Tag: topstitching

Dress Update, week 2

Marie Haigh5 Comments

The lining for Elly’s dress is finished!

The bodice was made with a medium weight cotton. The skirt was made with a lightweight polyester lining fabric.

Despite the fact that nobody outside the few who read this blog will see the inside of the dress, I took the time to hand baste in the skirt sections and to topstitch with the fancy flower motif. One day, she may want to wear the dress inside out.

Now she can.

Update: Dan mentioned that the inside of the dress resembled a Snow White dress. So, you might be looking at Elly’s Halloween outfit. What do you think?

Dress Progress

Marie Haigh4 Comments

Although the taffeta fabric is gorgeous, it is persnickety to work with. It is constantly slipping about. Coupled with the underlining, it feels like I’m working with bullet-proof material.

The other issue is that the pattern I’m using for Elly’s dress has no straight edges. Every edge is a curve. So, like inserting a sleeve, I have to ease in each and every piece of fabric. It takes time.

Despite hand-basting all the seams before I sew them on the sewing machine, I’ve made some minor errors. Rather than rip them all back, I plan to hide them as best as possible and just hope nobody notices. Or if someone does notice, she minds her manners and says not a word.

For the first time since buying this fancy sewing machine, I’m using the decorative stitches. When topstitching, I am using a flower motif for the stitch and a gold thread so it pops on the dress.

I love the results.

Almost no progress has been made on my dress. Elly’s dress is more important in my book, since she is the flower girl. So, I’m trying to finish her dress first. I’d say I’m about a 1/4 of the way done on her dress. It’s coming together nicely despite all my complaints above. The end justifies the means.