Emergency! A sartorial turmoil has arisen. I sewed a Junior Prom dress for my niece last year and also this year, she bought a dress. She brought it to me for alteration and I told her it would be less difficult to start more than from scratch.
cheap wedding dress She is a dream to operate with! We quickly negotiated the design and I will use the purchased dress as guidance with sizing. It would fit her if it had a 1.5 inch FBA. There will be no muslin (there is no time) so it will be basted together, fitted once, and then finished. You can see the dress on the cutting table here and I will article a summary of the project with more pictures later.
For now, I thought I'd display you my sewing room in Baltimore. It took me FOREVER to learn to make use of the space there. OK, that is an exaggeration, but it took a entire year to learn where the ideal light was, how the road noises affected my rest and all that sort of thing. It turns out I use the little bedroom as a sewing room also it is very comfortable now.
After some trial and error, I figured out that my at minimum requirements are:
* a large cutting table - this dresser is the perfect height using a hollow core door on top and legs from IKEA
* a TV for my beloved Netflix
* I can't stand to sew facing a wall.
Back when hubby and I decided to maintain a crashpad close to my job, I had the illusion that I'd be at the sewing machine by 6pm every night and generating at super-human levels. I did not mind buying an additional sewing machine, and I have all the basic notions. But - I have been very reluctant to duplicate anything I really need. For example, I don't possess a serger at the apartment. The hardest part is the stash. This
cheap prom dress is a perfect example - I have the perfect powernet (mesh material used in groundwork garments) for the cups with the bodice. I possess a large amount of black nylon tricot for the lining. It is all in Rockville! If I had my supplies, I could have this dress finished by Friday. It really is just a long, lined knit dress using a swimsuit type of bodice. I am using spandex that looks a lot like satin, just like the purchased dress. Fitting is not this kind of an issue as long as there is sufficient protection with the FBA department. It is not that hard, you know? Heck, the hem is a rolled-edge serged hem.
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