Ugh, the finishing on this dress makes me want to wear a potato sack to this wedding...ok I wouldn't actually, but I was about two stitches short of just wearing my LBD. Here's the break down of what happened. If you read Monday's post I was finishing up the neckline which when I was finished sewing it looked like I had sewn it with out my contacts in. So my one day of finishing turned into two days of hand sewing.
On Monday I finished the arm holes and the neck line. At first I had resigned myself to hand sewing these, but then I thought the actual pattern calls for it to be machine sewed it will be faster and look just fine. I was incorrect in this thinking.
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| Here's the "wrong side of the neckline" |
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| A shot of the right side of the dress |
On Tuesday I finished the Obi belt and am extremly happy with how this came out. I think this part of the project has inspired a tutorial for latter either this month or the next. The duponi silk was a dream to sew!
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| This belt is super long. It measures about 134 inches |
And now with one day left I am on to my second round of hand knitting the hem. I am so close to being done I can taste it. The dress is about 50% hand sewn. I don;t see that as a bad thing as all of the hand sewing was for the finishing.
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| Here's my hem line all pinned and ready for hand sewing. | |
But after that I will be finished. No more alterations, no more seam ripping and resewing. I tried the dress on with out the belt yesterday, to get the right hem line and I am in love with this dress. I am going to make a second in a wool for the winter, and maybe even one in a cotton for the spring!
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