The dress is done!
So i finished the dress off yesterday - didnt stop for lunch at all as the lady was coming round at 4h30 and i had ALOT to get through....
Anyways, here are some images of the work in progress....
First of all I had to figure out how to make a cap sleeve without actually having a seperate sleeve....
I decided to just curve the shoulder seam done abit further and try it out at different lengths to see what would be best....
now remember this dress is not for me (my arm) and believe it or not this was actually 2 inches below the ladies shoulder line....anyways, i thought it didnt look much of a cap so i decided to take it abit further....
This one i liked, on me it doesnt look much but on her i was sure it would sit like a cap sleeve would (or the one she wanted anyways)....
Then it was down to the pattern manipulation..... Here you take the basic body block and slash it to add gathers where you want them...
she wanted gathers at the neckline, shoulders, waist and hem, but none around the bust area....
This is just before the first cut - always the scariest!! cutting into 750:- worth of fabric (about £60) is quite daunting incase i slip or bodge it up!!
You can see from the pattern how the slashing worked out and where i want it to gather and not....
.........
skip abit (im really crap at taking photos of the work whilst im doing it)
........
The dress is done!!! I dont have a photo of the lady in it as she felt like she wasnt suitable enough (i think it was the use of sock as footwear that did it! ;-) ) but i will get one!!!
It doesnt look much here at all, but when on, it looked lovely! VERY pleased with the outcome indeed..
close up of neckline and shoulder gathers - these werent half difficult! made worse by the fact that the fabric is soo slippery... turn out nice though..
the different coloured beads i put in an earlier post....look good i think! cant really even tell they arent buttons!
.........
So all in all, very happy with myself....and thankfully so was she!
....on to the next project!
Anyways, here are some images of the work in progress....
First of all I had to figure out how to make a cap sleeve without actually having a seperate sleeve....
I decided to just curve the shoulder seam done abit further and try it out at different lengths to see what would be best....
now remember this dress is not for me (my arm) and believe it or not this was actually 2 inches below the ladies shoulder line....anyways, i thought it didnt look much of a cap so i decided to take it abit further....
This one i liked, on me it doesnt look much but on her i was sure it would sit like a cap sleeve would (or the one she wanted anyways)....
Then it was down to the pattern manipulation..... Here you take the basic body block and slash it to add gathers where you want them...
she wanted gathers at the neckline, shoulders, waist and hem, but none around the bust area....
This is just before the first cut - always the scariest!! cutting into 750:- worth of fabric (about £60) is quite daunting incase i slip or bodge it up!!
You can see from the pattern how the slashing worked out and where i want it to gather and not....
.........
skip abit (im really crap at taking photos of the work whilst im doing it)
........
The dress is done!!! I dont have a photo of the lady in it as she felt like she wasnt suitable enough (i think it was the use of sock as footwear that did it! ;-) ) but i will get one!!!
It doesnt look much here at all, but when on, it looked lovely! VERY pleased with the outcome indeed..
close up of neckline and shoulder gathers - these werent half difficult! made worse by the fact that the fabric is soo slippery... turn out nice though..
the different coloured beads i put in an earlier post....look good i think! cant really even tell they arent buttons!
.........
So all in all, very happy with myself....and thankfully so was she!
....on to the next project!
Kommentarer
Postat av: MRC
Where did you get that fabric?I love it!
Trackback
