More Dress Pieces

This is the coat that goes over the dress to hide my bountious upper arms and you-gly chest. It isn't finished quite yet (looks weird hanging over the lining too). I still need to finish the raw edges of the front and hem. For that I have the fun of making my own binding (shoot me now). The great part is I remembered how to do the invisible seaming that I learned about 40 years ago!

Can you spot the seam?

That's done - on to the rest

Okay, I've recut all the pieces to the lining and so it now looks like this:


I haven't cut the dress material yet, I needed to cut the "coat" pieces first. The removable overlayer is made of this:


The idea I had for the secret detail to the dress will work! The thought into solid form started like this:

Dress - back to the cutting board

So here's the problem, the bottom is way too full:




The quick fix is recut the pattern on 3 of the panels to take out the fullness. The correct fix is to combine 2 side panels into one and recut the whole flipping armhole thing. argh. decisions decisions.

The Dress - the beginning

Making the pattern, first pass, which is basically just slapping scrap material together and writing all over it:


Making the pattern, second pass, contouring the pieces:



Third pass:



Trying it out on similar weight material, draw on it, open it up and slap it on leftover Christmas tissue paper:


First cut!!! This is the lining, this is the color, which doesn't translate well but look at a grey scroll bar on your screen, that's it.