This dress started with a marvelous find at a local thrift store. I wish I had taken a picture before I ever started, but I didn’t. This is the original dress . . minus one part. The dress is aqua and gold. The top is lace which is embellished with sequins and beads. It has…
So . . . .for some reason, I didn’t take the “before” pictures of this dress. I was really pushing to get dresses done the day I was working on this one, and I think I got distracted. So, apologies for that, but I think you will be able to get the idea. This Prom…
When this dress was donated my daughter and I immediately dubbed it the “Candyland Dress”. The large sequins and bright colors just make a person happy 🙂 The first thing we did, however, was very carefully cut the large sequins off. My daughter slit the sequins to the hole, and then removed them, being careful…
If you’ve been following along, you know that one of my goals when I originally started making ball gowns what that they didn’t scream “modern Prom” and had a historical twist. As production deadlines are looming closer, and time is getting shorter, my goals are quickly disintegrating! Is it a dress? Does it fit? GOOD…
The dresses I have been working on previously have been for the chorus members who are in the opening of the ball (the “Gavotte”) and the middle (the “Ridicule”). This dress is for one of the dancers who will be dancing the “Cinderella Waltz” and the “Ten Minutes Ago Reprise”. I am dressing this…
This dress is similar to some I have done, and yet different. It has separate poofs for sleeves, and I pleated the skirt and the overskirt together, which has pros and cons as I will discuss later. I started with an aqua dress that was quite long–which I was thrilled to find for one of…
If you’ve been following my ball gown creation endeavors, you know that most of the gowns I have made have been a combination of two or three different dresses. This project was a little different in that I only used one dress plus some additional fabric. The dress I found was a royal blue, very…
This week I really tried to crank the costumes out . . . I am beginning to feel the pressure! So many details and so little time! I AM having some fun dresses donated, and it is a challenge to try and use as many of them as possible . . all while I am trying…
I have posted a couple of times previously with suggestions on how to make a simple costume overskirt using elastic and a bias tape casing. The drawback to the elastic version is that it is a little harder to put extra fullness in the back, and while the elastic has stretch, the skirt is more size limited. The bias…
Another red dress??? I know, I am about at the limit of red dresses for the ballroom scene. I spent some time in the Costume Room this week, and assigned the dresses I had to chorus members, so I have my list of “holes”. I am trying to do things the easy way and start…
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