Belcarra Bling Dress

Now that I had completed my first Belcarra, the old cogs in my brain kicked into action and I was keen to explore other ways of utilizing this versatile pattern.  I had vision of stretch velour in a tunic type of dress and just for fun, throw in a bit of bling to mix things up a bit.  My inspiration was this tunic dress sold at Kimberley's.

In the back of my mind also, was Courteney's birthday and I wanted a dress with a casual vibe to wear to her celebrations.

I purchased  on Trademe a two metre piece of the most gorgeous stretch velour with a lurex silver thread running through it in a checkered pattern.  This time I simply cut the top longer to dress length.  I didn't take into account when buying the fabric though, that pesky check.  It did not want to match up!  I did the best I could with the matching but if you look closely it is far from perfect.  I felt the neck on my last top was a little wide so for this version I simply reduced the binding seam allowance to a scant 1cm instead of the recommended 1.5cm.  Once again I used stretch satin as my binding of choice which meant no cutting on the bias, 
excellent!

Will I make this pattern again?  Well, yes, definitely.  I might even make it up as Tasia intended!