purple wood fairy - Part 3

hello everybody,

As mentioned in my previous post, the last weeks are/where rather stressful, I mainly worked on the concept of the collection I have to make this and next year in my School ( post about this will be up soon) . The design process is always pretty intense. but I also made some progress on the fairy dress. I´ll show you that first.


Over the last weeks I made the unserskirt with beige satin. ( I also sewed on the closures of the bodice, but that isn´t that exciting, just hooks/eyes and snaps).

And here is the process of making it, sadly I don´t made that much photos.

But after cutting the fabric I had two seperate pieces, each 1/4 of a circle, they got sewn together to form 1/2 of a circle, one side wasn´t completely sewn shut, I left about 10 cm open.

Then I folded the seam allowance over itself and sewed it down from the inside. so I had two rows of stitching on the outside. Not very pretty, but that didn´t bother me, since it is just a "Petticoat"

The top gets just folded over two times and then  stitched down, no waistband or someting similar. It gets fastened with a long ribbon, that got threaded trough the hemmed top, so the width is adjustable.



From the outside:



The hem was probably the most time consuming thing to do, I made a narrow hem, which is simple, but I needs a bit of efford. First half a cm gets folded over and sewn down, rather close to the edge.



Then the excess material gets trimmed away and the everything gets stitched down again.



The result is a beautiful narrow hem, that just needs a good ironing.



So now back to the bodice, as mentioned before, I sewed in all the closures, which means that the bodice is complete for now.

 Here is  the back, I am really proud that the closures are rather well hidden.

Here are the two pieces worn, I still have a lot of work ahead, but since I have a free week, Progress should be seen soon. (This two strange folds on te bodice will probably be removed too, I will give that a closer look, when I try everything on the next time.)

And before I forget it also doodled the concept for the jewelry that goes with this dress and bought some things for it as well.

thanks for reading, this pretty short post.

I hope you enjoyed it anyway:)