New release—M4M Poppy

Guess I’m a blogger now? Figured I might as well write about the test I squeezed in recently—the Made for Mermaids Poppy. I’ve been busy with but this one was so cute and looked like a quick sew, so I signed up.

Poppy comes with dress, vintage, and peplum options, an optional tier, two flutter sleeve options, sleeveless and three lengths of traditional sleeve options. Whew! For mine, I did the tiered dress option, which is actually a half circle skirt with a short tier, more of a wide ruffle. The top is a faux placket—no buttonholes! And I did the long flutter sleeve.

For my fabric I chose a blush floral rib knit from Threadbear Textiles (it doesn’t appear to be in stock anymore but lots of other rib knits there). Although it doesn’t call for it in the tutorial, I used knit interfacing along the placket. Even though there’s no need for button holes, I found on some other tops I’ve made with faux plackets, they tend to bunch or curl and gap between buttons, so I’m hoping this prevents that.

This was a super easy dress to put together. Attaching a gathered ruffle to a circle skirt is rarely anyone’s idea of fun, but this one is only lightly gathered so it’s not too much of a chore.

Between the beautiful, feminine fabric and the twirly-ness of the dress, this one is going to be a winner! My daughter has already begged to wear it outside to play, and told me it’s too fancy for school (yeah, I can’t figure that one out either).

Poppy is on sale right now through April 2, and is available in baby, girls, and womens sizes.

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