My dress is almost done, but with the short week because of Thanksgiving, I doubt I’ll have time to finish it until the weekend. Nonetheless, I am very happy with how it’s going!
After assembling the bodice I discovered I had to make some alterations to the vertical darts. I consider myself to be a fairly slender person and I did compensate for my less-than-hourglass figure by cutting the waist and hip a size larger, but it was still far too tight in the waist! To fix the problem I removed the darts and replaced them with narrower ones.
Chalk outline = original dart per pattern
Assembled bodice with adjusted darts
I also needed to make some adjustments to the seams on my dress. The lace on my dress is made of synthetic material, so it’s pretty darn scratchy on my ridiculously skin. To avoid any problems, I finished all the seams with bias tape. Not only does the tape help stop the itchies, it also helps prevent the silk fibers from fraying because we all know what a huge mess that turns into about 0.2 seconds after cutting out all the pattern pieces. I wanted to get a crazy-obnoxious color bias tape (magenta!), but Joann’s didn’t have the colors I wanted in the width I wanted, so I settled for lavender.
Scratchy seams!
Seams with lavender bias tape (note my iPhone on the left playing Mad Men)
I finally have the skirt attached to the bodice, and am left with sleeves, a zipper, and hemming to complete. Hooray! I’m so happy it’s turning out well! There are sequins all over the house and I’m sure it will shed more during the party, but I don’t care because it’s going to be so purdy. Yes, purdy. Unfortunately pictures with flash just don't do the dress justice.
Left: front of dress. Right: back of dress sans zipper.
I hope to have a final product to share within the week!
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