Sewn: Fibremood Cleo Dress
Second make of 2025 was the Fibremood Cleo Dress (Issue 21). It is a short, flared dress with lantern sleeves, a belt and a whole heap of top stitching. When I initially bought the magazine, this dress didn't really appeal to me, but I bought some floral cotton (which looks a little denim like) back in the winter which I thought would look good in this style...and I think I was right. So, there are two things that are a bit of a drawback to this pattern: a) the number of pattern pieces b) the button placket. I'm not great at buttonholes. The difficulty rating is 2/5 but I have been sewing a long time now and I still hate buttonholes, so for that reason alone I would rate it 3/5. You can see I made a bit of a mess where the placket meets the skirt. Getting giggly in the toilets of The Ivy, Oxford I wanted to accentuate the red in the print, so all my top stitching is in red and I also bought some red metal D rings for the belt. My buttons are from the stash - I didn't have ...
