I remember being invited to a new year's eve party - back when I was a university student. I didn't feel I had anything appropriate to wear - and I didn't have much money to spare. Then I came across a pattern for a lacy crocheted dress... It looked quick and easy to make... and it was! (Though nothing is ever as easy as one thinks!)
The problem, as I recall, was suddenly realizing that, with its lacy holes, I'd need to wear a matching slip under it... I found some fabric that matched... But this time I had no pattern - or sewing machine. So I cut out a slip and sewed it by hand!
I managed to finish it all in time for the party!
A few years later, I wan't wearing the dress much, so I gave it to my mother, who at the time was teaching crafts in her high school home economics class. I thought she could use it as a sample.
She did more than that: she began to wear it, after creating a more professional-looking slip to go under it. She also made a matching jacket with leftover yarn (The jacket seen above)... She wore it a lot - when crocheted dresses were in style.
I don't know when the dress was last worn - but it's hard to get rid of a dress that brings back memories like that!
