Burgundy Dress
Sometime early this summer, I begin to have longings for an ultra feminine dress. One that was frilly and even pink in parts. I wanted something that screamed GIRL as loudly as it could. So I spent the summer eying fabric stores and seeing what there was to see. I happened to mention my idea for this GIRL dress to a friend who's wife does costuming for the local youth theater. As they are the local youth theater, they get donations of upholstery fabric remnants from a local furniture store. Now, evidently the theater does not get much call for burgundy fabric, which fit into my plans for the GIRL dress nicely. My timing was perfect, because they had recently gotten a bunch of burgundy fabric and they had more fabric than plans. They also received a beautiful piece of patterned burgundy fabric.
The dress I chose to make is a dress that is modeled after a dress worn in a portrait by Maria de Medici. The dress is in my user icon. I thought that this was a very beautiful style of dress and I could fit the fabric that I had to make it work. I was also lucky enough to find a lovely pink at a local fabric store that will be perfect for my forepart.
I am using a pattern from Margo Anderson to make the dress. The patterns were on the expensive side, but well worth it when you consider the pages and pages of documentation that come with it.
This is all three fabrics together that will make up the main part of the dress.
Here is a close up picture of just the pink.
Here is a close up picture of the burgundy patterned fabric that I will be cutting up to use for trim.
And here is a closer picture of the burgundy.
I have various other fabrics for the smock, corset and partlet that will make appearences throughout the updating of the progress on this dress. I am hoping to start the smock on Tuesday and I am planning to cheat to give the appearence of blackwork by using a decorative sewing machine stitch on the cuffs and collar. I know, it's cheating, but if you saw my embroidery, you'd understand why I'm choosing to do so. I think the biggest challenge that this dress will provide to me will be the sewing of the pearls. I plan to sew a pearl into each flower of the pink. Luckily I'm only using the pink for the forepart, but I still think that by the time I'm done I will never want to see another pearl. My goal for this dress is to be done by the beginning of December.
The dress I chose to make is a dress that is modeled after a dress worn in a portrait by Maria de Medici. The dress is in my user icon. I thought that this was a very beautiful style of dress and I could fit the fabric that I had to make it work. I was also lucky enough to find a lovely pink at a local fabric store that will be perfect for my forepart.
I am using a pattern from Margo Anderson to make the dress. The patterns were on the expensive side, but well worth it when you consider the pages and pages of documentation that come with it.
This is all three fabrics together that will make up the main part of the dress.
Here is a close up picture of just the pink.
Here is a close up picture of the burgundy patterned fabric that I will be cutting up to use for trim.
And here is a closer picture of the burgundy.
I have various other fabrics for the smock, corset and partlet that will make appearences throughout the updating of the progress on this dress. I am hoping to start the smock on Tuesday and I am planning to cheat to give the appearence of blackwork by using a decorative sewing machine stitch on the cuffs and collar. I know, it's cheating, but if you saw my embroidery, you'd understand why I'm choosing to do so. I think the biggest challenge that this dress will provide to me will be the sewing of the pearls. I plan to sew a pearl into each flower of the pink. Luckily I'm only using the pink for the forepart, but I still think that by the time I'm done I will never want to see another pearl. My goal for this dress is to be done by the beginning of December.