And one that I won’t be wearing anytime soon. Let me preface this by saying that I really like the dress…just not how it looks on me. Yes, another dress that looks better on the hanger than on my person! It was quite eye opening when I took pictures of myself wearing it. It reiterated the fact that I really need to lose weight. This picture is the best of the bunch. I kept one of them as motivation to stay away from the M&M’s.
This dress started out as just a simple shirred sundress. I was hoping to wear it on the 4th, but it was a bit of a fiasco on it’s first turn. It also took longer than I anticipated. First, it took 5 or 6 bobbins worth of elastic thread, and just sewing that took a bit of time. Then I put the straps in the wrong spot (again I need a dressform!), and had to redo them. I thought it looked a bit plain, so I added two layers of ruffle on the bottom. The long ruffle layers have rolled hems on each side, and I had to ruffle it by hand. Another time consuming task to get them ruffled and even along the hemline.
Next, I thought it needed something else, so I made an obi-style belt for it. It was the first time I made one, and I think I drafted it too wide and too long. It has interfacing on both sides and many rows of stitching of the interior. It was a learning experience, though, and I enjoyed the process.
The fabric of the dress is beautiful and soft, but heavy. I’m not quite sure what type it is, since the fabric is never marked at the warehouse I buy it. It’s a bit frustrating on these occassions. I chose this fabric for the dress due to the weight of it. I knew it wouldn’t puff out like a cotton, and make it look like I was pregnant. Well, too much anyways. I tend to think many of the designs these days have the look of pregancy dresses and shirts. They are nice that they hide the rolls, but seriously…they look like pregnancy garments.
Maybe someday I will actually wear it out of the house. That will be whenever I lose the weight I’ve accumulated over the past two years. I need to get my expanding posterior moving!
I think the dress turned out beautifully and you do not look like you need to lose any weight to me!! I love the ruffles on the bottom.
what?? i think it looks amazing! i’m not sure what “extra” you are talking about! i like the ruffle too – and the fact that it doesn’t look all maternity-ish. it is true so many of the billowy fabrics and styles end up making you look at least 6 months pg. i’m very cautious of that – the last thing i need is someone asking “when are you due?”
Gorgeous Stacy! Gracious, girl, you are such the awesome seamstress 🙂 Seriously, really really awesome!
Hey, I decided today is the day, that I am sending over some of this heat to ya! yeah! Sorry for being so selfish, it’s the least I can do… ;P
Hugs.. Amy
The colors of the fabric really pop.
I think the dress is gorgeous and you look stunning in it !!
I think the ruffles really make it! And what is an obi-belt? Is it like a cummerbund? You’ve certainly chosen the best pic if you think it shows any weight then, because it looks great in that shot! But I know what you mean about these baby doll style dresses, particularly if you have a fuller bust. Some of the young girls who are, not fat but, generously endowed, look ridiculous crammed into these tiny empire line floaty confections. One trip to the races was enough to convince me of that.:-D
Anyway, this turned out really well and the colours suit you too.However, if you have any success with getting into the diety thing, let me know because I am so unmotivated and recently I look like the side of a house. 🙁 Middle age I guess.
Well whats a guy supposed to say without totally puttin his foot in his mouth?????
The dress is very nice and I think you are being a little too harsh on yourself….*grin*
Rach agrees….(phew.)
oh PLEASE! don’t you dare even suggest that you have anything “extra” there as you SO don’t! The dress is adorable, and so you look fab. Love the ruffles and also the shirred bodice.
Personally, I think you look great – so there! 🙂
Stacy, you look great!!! Are those dresses hard to make? I want some precicely because they DO work great as maternity dresses with the shirring stopping further up – to make room for my belly 🙂 Yours is really cute and not maternity looking at all because it’s fitted in the waist!