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Jun. 24th, 2008 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212A little over halfway through the summer, and I'm finally making headway on the bridesmaid dress.
I had to scrap my original idea of doing the Fleur Yule Ball gown, as the pattern my housemate had for the corset top that I'd have needed for the understructure of the gown was too complicated and wouldn't have worked well with the smooth top line I'd have needed, or the zipped back.
So instead I'm doing a calf-length princess line dress with a scooped neck, using this pattern, view A, the sleeveless version. And of course, that means that I spent part of this morning and will spend part of the next morning tracing the pattern out so that I can work with it without messing up my housemate's original pattern. This has the side benefit that if I want to reuse the pattern later, say with the long sleeves for Elizabeth's wedding, I'll already have it ready, and know what alterations I'll need.
I'm doing this dress in three layers, the top two being the light green chiffon that I'd already bought for the other dress, and I found a three-dollar-a-yard white cotton for the bottom layer, to give a bit of structure and opacity. When all is said and done I'm hoping for a dress that looks nice for this wedding, but which is usable again as a nice spring/summer dress. I'm thinking this pattern will work for that.
I had to scrap my original idea of doing the Fleur Yule Ball gown, as the pattern my housemate had for the corset top that I'd have needed for the understructure of the gown was too complicated and wouldn't have worked well with the smooth top line I'd have needed, or the zipped back.
So instead I'm doing a calf-length princess line dress with a scooped neck, using this pattern, view A, the sleeveless version. And of course, that means that I spent part of this morning and will spend part of the next morning tracing the pattern out so that I can work with it without messing up my housemate's original pattern. This has the side benefit that if I want to reuse the pattern later, say with the long sleeves for Elizabeth's wedding, I'll already have it ready, and know what alterations I'll need.
I'm doing this dress in three layers, the top two being the light green chiffon that I'd already bought for the other dress, and I found a three-dollar-a-yard white cotton for the bottom layer, to give a bit of structure and opacity. When all is said and done I'm hoping for a dress that looks nice for this wedding, but which is usable again as a nice spring/summer dress. I'm thinking this pattern will work for that.