am so so happy with how this turned out (no mods were made to the pattern), it was made to be a fun party dress and that’s exactly what it feels like when I wear it. It is also nearly all hand finished, the inside is almost as beautiful as the outside. The gathers are even hand-sewn stroke gathers, which to me is a much more enjoyable process than machine sewn gathers, even though it does take longer. Enjoy these photos and then check out some of the linked resources!

Fabric: Laundered Linen in Vintage Rose colour from Maiwa

Pattern: Myosotis Dress from Deer and Doe Patterns

Embroidery Pattern: Embroidered Botanicals book by Yumiko Higuchi

Hand-sewn gathers: recently learned in a class from Sewn Stories

Wool thread: Crewel Wool Thread from Appleton’s Wool

Cotton thread: cotton 6-strand embroidery floss from dmc embroidery