Zebra Dress: Post #4 (by Grace)

The final installment in the making of the zebra dress! All I had left to do was put in the zip and sleeves, and turn up the hem.

 I may have mentioned how I was fine with putting in zips in my previous post... All the same, I had to do this one twice. But let's not dwell on that.

I tacked the facing to the shoulder seams so it doesn't flap about ungainly.

The sleeves starting to look a bit more sleeve-like!

Quick break for lunch, then on to attaching the sleeves to the dress.

I am quite scared of putting in sleeves but this turned out well!

The final step was turning up and pressing the hem.

Finished! It took me four days at a very leisurely pace to make this dress, and only in daylight hours so I could take decent photos! I'm looking forward to summer and better light for blogging activities (and also better weather to wear this sans tights...). Mum pointed out this article in the Observer Magazine yesterday - shift dresses are in, apparently. Were they ever out?

Here's the dress in all its safari glory:

Jeepers. I swear I ironed it. I just sat down for, like, half an hour before I got a photo taken... 

So what do you reckon? I'm pretty happy with the end result myself.

EDIT Alice : We think its great Grace, you clever lady

Thank you so much for your detailed posts. 
Hopefully this will give anyone thinking of sewing from a vintage pattern, the courage to do so!!

For more from Grace, go to her own blog at So On and Sew Forth