This one wasn't curtains

The fabric (another piece from the amazing amount of fabric brought by a friend dealing with a craft hoarder relative's stash)  was not quite two yards long, 52" wide, and hemmed on each end in a very home-made way--so, whatever it had originally been, it wasn't a curtain.

And now it's a dress

 that I can't decide if it would have looked better as a piece of furniture

It's a bit heavier than a calico, although not all the way to upholstery weight, and, honestly, barely even bottom weight.  Without a burn test to say otherwise, I'm convincing myself it really is cotton, with the slightly synthetic hand coming from the coarse fibers and heavy printing.

Sure.

We'll see how it feels to wear in a few days--even if it really is only cotton, its weight may make it more suitable to cooler weather, if that ever happens again.

It's the same mash up patterns to make a fake Burda 6401...although I had a moment of  disillusionment while sewing the bodice when I remembered that I had been using the facings from another pattern to make a neckline that wasn't as wide as the default on Butterick 6470, so I may eventually decide it's worth the effort to go in and add some bra loops...

The neckline edge stitching stitch length is shorter than I wanted, because I...uh...well, I had noticed throughout most of the early construction that the fabric wasn't advancing as much as it should have been with the stitch length that was set, but I thought that somehow the combination of fabric and interfacing was inhibiting the feed dogs' ability to grip and move everything.  Ha ha, nope, I hadn't seated the needle plate all the way down when I had replaced it after de-linting the bobbin area.  Oops.

So I corrected that and decided it wasn't worth the effort to pick out the edge stitching and redo it with a proper stitch length.

 Not pictured: as usual, I was working with less cloth than needed, and when it was time to cut out the very last piece, which happened to be the front facing, there wasn't enough yardage left anywhere to cut it all as one, so it was cut in two pieces with a center front seam.  Despite the cloth being somewhat heavier than normal, the bulk of that seam was completely unnoticed while sewing.

That means that the sleeves were also cut out on the cross grain, which seems to be something I do more often than not, doesn't it?

 and the cuffs were cut on some sort of bias, narrower than my pattern piece, and I forgot that I had interfaced the cuffs in the last fake 6401 I made, so they might be prone to doing weird stuff like shown here and that I 100% absolutely did not notice was happening when I took the picture.  It's fine, though.  Really.

That lack of fabric when cutting the front facing short circuited my brain and I completely forgot about cutting the pocket bags before I started sewing, but I did remember before starting to assemble the skirt.  I used another piece of the friend's relative's stash's cloth, in a definitely cotton print, and while I know that the cloth in a pocket doesn't need to coordinate at all with the fashion fabric, I still think the colors play off of each other well.

Once again, the 3/16" rolled hem attachment was used--I'm either getting better at using it or at picking cloth to use it on and/or angling the ends of the seams, because this worked painlessly.

And we're done!

There were some very small, possibly rust, stains on this very vintage cloth--one is on the front facing, and one is on the back of the bodice, near the left sleeve.  I don't think that'll be a problem.

After making this, I realized that I really want an enormous contrast-color brooch to wear on it.  I'll see what I can come up with.  And since I have green thread in the machine, I've decided my next sewing project will be to finally replace that hoodie that the kiddo wore to shreds and very much outgrew--after much hoping, I managed to thrift a few yards of a medium weight knit in the perfect shade of green!  And I did download and print the free Lekala kid's hoodie pattern, but...PDF assembly, bleah.  I thrifted an older New Look with an XS option for a front-seamed pullover hoodie, I'll make that work.

...but I might take some time to make a doll wig first, and/or repaint a doll.  Maybe.