SPP - Final Pictures

The next few posts will just be old entries from livejournal that I am bringing over to this blog

I finally finished the dress, I wasn't sure if I was going to make it.
We went out today and took a ton of pictures.  It was very sunny out, but they turned out pretty good.  Someday I would love to go to a historical mansion and get some period style pictures. 

Making this dress has been so much fun I hope I took enough pictures to show you all everything.
Here they are, Enjoy!!!


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SPP More inspiration and starting my dress pt 2

The next few posts will just be old entries from livejournal that I am bringing over to this blog

While toying with the whole decorating idea, I found that I really love peplums and little overskirts.  Like these.



And of course my favorite Worth dress of all time has a peplumed over bodice, and it became my main inspiration


Here is my first mock up of the overbodice.  On the final one I ended up making the bottom much fuller.  But all in all I really liked the look of it.

SPP - More inspiration, and starting my dress.

The next few posts will just be old entries from livejournal that I am bringing over to this blog

Now that my undies and my mock up were done, I kept trying to figure out how to make my dress.  I had found the most beautiful black shot copper taffeta, and a corresponding heavy, gold satin, and I just couldn't figure out what to do.  I started out with the idea of a fall inspired dress with embroidered leaves and I went so far as to embroider some of the leaves.  I also made several yards of  bias tubing out of the gold fabric to try making branches out of.  When it came time however to start decorating the skirt, I started pinning the tubing around and found a completely new idea that I just fell in love with....... So with out further ado here is my test that I fell in love with.



Of course I couldn't leave it that simple!!