Well, I decided what I wanted to make with it last night and tackled it this morning after our school time! I decided to try the one hour dress tutorial that I found online. It took me a little under 1.5 hours to make it! It was very simple to make and now that I know what I am doing I know I can do it again in an hour or less!
Here is the finished dress in the two belts I thought I would try to use with it. I couldn't decide what looked best but I am really leaning towards the black belt.
I definitely want to try this pattern again! But when I do I am going to make some changes. I followed the tutorial pretty much to the letter this time around but next time I am going to do a few things different.
1. The tutorial says to make the left shoulder (as you are viewing the front of the dress) side 3 inches in length. Well I felt this was too short after I finished. In fact if you look at the picture of the dress on the tutorial page it is obvious that dress has more than a 3 inch length on that left shoulder. I believe it needs to be the same 6 inch length that you gather the right shoulder side up to. Thankfully the dress looks ok with kind of a aysmetrical look of the two shoulders being different lengths, but I really think it would look better if they were the same length (more like what they are in th picture on the tutorial).
2. I will not make my neck hole as wide. This came from my A measurement I had that you make from shoulder to shoulder. I need to go a couple inches smaller next time and I will be happier with the neckline.
But all in all I am happy with the dress. It really does have a bit of a different look when worn than it does on the dress form. I just don't know how to get pictures of myself in the dress to get a good picture to put on here. I tried and it didn't work...I am a sewer, not a photographer.
Note: This is definitely a dress that needs a belt to make it look right! I would never wear this dress without the belt, LOL! I felt like I was in a moo-moo! LOL!
But the dress is very comfortable! I love the material and feel I will get a lot of wear out of this dress this spring and summer. I am ready to go fabric shopping and find some more material to make another one!!
