Take a look at Leilani's four Sapphires!

Let’s take a look at some more makes from one of our Sapphire preview testers!!

In this post, I’m featuring the FOUR beautiful Sapphires that our preview tester Leilani created. Leilani has tested patterns for us before — like Citrine and Rose — so you might recognize her from those pattern tester roundup posts. And if you follow along with her on Instagram, you’ll see she is a prolific maker and incorporates many different arts into the things she makes, including her handmade wardrobe and her shop where she sells awesome one-of-a-kind chalk bags for climbers.

I love this first Sapphire dress that Leilani made out of a re-purposed vintage tablecloth:

This green Sapphire top was made with a quilting cotton that perfectly matched the river on St Patrick’s day, how awesome is that?

This next version is so fun with a playful selection of coordinating prints and the facings on the outside:

And finally, my jaw dropped when I saw this color-blocked version, which is just delightful.What a great way to go if you want to make Sapphire but you don’t have enough fabric for an entire dress, and instead have a handful of smaller (1-2 yard) cuts of solid fabric, right?!

Here’s what Leilani had to say about the pattern:

“Made by Rae's Sapphire Dress Pattern is a floaty dream to make and wear! I used fabrics in my stash for the 2 dresses, which consist of linen/rayon blends for the block colored dress and an thrifted, upcycled linen/cotton vintage tablecloth for the yellow dress. My first makes with the pattern were the Sapphire Top made with quilting cotton just to get a feel for the adventure. I had no issues at all reading and making Rae's beautiful pattern. It was fun fishing for buttons in my jar to match my makes. My absolute favorite part about the pattern is the ability to not have to sew button holes! Sweet little secret hack! And then the complete joy and delight in waltzing around in dreaminess! Thank you, Rae!” 

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Thank you so much for being one of our preview testers, Leilani! Each one of these is so unique and beautiful!! It’s so fun to see your personal take on this pattern.

You can find more of Leilani’s makes by following her on instagram: @studiogypsy

Sapphire is available now in my pattern shop. See all things Sapphire - blog posts, charts, tutorials, helpful tutorials — on the Sapphire page.