Black Dress Coming Together

[sarahmichelef]

Last night I sewed the shoulder seams and put on the neckline facings.  The shoulder seams are reinforced with seam tape to keep them from stretching; the neckline relies on the facings to keep them from stretching.  If it's a problem, I'll be able to go back in and apply seam tape there as well.  Unlike the other seams on the dress so far, I did these with a straight stitch. The combination of the two (straight and pretend overlock) may come back to bite me later if my seam allowances don't match up.  But I have faith that I'll be able to make it work.  :^D

Anyway,

Dress back, draped and pinned on the dressform.


Back detail - that's the fiddly join in the middle.  It's kind of dented in and lying funny because that's where the gap between the plates of the form is.


The front, draped & pinned.  The dress form is currently bigger than me, but I'm too lazy to set it since I'm not using it for fitting.

Gathering detail, just because I like the bright colors against the black background.

Comments

[nalyirri.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very pretty! I'm impressed!

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I believe that if you can follow directions, you can sew. There are techniques that you have to learn, but they're not hard. But really it's just a matter of going slowly and being willing to rip things out and try again.

Which is to say, nothing to be impressed about.

[nalyirri.livejournal.com]

I made C some pajama pants for christmas last year and did come to understand the "if you can follow directions, you can sew" idea - but that didn't stop me from staring at them and thinking, wow, I made that! So even if it's not obviously innate genius that lets you create such things (though I do think there's a certain inherent skill in being patient enough to follow the directions right) - I still get to be impressed : )