The Dress with no Pattern

For a very long time, I sewed clothing without the use of a pattern. This was mainly because I was afraid of sewing patterns. All those flimsy papers, markings and instructions.
However, once I got the hang of it, I found that I actually liked using a pattern. I really don't have to stress too much, or do running measurement tabulations in my head. Just cut, and follow instructions.
Lately though, my successes have been sewing without a pattern, like this dress.
I just love this dress, and cannot wait to wear it this summer. It is almost mid-July, and the heat wave has not set in yet. According to the weather man, the heat wave will be here by the end of the week. I can hardly wait!

Back to the dress. This dress is an accumulation of the the different sewing techniques that I've picked up since the start of the year.
Sewing with knit fabric,
cutting with a rotary blade,
gathering ruffles,
shirring, and
overlock blind hemming. (I tried to find you a good tutorial for this kind of hemming, but I did not find any. I'll try to link a tutorial, or post my own soon, since I think this is a fabulous way of blind hemming with a serger)

I'm keeping this post short, because I feel my laptop dying on me. It has died twice today already. I think it is the hard drive, among other things. My third hard drive for this 6 year old laptop. Sigh, I see a new laptop in the very near future. There goes my savings for a new patio set!