lightweight grey indian cotton fabric with embroidered spot

Libra Spot
Indian Cotton

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A charcoal grey light weight cotton with confetti like tiny stitched spots in purple, grey, blue and orange.

Make yourself a party dress with our Etta or Florence dress patterns.

105cm wide.
2.5oz, 85gsm.
100% cotton.
Please note: Indian hand-made cloths are sometimes susceptible to irregularities in the print, this is all part of their charm and are not classed as flaws.
For the first couple of washes, place the fabric in the washing machine drum with a handful of table salt. This will help fix the dye to prevent it running.
Wash at 30 or 40 degrees with a non bio detergent. Do not tumble dry.
As all computer monitors show colours differently, we recommend ordering a sample of the cloth to check it is the right colour and weight for your project.
Thread match Gutermann Sew All 95.

Maxine wears size 12 Trapeze party dress hack - instructions for the hack can be found here.

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The Trapeze - The Party Dress Hack

We’ve written a new pattern hack for The Trapeze, adding a full, double layered gathered skirt with a ribbon tie back. The result is playful and fun and the perfect canvas for a bright or embellished fabric. We chose our new Flame Tumbled Cotton Poplin (and the Alma cotton voile for lining). Because poplin is a tightly woven cloth and quite crispy it gives the dress a sculptural look. If you choose something softer like an Indian cotton it will have a softer silhouette. The second dress is made from our Libra Spot Indian Cotton.

We recommend using woven cottons (2-4.3oz) for this make, to achieve the crisp finish on the visible gather detail. Some suggestions would be: Tumbled cotton poplin, block print cotton, hemp/cotton blend, fine Indian hand weaves, Japanese cotton poplin and triple wash.

We bagged our bodice out with self fabric, but used a light cotton voile/muslin for the skirt lining.

Depending on the fabric you choose, there are two options for the skirt volume – gathered x 3 for finer cottons (up to 3oz) which gives a nice full skirt, or gathered x 2 for more sculptural cottons (up to 4.3oz) like our tumbled cotton poplin. Be aware that there is a lot of gathering to the skirt and if you choose a denser fabric then it will be harder to gather neatly which is why we have created the 2 x gather version.

You'll need the The Trapeze pattern and you can download the instructions here.