After getting a bit of a shock as to how high our credit card has become, I decided to not buy a new dress for the wedding a few weekends ago.  Since all of my other dresses didn’t fit me.  Which sucks.

I delved and dived into my fabric stash of sunken costs and decided to make one on the Tuesday night before the wedding.  I had bought a pretty fabric at the warehouse that was a bit stretchy and had a great texture and sheen to it.  It looked quite elegant on the bolt.  I had to line it though, since the fabric pattern has some holes in it, and I found a lightweight brown georgette fabric for that.  Next was what to use for the accent fabric.  I finally decided to cut into this green brocade beauty that I purchased sometime last year.  I had only purchased 1 yard so I have no idea what I intended to do with it for that small of a cut. It took a few nights of working on it to produce this beauty.

The dress looks okay on me – but it looks better on the hanger.  Much better.  I didn’t wear it since it wasn’t exactly pleasing to my figure.  Instead I sucked in my gut and barely got one of my other dresses zipped up, but after almost straining some muscles in the process…it was on me.  I couldn’t breathe too deeply the rest of the night, but at least I had a dress to wear! 😉

That’s the luck you get when trying to make your own clothes – you get winners and losers.  I deviated from the pattern and it was a bit hard to sew.  My serger did not like it one bit and wouldn’t cut it when I was sewing the 4 layers at once.  I have decided that I don’t like sewing with lining – especially a georgette fabric that is slippery.  I think because the fabric is a bit too bulky it just didn’t work for this pattern.  It needs a more flow-y type of fabric that lays flatter.  Dang.  I’m going to try to modify it a bit at somepoint so it doesn’t get thrown in a giveaway pile.  I’ll take out the gathers under the waistband and then reduce the lining.  Then it should look better at least.  A project for a lazy winter weekend…