Yes I Can [Finish] Dress in Sunflower Yellow

Do you love this crazy look on my face?  I didn't crop it out because it's honest, LOL!  I was half puzzled and a little impatient with my new camera remote, and of course this crazy face picture gave the clearest shot of the dress.

I dyed the BurdaStyle Danielle dress I sewed last week.  Sarah from Sewer-Sewist suggested Jacquard brand dye, remembering it might not require hot water and therefore wouldn't shrink my already-snug new dress.  Thanks for the suggestion -- according to Jacquard's site, it requires hot water.  As a thumbs-up sign from the universe, I had on hand some Dylon dye in Sunflower Yellow, and it turns out that it uses just warm water.  So I went for it!  The color came out exactly like the color swatch on the package, and although it's darker than I wanted it to be, I do like it.  After the dye job, I washed the dress in cold water as instructed, and air dried it.  It shrunk a bit from this process.  (BTW, Elizabeth:  I also considered dying this dress a deep, rich plum but happened to have the yellow readily available.  Maybe I can dye something plum before our month of cold comes and goes!)

I picked up some lovely rayon lace last weekend and sewed it onto the empire band -- this dress has sweet and simple lines but I wanted to add a touch of frou-frou.  I like how this turned out, too!  The heavy muslin is wrinkle-prone (and not very soft, unfortunately), so I pressed it with a steam iron.  This may very well be the first time I've made a garment for myself that is too tight across the bust and fits fine everywhere else, LOL!  

I wrote a short review of the BurdaStyle Danielle on PatternReview.com.