As for embellishing the purple dress, I think it would look cute with ruffles or bows that are a slightly different shade than the main fabric color. You could do a lighter pink, or a darker purple, and then it would be a little less traditional than base color + white. Or naturally, white always works, of course...
Regarding the seam, I think if I wanted to keep my seam allowances from fraying and I didn't have a serger, I would put binding over them (like quilt binding, or some other kind of bias binding/bias tape). There's also lace seam binding, though I've never actually used it for binding a seam.
And on hiding the wonky stitches, if I wanted to hide them and didn't feel like seam-ripping and redoing, I would put lace trim or maybe ribbon or some other kind of trim over them. Then you're fancying up the dress AND hiding the messy stitching, so it's double-duty trim, right? ;)
Oh, and thanks for saying what patterns you used on these. I'm always curious about which patterns/methods people are using to get a given silhouette or look.
No problem I also find it useful when people mention patterns used. Thanks for your suggestions, I think I will use binding and maybe a ribbon on the other side to cover the stitches.
As for embellishing the purple dress, I think it would look cute with ruffles or bows that are a slightly different shade than the main fabric color. You could do a lighter pink, or a darker purple, and then it would be a little less traditional than base color + white. Or naturally, white always works, of course...
Regarding the seam, I think if I wanted to keep my seam allowances from fraying and I didn't have a serger, I would put binding over them (like quilt binding, or some other kind of bias binding/bias tape). There's also lace seam binding, though I've never actually used it for binding a seam.
And on hiding the wonky stitches, if I wanted to hide them and didn't feel like seam-ripping and redoing, I would put lace trim or maybe ribbon or some other kind of trim over them. Then you're fancying up the dress AND hiding the messy stitching, so it's double-duty trim, right? ;)
Oh, and thanks for saying what patterns you used on these. I'm always curious about which patterns/methods people are using to get a given silhouette or look.
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