18 Jul 2012

An (almost) finished gown..!

Do you remember the 1790s gown I never finished back in February? The one that didn't get any sleeves (if you do remember - wow!)?

Well, I'm happy to tell you that it has sleeves now. In a completely different fabric, of course, since the problem was that I hadn't accounted for sleeves with the original fabric.

Anyway, the finished sleeves are made up with sheer cotton so it doesn't look to bad with the gown after all!

I asked my husband to take some pictures from our balcony one evening - please forgive the messy hair!

Our English park is lovely this time of the year...

Am I acting natural enough?

Oooh, a daisy!

No full-front picture? you ask.

Sorry - that's just my vanity speaking, I simply looked too dorky in those! I hope to have better pictures taken when I finally wear this gown to an event.

Aaaand that's also when I - hopefully - have made the final touches on the poor thing. I simply must finish my things under a deadline, it seems.

What to do: You can hint a piece of ugly, pink ribbon in the first picture - it has to be replaced with something... white. I also have to add a closure, with a thread button and loop, perhaps. I had planned to pin the gown shut but it's to much stress on the very sheer fabric.

Oh, one last picture! I thought the sleeves looked a little boring, so I did this on the hem:
Mad embroidery skills, I tell you!




8 comments:

  1. Beautiful dress!!! Made for a summer's leisure walk through a garden (or park)...if only the weather in Nothern Europe would finally agree and shower us with sunshine instead of rain.
    I do love the sheer sleeves with the emroidery. The first picture looks very charming and it took me quite a while to figure out where that mentioned pink ribbon is...lol!
    Looking forward to seeing more pictures :)

    Sabine

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  2. Aw, thank you! That is such a lovely compliment, coming from you!

    And let's not get started on the weather... Rain and thunder today. Probably tomorrow, too, and the day after that. And so on!

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  3. It's beautiful, and if I didn't know about the sleeves, I wouldn't know about the sleeves! They look wonderful.

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  4. That's not bad actually -- you could probably get away with wearing that around town and no one would make jokes about Halloween or anything!

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  5. Your dress looks great! What a beautiful fabric! I like your work very much!
    regards
    Kerstin

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  6. Great Job! It feels really good to re-take on a project that is not done and finally bring it to fruition. Cheers.

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  7. This is such a lovely stitch. Does anyone know of an online tutorial to show how it was made?

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