Creations with Nicole: You live and you learn...

Keeping up with Nicole

In my last post I gave some tips for working with slippery fabric and showed you my stay stitches. Since then I have made quite a bit of progress with a few mistakes(which is to be expected from me!)

After I did stay stitches on three sides of the large rectangle of fabric, I measured the top, middle, and bottom of the fabric and pinned where I would start my gathers. As I have mentioned before, I want my dress to be perfectly form fitting so the lines I stitched for the gathers were curvy (Top and bottom are wider to match my chest and hip size.)

When you want to do gathers it is always best to use the longest straight stitch on your machine so that it is easy to pull the thread through. You also want to remember not to back stitch at all and you need at least two rows of stitches to gather.

I had to be extra careful about holding the fabric in place so that the organza wouldn't slip (it did of course my dress will not be perfect!)

After I put two lines of long straight stitches in I pulled the bottom thread and scrunched the fabric (that is the best description I can give at the moment but there are a ton of tutorials online if you are confused.)

AND...

Vuala! Tis finished!

The gathering part is anyway!

Now the real fun begins.. Lining and zipper!

I measured my lining the same way I measured the outer part of the dress so that it will be fitted and it will fit with the outer part.

And then I cut it and here is what it looked like folded in half!

After cutting it, I attache the lining to the dress but I just can't find energy to keep explaining (Sorry!) It will have to be done tomorrow or perhaps this weekend. Until then have beautiful dreams and sunny days! Thanks for reading!

Side Note: Check out this snappy little thing I made in a hurry the other day because I needed a way to carry keys for work and something to hide my butt so it doesn't get stared at in leggings haha!