I know I have plenty of dresses that I hardly wear, aside from the one shoulder dress I made last summer they are either ill fitting or not the most flattering.
But, a bold floral fabric isn’t appropriate for a fall wedding. (at least in my opinion) and as I said when I traced and altered the pattern, I want to try new techniques.
I grabbed scraps of fabric from my one shoulder dress.
I pinned the pattern and cut out the fabric.
Then I sewed it as if I was making the original pattern. (Simplicity 1606)
I pinned in a zipper so I could try it on.
After a few additional changes it fit well but wasn’t the most flattering. Maybe it was the fact that it was only the bodice, maybe it was my petite chest and long torso or the fact that my stomach is NOT well toned.
But I have time to figure it out. At least it looks like boning won’t be as hard as I thought.
always time to procraftinate 