It has been a while since I posted, that is because I
was busy working on my final design project. I didn’t do anything else than
work on that one assignment for over a month so I didn’t sew anything for a
while. But now I’m officially a master in the architecture. I was so happy to
have the time to sew again and deiced to make my graduation dress. But then
life happened (read sleep deprived) and I was left with only 3 days to make the
dress. I bought the fabric on Wednesday and the graduation ceremony was on
Saturday at 10 am.
I had my mind set on a silk dress, in 3 days I know. They
had a few options in the store and of course I chose the very thin flowy
option. They had a few thicker options but I didn’t like the prints that much
and a few cotton and silk blends. I love the fabric it is so beautiful, soft
flowy and I love the print. But the best thing is 20 euro the meter, for 100%
silk, a bargain compared to the lining, antistatic and nice to wear but 10 euro
the meter.
Okay enough praise for the fabric now the pattern, I
wasn’t going to cut into my beautiful fabric without knowing if my dress was
going to fit. So I made the June dress form la maison victor again, you can see
the first version here. Because the silk is transparent I was worried about the
seam finishes. I tried overlocking the silk but that was not as neat as I wanted
it to be. So I finished it with French seams, I think it is so weird that they
are called French seams in English because they are called English seams in
Dutch.
The pattern is not actually made for transparent fabrics because it
doesn’t have a lining. I made the front and the back of the dress in silk and
lining. Once these were finished I pined the silk to the lining and used them
as if they were one fabric. I didn’t want to underline the entire dress because
then it would not show the flow of the silk anymore. The reason why I pined
them together is because I thought it would be nearly impossible to insert a
zipper in the silk. The neckline and straps were finished with facings.
Needless to say I was hemming my dress at 11pm the day
before the ceremony, but it was worth it!
PS. Some of you might have realized that I never
posted the second half of me made May. I just wore the same items as in the
first half and I thought it would be a bit boring to take the same crappy
selfies and was too busy to come up with something more interesting.
