I said I'd finished a sundress on the weekend and here - with the help of my tripod and handy-dandy remote - it is.

I still call this April's dress even though March's isn't finished yet (it's cut out). It's very comfortable. I used the Mendocino sundress pattern and two layers of cotton voile (Anna Maria Horner's Little Folks). I love this fabric. When we went to Victoria at the beginning of April I was really excited about getting to visit one of my favourite quilting shops - The Satin Moon - and secretly hoping I'd be able to get a couple of voiles for this dress. I especially wanted pinks, one print and one solid, and they had just what I was looking for. In fact that's all they had left!

I used French seams to sew the sides of both layers and left out the pockets entirely. This fabric is too lightweight to handle having anything in the pockets anyway. I sewed the two layers together at the top of the dress with a regular seam since the raw edges are contained by the shirring. The shirring took a while. I probably could have spaced my lines a little further apart - half an inch instead of a quarter - but they give such a nice snug fit. The spaghetti straps were sewn in place by hand afterwards.

The hem may be one of my favourite features of this dress. I wanted the skirt to feel as light as possible so I … um … didn't hem it. When I cut out the pieces I measured the length of the Mendocino dress I made last year and cut this one to match. I did some controlled fraying to the raw edges and then let them be. It was a lot faster than doing two rolled hems and feels really lovely and floaty. I may trim the lining to be a little shorter than the printed fabric but for now they are the same length.