Here's to one of our favourite sewing patterns - the ever versatile Heron Shirt and Heron Dress. Favoured because it's a deceivingly easy sew with great results. The shirt and dress are super versatile - depending on your fabric (and shoe choices), you can take it from the beach to the board room.
The raglan sleeves ensures a perfect shoulder fit and the open neck (there is a closed neck option too).
This blog guides you through a PATTERN HACK to add a new frilled short sleeve.
But first - let's take a look at what's included in each pattern after purchase:
The Heron Shirt comes with a standard gathered sleeve and double gathered sleeve style options.
The Heron Dress comes with a 7/8 fold under frill sleeve and 7/8 small balloon gathered sleeve (added in March 2021).
Both the sleeve and shirt patterns have a line marking on the sleeve to cut for a two piece sleeve option. The instructions below show you how to add a short sleeve frill style, with or without added lace.
This is our Boho look short sleeve frilled Heron Dress (with open neck): 
And shirt version:
With a closer look at the sleeve you can see we have added some lace to the base of the top sleeve section before attaching the gathered lower section:
