This is the @criswoodsews #criswoodsewsparasol dress and I really love it.
Cris designs very clever zero-waste dresses, usually using rectangles. You may have noticed that I often make minor design alterations to patterns and being able to do that is one of the things I love about sewing.
https://criswoodsews.com/
I also learn from each pattern. In this dress, I used elements from another of Cris’s patterns the Globe Dress, and from the typical @MunaAndBroad sleeve cuffs. I love transferring the skills I learn along my sewing journey. I again used a soft cotton poplin.
The changes to this dress began because this is a directional fabric and that meant the over-the-shoulder pattern piece would not work as the pattern would be upside down on either the front or the back. So I added shoulder seam allowances and cut two fronts and two backs.
There are no darts or anything in this design and while the calculations take account of chest measurement, I decided I wanted to improvise a full bust adjustment. And I thought I would prefer it level around the waist than going up in a V.
Cris gives an option for cutting the bodice 1.5” longer and I did this. Then I curved each front from nothing at the centre up to 3” at the side seams (see pic – the pencil marks the division between front and back). I’m really happy with the result. I altered the back so the side seams would match.

I thought the back neck ties would irritate my skin, so I tried on the bodice a few times during sewing and ended up sewing the centre front up 7” from the waist; and the centre back 6”. This is more than you need if you use the ties. Doing this meant the facing wasn’t necessary so I added 1” to the width of each bodice and turned the hems under this amount and topstitched them down. This is the same method used in the Globe Dress.
The pockets are marked 3” from the side seam, but to allow for my bigger size, I moved them in 4.5”.
For the sleeves, instead of sewing them as one-layer standard sleeves, I interfaced them, folded them in half and made them into cuffs. I then sewed them on exactly as in the Muna and Broad cuff method. After sewing the short side of the sleeves together and folding over longwise. I then hold the tube up to the shoulder – half goes to the front and half to the back. It’s difficult to explain but @leila_sews has an excellent YouTube tutorial explaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4qB5vNfatE

This has the advantage that I didn’t have to work out how far to sew up the side seams, as with this sewing sorcery, the cuffs are sewn on first.
When I tried on the dress before hemming, I liked the length as was, so I just did a rolled hem on my overlocker/serger.
And to cap it off this must be one of the most comfortable floaty dresses I’ve ever worn.