This past week and a half I've been working on a big job-- not Versailles big, but big enough to keep me busy for a week and a half. Andrea, who has very cute ginger head girls, hired me to make flower girl's dresses for said girls for her sister in law's wedding. It's going to be a fancy-shmancy wedding, and I'd like to think she hired the best around for such a job. The wedding colors are red and gold-- perfect holiday colors-- and the Gingers were lucky enough to get actual SILK dresses since I had this fabric left-over from my unfinished senior project. A seven and three year old in silk? Are we talking about my future children here?
We had a fitting last Saturday, and luckily they fit like a dream. Gingers look great it gold.
The bodice is lined, but since the skirt had an overlay, I figured it would be too heavy with a lining as well. I hand stitched the entire lining to the bodice, which is very therapeutic and extremely non-distracting while watching a movie (or Gilmore Girl's season 6).
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| A completed dress. Mind you, there is a completely non-visible invisible zipper in the back, which I will proudly say that I have mastered. If the Doc ever wanted to give me another test on invisible zippers, I would finally get an A (my first A in sewing test history). |
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| However, I would not get an A on the hand-stitching section of the test with the crow-bar I had to use to do the darn stitches. It was all I could find. It still works and looks great, but thick blunt needles aren't really the easiest things to use for hand-stitching. |
More pictures to come of the actual Gingers wearing the dresses. Last fitting on Saturday.
Mom: I dare you to find any grammatical error or misspelling in the above post. I dare ya!
oooooh! Beautiful work. Can't wait to see both of them! Did you design or follow a pattern?
ReplyDeleteWell....only because you dared me! "Gingers look great IN gold." But you know I think you are perfect regardless of a little grammar boo boo! Technically, this isn't a grammar boo boo just a typo! But YOU dared me! The dress looks beautiful! Like you!
ReplyDeleteI love that design with those colors and that fabric. We used lavender and dark violet silk shantung for our flower girls, and I have to say I was a little bit sad that I didn't get to keep the dresses myself for any future little girls I might get to have. Silk is so delicious, in a non-eating, fabric sort of way. =)
ReplyDeleteOops. It wasn't shantung. It was dupioni. Still delicious.
ReplyDeleteLove those darling little dresses. I can't wait to see them on the girls!
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