This dress is turning into quite the project.
I'm cutting a few corners and still tweaking as I go but I don't want to cut so many that I don't want to wear the dress, so it's still getting full facings, finished seams, etc. I started by lengthening the bodice by one inch in the back (which was a bit shorter than the front):
. . . and three-quarters of an inch in the front, which simultaneously fixed the high bust-dart problem . . .
. . . applied white rick-rack trim, which makes the whole dress remind me of gingerbread cookies . . .
. . . the neck facing is thick muslin. The pattern said to just use a bias strip but I actually cut pattern pieces. I cut these down a little so I could whipstitch them over the sewing line left by the rick-rack, so the stitches wouldn't show on the other side . . .
. . . the pattern said to face the armscyes with bias strips, too. I just used commercial bias tape. This is where it really looks like a fitting muslin: I topstitched the armscyes twice. I didn't think there was enough seam allowance in the half-inch bias tape to hold, so I topstitched it on both edges. It looks makeshift, but oh, well.
I'm cutting a few corners and still tweaking as I go but I don't want to cut so many that I don't want to wear the dress, so it's still getting full facings, finished seams, etc. I started by lengthening the bodice by one inch in the back (which was a bit shorter than the front):
. . . and three-quarters of an inch in the front, which simultaneously fixed the high bust-dart problem . . .
. . . applied white rick-rack trim, which makes the whole dress remind me of gingerbread cookies . . .
. . . the neck facing is thick muslin. The pattern said to just use a bias strip but I actually cut pattern pieces. I cut these down a little so I could whipstitch them over the sewing line left by the rick-rack, so the stitches wouldn't show on the other side . . .
. . . the pattern said to face the armscyes with bias strips, too. I just used commercial bias tape. This is where it really looks like a fitting muslin: I topstitched the armscyes twice. I didn't think there was enough seam allowance in the half-inch bias tape to hold, so I topstitched it on both edges. It looks makeshift, but oh, well.
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