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I've successfully made a dress. A knee-length, full-skirted, princess-seamed dress. Go me!
I used an old favorite dress of mine as a pattern. Yes, I kept a dress far after it was wearable, because I knew it was my One True Dress and I had hopes of handing it to someone to have copies made. So I took one half of it apart (keeping the other half intact for reference), and just used the dress pieces themselves as the pattern.
It worked! It worked! I have a new dress that I made! The only problem I ran into was when I sewed the zipper in backward, and taking the seam ripper to it and sewing it in correctly wasn't too vexing.
Huge thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mineke and balzacq for giving me some hints on sewing princess seams the other day; they really did help.
Now I just have to work up my courage to attempting to make The Dress in 4-way stretch velvet ...
I used an old favorite dress of mine as a pattern. Yes, I kept a dress far after it was wearable, because I knew it was my One True Dress and I had hopes of handing it to someone to have copies made. So I took one half of it apart (keeping the other half intact for reference), and just used the dress pieces themselves as the pattern.
It worked! It worked! I have a new dress that I made! The only problem I ran into was when I sewed the zipper in backward, and taking the seam ripper to it and sewing it in correctly wasn't too vexing.
Huge thanks to
mineke and balzacq for giving me some hints on sewing princess seams the other day; they really did help.Now I just have to work up my courage to attempting to make The Dress in 4-way stretch velvet ...
