My second dress for the wedding was amazingly quick and easy. I began with a pale tan sheath-style dress, with an almost-corset look top. I took a pair of lace curtains and stitched them together. I measured the skirt length, and folded the top edge of the curtains over at that length. I ran a…
The musical of “Cinderella” (Broadway version) ends with a grand wedding. The Broadway production has a wonderful finale full of pomp & circumstance, and the entire cast is dressed in their wedding finest. These costumes are in shades of whites & soft neutrals. Obviously, we have neither the funds, the time nor the logistics to…
I have been having a really fun time making ballgowns (it would be MORE fun if I weren’t quite so pressured for time lol). The intellectual and creative challenge of being given a dress and “told” to create something is rather addictive. I have likened it to non-sewers as similar to the Food Challenge shows…
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…
This next dress is another one I found on a Buy/Sell/Trade site. The Dad selling them told me that his daughter is 27, so I guess this dress is between 9-11 years old. It is a beige tulle halter top ball-gown style dress. It has a lot of very nice beading and sequins on the…
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…
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