I started this project right after I finished the black dress, and I just finished it yesterday with the help of my wonderful Mother, without whom this never would've been possible, AT ALL. Thanks, Mom!!!!
So this one started out as this pattern:
I was using the one that got whited out by the flash... but first I cut out the wrong pattern and ran out of fabric. So that was the second trip to JoAnn's to get more fabric.
Then I made the bodice, the sleeves were a pain, the bodice was pretty easy, then it looked horrible when I got that part done. So I looked at it, dragged it to Mom, complained in a loud tone, she totally understood and complained with me, and then we played with the bodice, nothing worked, and we scrapped it. At least, for a little while. I went searching through the old patterns to see if there was another bodice that would work, and found this old pattern:
And so we went back to JoAnn's and got more fabric. That was the 3rd trip. So I made that bodice, and sure enough, it worked pretty well! Then it was too long, so I took the shoulders up a bit, and that made it fit perfectly. So I started the sleeves... and realized I didn't want the ginormous ones belonging to the pattern, and I didn't want to re-make the other sleeves very much at all. So I looked at the old bodice that turned out so awful, and decided the sleeves could be salvaged. And they were! After Mom remade them, that is...
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Then we did the zipper and a few other things, Mom top stitched and used a nifty hemmer attachment on her machine, and this is it!
And now, I'm not making anymore dresses until I get a few skirts done. I LIKE SKIRTS. SKIRTS DON'T HAVE SLEEVES.
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