Hello lovely hivers
Welcome to my blog, hope your day is going great. Today, I will like to share with us the making process of this beautiful dress I made, a few weeks ago, I shared a post about the challenges I faced making this dress and tips on how to overcome them, today, I will be sharing a detailed DIY on how to achieve this design. If sewing is what interest you or you have a passion for art generally, you will find this process inspiring, so stay tuned.
The dress style is a princess bustier, with a yoke also a straight gown with puffy sleeves, within is an inbuilt corset as the dress is meant to give a snatched waist effect. I successfully snatched the waist of the owner of the dress, a friend of mine from 28 to 24 inches.
without further ado, let's get straight into the making process
Materials/ Tools used
- Damask fabric
- Satin fabric
- Regiline boning
- Matching thread
- Skin net
- eyelets
- Zipper
- Warden
- interfacing
And of course my tape rule, sewing machine, and scissors.
PROCESS
- To start with, I drafted my pattern, starting with the front pattern, the yoke of the upper pattern was achieved using a skin net.
- here is my back pattern, like the front part, it also has a yoke made with the skin net as well
- I drafted the base of the gown as well, for both the front and back.
Note that all these patterns are also replicated using the satin fabric
- Next, I joined the front patterns together of both the damask and satin fabric,
- Continuing, I sewed the boning to the satin fabric, this is to help in the waist snatching,
- Next, to the back pattern, I made an extra pattern that is going to have a lacing as the main fabric will use a zipper. I attend the boning to this extra pattern and turned all together with its lining fabric and joined both front and back together.
- Now, for the sleeves pattern, I cut out a normal basic sleeve pattern and a bogus sleeve, to achieve the puffy sleeve, I gathered the bogus sleeve to the normal sleeve.Finally, I attached the puff sleeves to the bodice of the gown.
To enhance it more, I tacked rhinestones to the chest and the waist.
And here is the final look.
Please note, all images used in this post are mine, except otherwise stated.