June 2025

Welcome to your June 2025  Dream Wardrobe.

UK SIZES 6-30

A cute cotton summer dress is a wardrobe staple. One that can be worn with sandals or dressed up with heels is the perfect all day holiday dress. This dress pattern can even be worn as a tunic top with trousers later in the year.  It can even be shortened into a blouse. 

 

About the fabric:

Oscar stripe cotton is a lightweight poplin in burgundy with a light blue stripe which is so popular with some of our favourite fashion brands right now. 

The Oscar Stripe Cotton Poplin - Burgundy & Sky Blue is on the website now. If you need to buy more for your projects, just click the links above.

As with most fabrics, we recommend you prewash to remove any dressing and allow for pre-shrinking. A cool wash will be fine; just make sure the temperature you use to prewash is the temperature at which you plan to wash the final garment. You don’t want your final garment to shrink.

 

The fabric would also work well for: 

Madswick Beth Blouse

I Am Patterns Marguerite Dress (short version)

Matchy Matchy Sewing Club High Tide Set

About the pattern:

Spaghetti Western Sewing Juno Dress

For June's Dream Wardrobe you will get the Juno dress which is inspired by spooky girls, sulking, the smell of sharpened pencils, porches in the rain, and skinned knees.

The Juno dress has a short baby doll cut and ample ease.  The dress features a half placket, two collar options, a large back box pleat, and two front views: a flat front and one with a yoke and gathers. The pattern designed to be worn buttoned up.  You will have enough fabric to choose either version and will have enough to lengthen it a little if you wish. 

Sizing Notes: Juno sizing is selected by bust measurement and spans from 32" (81 cm) to 60.5" (154 cm) with generous ease in all views. Spaghetti Western Sewing sizing names deviate from standard sizing.

Instructions can be viewed and printed here.

 

Notions:

• Coordinating thread (included)
• Fusible interfacing
• Five buttons for placket and collar stand. We used Shell Button - 11m - Rose pink

 

The Juno Dress would look great in:

Farfalle Gingham Cotton Poplin - Red

Liberty Fabrics Tana Lawn® Matilda Bloom - Ecru

Willis Cotton Mix Gingham - Black & White

About your gift:

'Heart & Stripe' Woven Labels - Blue & Green

Spice up your me mades with adorable heart and stripe woven garment labels by Matchy Matchy.

These machine woven custom labels are incredibly high quality and a breeze to sew with.

Perfect to add to any sewing project to provide some extra flare.

Packaged in the Matchy Matchy signature envelope for safe keeping. 

Square labels are 1" square when folded in half and included a seam allowance on top for sewing into the seam of your make.

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Happy sewing, Josie xxx

Sewing Notes

Laura sewed up this sample, and below are her sewing notes:

The first thing I noticed when making the Juno dress is that the Spaghetti Western patterns do not follow standard sizing. Their size measurements are worked out differently - a medium being the 'average' bust measurement of women in the United States - so make sure to double check yourself against the body and garment measurements provided to find your best fit. 

It is also important to note that the pattern is fitted for a height of 5'3" (shorter than average) so make sure to check the garment finished length measurements against yourself to see if you want to amend the length. 

We added 14cm to the length so that it could be a dress on Josie who is 5'10"! This is a lot to add all in one place, so I split the amount in half and added 7cm through the lengthen/shorten lines at the waist, and the rest at the hem. I re-drew the side seam line from underarm to hem - to be a nice smooth edge - and then added the remaining 7cm onto the hem by drawing a parallel line following along the curved edge to meet the side seam. 

Once you have amended the length on your pattern, line up the front and back side seams to make sure the underarm and hem edges meet,  and that the hem edge is a nice smooth curve. 

Using the stripe fabric - I'm one of the 'life is too short to pattern match' sewers ... I just made sure to cut all the main pieces with a stripe in the centre front / centre back so that everything that could match, I didn't have to think about.  A few pieces needed a slight tweak for the lines to match but overall it came out nicely. 

I found the instructions a bit confusing as they jump about from piece to piece, and I prefer making a garment in order (all the sleeve bits at once, all the collar at once, instead of jumping from sleeve hem, to back tuck, to front yoke,  to sleeve head gathers.... etc. I would recommend reading all the instructions through first and then follow them in your own preferred order - making the front yoke seam and front placket first (as this is easier to do flat before the shoulders are joined). 

To finish the inside ends of the front placket, I used a scrap of fabric to make a small length of binding - I cut with the grain a rectangle around 5cm x 3cm, folded the all ends in and stitched across the top of the binding to finish.