Last week's results were neck and neck, the subtle hemline winning out by 6% of the votes. Short it is! Thinking that this dress would be much easier to sew up than it was, I didn't really allot myself much time to make it. I started cutting around 9pm Wednesday night. Big mistake.
Turns out, this fabric is evil. It's cursed or something. I bought it from Michael Levine loft, it was in a crumpled mess, all wrinkled and kinked. I thought that was part of the design. Not the case.
This fabric wrinkles easily and does not iron well. Naturally. It's a synthetic. Usually synthetics are slow to wrinkle though.
As I was cutting out this fabric, I was fighting to keep it from shifting around and kinking. While sewing, I was fighting to keep the edges lined up together.
It was 3:30am before I threw in the towel and went to bed. I had everything done except for the ties, the button hole on the side and a little fit detail I needed to fix on the neckline. It was going to take me another 2 hours before I could call it complete.
I finally finished it today, spending about an hour just ironing out all those kinks. GAH, this stuff is annoying!
On the bright side, I love the color and I love the drape. It flows really nicely as I walk around. I just need to remake this dress in a different fabric. A real silk perhaps? It'd be a lot more expensive. I got this fabric for something like $3-4 for 5 yards. I used about 3 1/2 yards.
Drafting up a pattern for this dress was simple. I shortened the high-low on Megan Nielsen's cascade skirt and I used my basic scoop tee pattern (actually had to draft up a new version since I couldn't find my physical pattern anywhere) for the top. I needed a curved ruler in order to do this. Otherwise it was simple.
If you look really closely, you can see marks from the steam and my iron (it didn't burn or melt the dress, but it did make random marks in some spots).
Outfit Details:
- necklace: Ardor
- dress: handmade
- bangles: thrifted, gifts and c/o Apricot Lane
- earrings: H&M
- shoes: thrifted
I'm looking forward to wearing it to the pool. I also made it long enough so I can wear it out and about as a dress. I love how it turned out despite the nightmare of working with the material. I'll definitely make another one.
Which combination of fabric should I choose for this raglan tee?
@melissapher: Which color scheme? #sewing #fashion #diy
