Monday, 11 August 2014

Playing with the good fairy dress

Me and Auntie Em had a play day! I had made a skirt (rectangle and elastic waist) from part of the coffee coloured sari for the good fairy dress which I showed in a previous post.  I then sat there with bits of lace and fabric, pinning them on and trying them out to see what looked good.  I really wasn’t satisfied and then had a moment of inspiration and sewed a layer of tulle over the top of the sari.

It was one of those grrrr moments when I realised the tulle was just a couple of inches short of going round the skirt waist.  I then set to pinning all those bits of lace and fabric on again and it still wasn’t working as I was now trying to cover up the gap.  Then Auntie Em turned up complete with two bags of lace and she did the same as me.  This went on for nearly two hours, pinning, tutting, unpinning.  Then Auntie Em had her own moment of inspiration and suggested turning the skirt and making a feature of the gap instead of trying to hide it.


A lovely bit of lace was soon sewn to the edges and we put some gold leaves and butterflies on.  We left it there as we were going to measure up our ‘Belle’ and didn’t sew any of the bits on, I don’t know if this is how the end product will be or not but it was a fun afternoon!  The top is just the sari end draped over the dummy to give the finished effect as we don’t have the measurements to make the top yet!

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