I stopped at the basting. The next step is putting the bodice and skirt together. Gimme a minute. lol
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11.14.2017
Dress Pattern - Butterick 5982 (ongoing project) updated #3
Been pretty busy and fell off the dressmaking project. Started piecing together the skirt. Pretty straightforward, but had to make pleats. Glad I bought these fabric pencils.
I stopped at the basting. The next step is putting the bodice and skirt together. Gimme a minute. lol
I stopped at the basting. The next step is putting the bodice and skirt together. Gimme a minute. lol
9.17.2017
Dress Pattern - Butterick 5982 (ongoing project) updated #2
Constructing the Bodice
After finally cutting out the pieces, the next step was to start piecing them together the bodice, as well as creating darts.
Darts! What are darts? Watch 5 hundred youtube videos on how to sew a dart and you're set!
I'm not quite sure if these darts will suit me best, but I'm just going to follow the pattern and worry about it later. Besides the darts, everything else seemed pretty easy peasy. I just had to repeat my steps for the lining. Then, sew the lining to the fabric right sides together, and turn it right side out.
Putting lining in a dress is twice the work, but its looking more and more like a real dress, you guys.
Other Sewing Things That I Learned While Making this Bodice:
- Staystitching
- Understitching (I didn't know there was so much extra stitching involved in making a dress!)
- Also, as someone with no boobs, I don't need no freaking darts. I mean, I do but not as much. And for that I am thankful. (less work!)
After finally cutting out the pieces, the next step was to start piecing them together the bodice, as well as creating darts.
Darts! What are darts? Watch 5 hundred youtube videos on how to sew a dart and you're set!
I'm not quite sure if these darts will suit me best, but I'm just going to follow the pattern and worry about it later. Besides the darts, everything else seemed pretty easy peasy. I just had to repeat my steps for the lining. Then, sew the lining to the fabric right sides together, and turn it right side out.
Putting lining in a dress is twice the work, but its looking more and more like a real dress, you guys.
Other Sewing Things That I Learned While Making this Bodice:
- Staystitching
- Understitching (I didn't know there was so much extra stitching involved in making a dress!)
- Also, as someone with no boobs, I don't need no freaking darts. I mean, I do but not as much. And for that I am thankful. (less work!)
8.30.2017
Dress Pattern - Butterick 5982 (ongoing project) updated #1
Fabric Choice and Pattern Cutting
So after I finished figuring out the pattern pieces, I had to choose some fabric. I decided since its my first dress, and I had no idea what the hell I was doing, I would pick a fabric that was safe. By safe, I mean something that wasn't too expensive (because what if this dress was an entire fail?) but something that wasn't too crazy (like, I'm not going to buy a discount fabric that had like, owls on it. What if this dress turns out really well but I can't wear it because I hate owls??) So I stuck with a black broadcloth because LBDs are a classic. I found this pink lining in the remnants bin (it turned out to be 70% off and I got a whole yard) and thought pink would be cute, minimal, with a small pop of contrast to the black.
As far as cutting out the pattern pieces, everything was pretty straightforward. I just followed the cutting layout in the instructions, making sure I knew where the grainline and the folds were where they needed to be. I put some painter's tape on the right side of each of the pieces of fabric because when it comes to solid color fabrics, both sides look the same to me.
Mistake #2: I didn't pre-wash my fabric. Meaning, if I ever wash this dress, there's a big possibility that it might shrink. Dammit. Like I literally thought about it right after I cut out ALL the pieces. Luckily, the sizing is a little big, so maybe it will magically shrink perfectly to my size? Oh well. I'm not going stress about it, I'm just going to keep telling myself that this is a learning project and its not a big deal. If this project really does fail, I'm going to buy myself a new dress. :::shrugs:::
Up next: constructing the bodice. :-O
So after I finished figuring out the pattern pieces, I had to choose some fabric. I decided since its my first dress, and I had no idea what the hell I was doing, I would pick a fabric that was safe. By safe, I mean something that wasn't too expensive (because what if this dress was an entire fail?) but something that wasn't too crazy (like, I'm not going to buy a discount fabric that had like, owls on it. What if this dress turns out really well but I can't wear it because I hate owls??) So I stuck with a black broadcloth because LBDs are a classic. I found this pink lining in the remnants bin (it turned out to be 70% off and I got a whole yard) and thought pink would be cute, minimal, with a small pop of contrast to the black.
As far as cutting out the pattern pieces, everything was pretty straightforward. I just followed the cutting layout in the instructions, making sure I knew where the grainline and the folds were where they needed to be. I put some painter's tape on the right side of each of the pieces of fabric because when it comes to solid color fabrics, both sides look the same to me.
Mistake #2: I didn't pre-wash my fabric. Meaning, if I ever wash this dress, there's a big possibility that it might shrink. Dammit. Like I literally thought about it right after I cut out ALL the pieces. Luckily, the sizing is a little big, so maybe it will magically shrink perfectly to my size? Oh well. I'm not going stress about it, I'm just going to keep telling myself that this is a learning project and its not a big deal. If this project really does fail, I'm going to buy myself a new dress. :::shrugs:::
Up next: constructing the bodice. :-O
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