This might be like opening a can of worms for me and I might be more confused than I am right now. Then again, maybe you’ll all agree and it will be an easy fix.
Here’s my problem… when I got Maryellen, I thought, “Oh, I know the 50’s styles… I was a 50’s baby and have lots of pictures of the dresses from the 50’s.” How hard could it be to figure out how to make Maryellen’s debut dress? So I looked on Ebay at 1950’s girls dress patterns and got LOTS of ideas… and put together this idea from all the things I had looked at.
This was actually my inspiration picture…
…and this was my basic dress without any embellishing…
Yep, that’s how I wanted my dress for Maryellen to look… trouble is…when I tried making a pattern for the capelet, it was a BEAR!! Trying to get the scallops to come out even and then lay over her shoulders was harder than I thought…I tried patterns with paper towels, with denim, just paper…
…and then finally decided to just go for it out of the fabric… and this is what it looked like…
The fabric and felt are beautiful together…
(Now, I must tell you, all my buttons and ribbons and ties and belts and embellishments are just pinned on and aren’t tied in perfect bows or laid straight or cut off, but are just there to give you a hint of what it would look like. The close up pictures are much lighter than the full view ones. The fabric and wool felt goes together beautifully!)
I was questioning it myself, so I asked for Rebecca’s opinion…and she said, “Uh…no…) so I was deflated…and wanted to give up and throw it in the trash…but I didn’t.
So I came back and looked at more pictures and saw a few more little capelets…and wondered if mine was just wrong because it was a different color than the fabric of the dress… or maybe it was too long? or maybe it needed to be edge stitched along the edges…
I was so confused, I decided to make Maryellen’s slip and socks and find her some shoes…
Then it was back to the dress again… here are some ideas I thought “might” work…
Just put a piece of trim from side hip to side hip and tie a bow at the end…
Or maybe make a belt out of some brown Ultrasuede and add a little buckle to it…
I could add an orangish rayon ribbon and tie it in a bow around her waist…
…or a taupe-like rayon ribbon…
I found a cute picture of how I could make a vest from the wool felt. My picture just shows the wool felt turned like a vest would be, but I didn’t actually cut out a vest…
Maybe it just needed buttons on the midriff section like this dress…
…or maybe it needed a ribbon tie under the collar along with the buttons on the mid section…
My cutting table was a disaster as I had just about every piece of trim that might possibly work on the table…
Anyone have any suggestions? I could use some help…
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
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De: I Dream of Jeanne Marie - https://idreamofjeannemarie.com/2020/11/05/help-im-struggling-on-how-to-finish-maryellens-dress/
Fecha: November 05, 2020 at 03:00AM
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