This dress is starting to send me insane now and it forever feels like it is one step forward and two back and that sometimes I am going around in circles and never seem to get any where lol. I do something and then it is wrong so have to un do it and then re do it again !!! Arrgghh But hopefully it will all be worth it in the end as I want a garment that I can be proud of and that I know is well made and made to the best of my ability !!
The current list of problems that need rectifying are as follows : -
- My first neck piece was hideous I had sandwiched net within the chiffon to give it more of a rigid look. However it ended up looking like something a clown would wear !!
Solution was to use lots of layers of chiffon that had been gathered up and sewn together the edges have also been left raw to give it a softer look and feel.
- Second was the cut outs in the side panel I had top stitched around the edges, which didn't look nice and isn't how a couture garment would be made.
Solution was to get rid of the facings to reduce bulk at the hip and then hand stitch in the panels so it did not pull and distort the dress fabric at the curved sections.
Solution to un pick the hem make a binding for the hem bind the hem in the same fabric and then hand stitch it up with an invisible stitch so it can not be seen to give it more of a couture look.
- CHIFFON IS NOT THE SAME FABRIC AS NET !!
Solution to learn my lesson and use the nearest possible fabrics when toiling a garment so the fabric will act in the same way when the garment is made. The tu tu section at the bottom of the dress when first created looked horrible and flat as I had constructed it in that same way as I had with the net. To rectify this I had to make sure I put a lot more ruffles and gathering into the chiffon to give it more of a volumous look.
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