Moving along...

Happy Tuesday evening :)

In my last post, I introduced you to the dress of my dreams and promised to give you more about how I got started making it, so here it is: 

The first thing I thought about when I decided to make my dress was the fact that I should do a mock up dress first. I went to buy cheap fabric and ended up walking out with $70.00 worth of nice fabric. I did not want to use my nice fabric for the mock up so popped some tags at value village (seriously, I love that place!) 

I bought a giant moo-moo like dress that had plenty of usable fabric and started practicing:

This fabric was silky and pretty tough to work with. At this point I wasn't sure if I wanted to gather the fabric or pleat it so I tried both.

I don't have a picture of the gathered fabric because I ripped ou tthe stitches after gathering this piece so that I could try pleating it. When I gathered the fabric, it did not hang the way I wanted. Here is what it looked like as I pleated it

I was too lazy to finish pleating it because the material was so slippery. I decided to move on to the nice fabric because I really wanted to know for sure what that material would look like pleated and gathered. 

As you can see above, I started to pleat my white fabric and decided against finishing it because I didn't like the way it looked sooo...

I tried gathering it. You can see in the picture above that I didn't just do a straight line of stitches down the sides because I want the dress to be fitted so ideally there would be one princess seam down the back at the zipper. 

This is what it looked like when I pinned the trial version onto my dress form. By the way if you need a tutorial on gathering I can help! Although there are already a million out there so you could also just ask google or youtube.

I decided gathered was absolutely the way to go and I started on the actual dress (so much for a mock up!) More on this later!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!