I worked on the dress again today… what dress, you ask? The one Susette sent me a picture of and then Marilyn suggested I try and copy. I’m always up for a challenge, so let the fun begin. To refresh you… here is the picture of the beautiful young girl in the dress…
There really isn’t much to go on… but I knew the fabric needed to be something soft and lightweight and easy to press pleats into.
I decided to make my pattern piece like a surplice front (cross over) and pin the pleats in place randomly. I tried HARD not to make them exactly straight or even between each one, but someone they didn’t end up looking as haphazard as I had hoped they would…
Here are the two fronts…
I lined them and finished off the top shoulder seam so it didn’t show and then finished down the back…
I thought the sleeve ruffle looked a little too wide, so I took it off and made one smaller.
Then I took the sleeve and tried again to pin it in the sleeve cap haphazardly again turning the gathers into pleats.
This is what the 2 fronts and backs look like…
The fabric is really nice to work with…very soft, very lightweight and easy to manipulate… so this is a first glance at the bodice on Nellie…
I decided to make the dress just below the waist because I’m going to make some kind of sash or apron and wanted my gathers to be slightly lower than right at the waist…
My pictures were taken almost at midnight, so they are a little washed out… I might have to change the backdrop to the wood window or something else because the dress kind of gets lost next to this white background.
My sleeves ended up being just a bit larger than I had hoped they would look. I thought with the pleats in them it would be like darts and take up space in how wide they appeared, but they still flared out more than I liked. In the end, I decided not to take out the sleeves a second time. I had already serged the edges and decided to leave them alone.
Here is the back… all neatly finished on the inside and ready for snaps…It’s not hemmed yet…
I’ve already held up a few pieces of fabric I have for the sash or apron or overskirt, whatever I end up doing… and I think this will look very cute… I’m hoping to copy the whole picture if I can… (You know what that means… accessories!) :o)
Well, so far it wasn’t that hard… let’s see how I do on the bottom half… :o)
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
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