finally!

I am on the brink of completing my wedding dress.  A little work on the hem and then tacking down the ruffles a little so they don’t flap up in the wind and I’m good to go.  I am going to wait until after the wedding to post about the dress, but I should be talking about neckties next week and flower girl dresses the week after that!  That’s my schedule, anyways… we’ll see if I can keep it. I can’t afford to slack off because the wedding is less than 5 weeks away.  It’ll be nice once these projects are over so I can relax a little!

Sneak preview because I can’t resist…

eh- the rehearsal dinner dress

The dress you saw in the last post didn’t turn out so great.  I have a bad habit of rushing when working on projects for myself and cutting corners.  First problem- I accidentally dyed the silk lavender instead of orangy-peachy-pink.  After deciding to go along with it, I had a really difficult time sewing in the lining and the zipper didn’t turn out so great either.  I could have avoided all these things, but I rushed and didn’t plan well.  As a result…

Here’s the dress on the form.  The bubble hem didn’t work well because I cut the lining too short, so this is unhemmed.  It’s also not very boatnecky.

Front view after I hemmed it.  I burned the edges then attached the body to the lining at 4 points, making it a quarter bubbley or so.  I’m inventing plenty of words right now.

Side view… Here you can see many of the reasons why I’m unhappy- I stretched the back neck out and the zipper doesn’t lay nicely.

Finally, the only decent way to wear it- half covered!  I don’t like the high neck with the sweater over it but I won’t wear it by itself.  Maybe I’ll throw a t-shirt over it and call it a day.

I promise myself to not rush on any other projects.  At least I think it looks prettier in motion than it does when I stand still.  The next big finale will be the wedding dress.  The end!