The quick and dirty muslins have been adjusted and revamped. (Just to let you know if you are attempting this dress- I had to do alterations on 9 pattern pieces. That was not including the lining which I still have to alter. Oh my goodness- and I thought this was a nice “simple” dress!)
Tonight I finally had an evening alone and at home.
Perfect, I thought to myself. An hour or two and this baby will be cut out and ready to sew…That was at 7pm. It is now past midnight and I am still not done! I know why this dress is rated advanced- your brain has to be at an advanced stage of atropy to think it is easy!!
Pattern pieces- 28
Number of pieces needing underlining – 11
Total number of pieces one needs to cut out -I think 60
60!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To add insult to injury, I got bored with all the cutting and handbasting underlining to fabric and thought I would run a few pieces through the machine.
Umm…
UMMMMM…
My machine- a Husky which has not given me even one hiccup in 5 or so years of running continuously, won’t go. Hey, I sound like a petulant 5 year old- “won’t go”!!! I really hope the electrical storms that went though yesterday did not affect it.
I’m too tired to look at it anymore tonight…tomorrow is another day.
Today’s postscript…
We are starting to think about a wedding dress for Daughter #1 – Erica. She has given me these inspiration pictures. The bodice is what we are really trying to create. I think! It is actually a double bodice. There is the regular bodice, then a shirred or pleated layer over top. Finding a suitable base pattern may prove impossible. Thank goodness I have 11 months 10 months.
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Oh dear, I am glad I did not fall in love with that RR design!! And I hope your machine plays nice today
Amazing! I attended a formal wedding last Saturday and the mother of the groom was wearing that same bodice, in pink. She looked fabulous in it. She’s very tall and slender (and fairly young…)
I had the greatest urge to ask her if I could take a look at how the bodice was constructed…. lol
Hope your machines is going to work again. This sounds like quite a complicated project.
Beautiful bodice to that first dress. The top of this Burda pattern looks a bit like that:
You did make a deal with your daughters about marriage dates? So that you won’t have to sew more than 1 a year?
http://www.burdafashion.com/en/Patterns/Main_Collection/8057_Wedding_dress/1270778-1128998-1005430-1314310.html
Yikes! That sounds like quite a project! 60 pieces…
Oooh, another wedding dress! I can’t wait to watch as this one is born!
I agree that it looks like it will need an underbodice. The second dress doesn’t have one and you can see how much less structured, less supportive, and more wrinkled it it.
From some review I read on PR, I got the idea that the Birth of a Bustier CD has information on this. There was a Threads article many many many years ago by a woman who had worked in a french couturier on how to do it, but I have only a vague memory.
It looks beautiful. I think after the Rucci dress you’ll think a bustier’s a breeze.
Yowzers mom, be careful! You never know who might click over here and see these pics! (cough D cough)
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