On the Tenth Day of Ellee
My mother made for me
A Lacy Ruffled Sleeved Dress,
and a Turquoise Dress fitted to me.
I believe this dress might have been my most challenging yet! It's all because of the lining that was underneath this cute little sundress, separated from top lining and bottom lining. I ran into a problem because I didn't feel I could just sew over the top of the lining along with the fabric. It just wouldn't give the clean finished effect that I get when I sew the lining separately. Well, I shouldn't have listened to myself, because it ended up looking messy on the underneath and guess what? Ellee doesn't even care anyway! So, I digress....
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| pinning to Ellee's body |
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| Pinning to Ellee's body |
The challenge was to make this size large, lined dress to fit little framed Ellee. Not only that, but it was strapless, so you knew I would need to figure out some sort of sleeve. Now, this particular outfit was not going to lend the flexibility of extra fabric quite like the Chevron dress had that we sewed earlier in the series.
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| Sewing off the pockets on the bottom half. |
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| The pockets cut off. Now to mess with lining. |
So, while I sewed the sides in on this dress, after fitting them to Ellee's body, I took inventory of my supplies and decided upon some lace that has been sitting in my stockpile for years. Although it was a little much for my tastes, Ellee loved it because it was ruffly and lacy, the things she loves most! So, I went with it.
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| piece of lace I found in my stash |
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| sewing on the seam tape by folding it in half. |
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| The finished ruffle |
This particular lace already had a gathering stitch in it, so I pulled that to the tightness that I wanted the sleeves to be and I sewed a straight stitch over some seam tape (that I also already had), folding the seam tape in half with the gathered stitch in between. It worked perfect to create the ruffle with not adding too much of a strap that everyone could see.
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| Ironically, fitting the sleeves so you can't see her bra. |
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| Ironically, fitting the sleeves to the front of dress so you can't see her bra. |
Next, I fitted the gathered lace into the right place on the tops of the dress, then sewed the lace edges in place. She loved the sleeves and I loved that I couldn't see her bra straps:)
It's only taken me four days, but I wanted to say Happy New Year to all my current readers. I have found my nitch in something I enjoy and I have so much fun sharing my "artwork" with you! If you think about it, leave me a comment here and there and maybe a like and follow on Facebook (posted under Just Five More Minutes of Grace, my other blog page) and make my day! God bless! Angie
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