Not on purpose, mind you. Actually, I have no proof that I threw the dress away, beyond the fact that it’s not anywhere in my house. It’s also possible that I donated the dress to charity during one of my crazy purges — I’ve had a lot of those this month. There’s also a good chance that my one-year-old “helped” me by sticking the dress in the trash, just like he keeps “cleaning” my phone right into in the recycling bin. All I know for sure is that my dress is gone.

Once I passed through all seven stages of grief, I decided to make another one — except this one is bright pink instead of navy blue. It’s not a colour I usually buy but it was on sale for about $6 or $7 per metre — and when linen is 80% off, you buy it all and maybe a bottle of fabric dye. Turned out nice, didn’t it?

This time I made the dress in a smaller size, though I still found the neckline too low and ended up resewing the straps to bring it up a bit. And then, because I needed to find away to camouflage the blinding pink colour, I added some epic pockets to the sides. I don’t know about you, but I don’t even see pink anymore. I just see awesome pockets.

I saw this meme on both Twitter and Facebook a month or two ago:

Me: *wears a dress that has pockets*
Person: “I like your dress”
Me: “thanks, it has pockets!!!”

It’s funny because it’s true.

I’m so excited to make a few more and literally double my summer wardrobe. My next Wiksten will be in black linen and I’ll probably do it a size bigger again so that I can layer it over shirts in the fall and winter. I’d also like to do one with more of a racer back — I have a beautiful robin’s egg blue linen that will look hideous on me, but the colour is oh-so-pretty that I’m going to use it anyway. Oh, and I’ve got the most gorgeous lightweight cotton that’s been stashed away in my dresser for a year that would work perfectly – maybe with a bit of an elastic waistline added?

Hopefully I can knock off a few this week. Maybe I need to book another camping trip for motivation.

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